En Clair
HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
Tel Unnumbered
14 October 1967
TOP COPY
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IN
a. 53
UNCLASSIFIED
PRESS
140730
Attention Glover.
16 06.07.
HWA/17
In Hong Kong a police constable and an eighteen year old youth were killed while six police officers, two army ballistic officers and twentyfour civilians were injured in bomb incidents on both sides of harbour last Friday night.
The injured police officers were two inspectors, two corporals and two auxiliary police constables while the ballistic officers were army corporals.
The police constable who was killed was on cordon duty in Gloucester Road near Tonnochy Road when a bomb exploded. A police inspector and a corporal who were with him were also injured.
The youth was injured in a bomb incident at Hennessy Road. He died in hospital early this Saturday morning.
In the same area about ten people including two auxiliary police constables and two army corporals who were members of a ballistics team were hurt when a bomb was thrown from a building and landed on a tram.
In Kowloon a police inspector and ten other people were injured in the Yaumati area when two bombs were hurled at them, one from a building and another by a man from a crowd which gathered in the area.
The bomb thrower was later arrested by police and is expected to be charged with attempted murder.
In Shamshuipo district seven men were arrested following a demonstration by a crowd of about four hundred in Cheung Fat Street. Some of the people in the crowd were planting bombs in the area.
In making the arrests police had to open fire when one of seven men tried to snatch a revolver from a detective.
Two of the arrested men received gun shot wounds and were taken to hospital for treatment.
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