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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
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Press
3 November 1967
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030800. Attention Glover.
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On Hong Kong Island four people were arrested by police last Thursday night for planting suspicious objects on roads. Three of them were arrested in Des Voeux Road Central while the fourth an eighteen year old youth was arrested in North Point.
A boy was also arrested in North Point for writing slogans
on wall of a government building.
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In Kowloon two objects were hurled into Wong Tai Sin police station compound. They exploded and caused slight injuries to three women who were passing by outside the station.
Early in evening a crowd of about fifty people shouting Mao's quotations gathered at junction of Nathan Road and Dundas Street in Mongkok. A banner to which six suspicious objects were attached was put across Nathan Road. dispersed before police arrived.
However the crowd
Shortly afterwards another crowd was reported to have gathered outside an emporium at junction of Nathan Road and Nelson Street in Mongkok. Police, sent there to investigate, saw no sign of a crowd but eight suspicious objects were found to have been left on the road.
Traffic in the area had been interrupted for about half
an hour.
Altogether one hundred and thirteen objects were found on both sides of the harbour between eight a.m. and midnight yesterday.
Of the forty-six found on Hong Kong Island thirteen were genuine bombs. In Kowloon seven of the sixty-seven objects were genuine.
Informs.
Sir D. Trench
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