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Telno 1625
2 November 1967
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Your telegram 2227
The number of bombs reached a climax on the 30/31st with 177 reports and 44 true bombs, then declined to 44 reports with no true on the 31st/1st and 53 reports (5 true) on the 1st/2nd.
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The Communist Press reported the bomb spate as a blow against Hong Kong Week, which is described as an attempt to alienate Hong Kong Chinese from their Socialist mother country. Right Wing and neutral newspapers have refuted this argument, and see the success of Hong Kong Week as further evidence of Hong Kong's recovery from its recent troubles.
3. On 30th, Left-wing seamen made a brief demonstration at the Marine Office against the bad reports given on discharge to three crew members of the 'Antarctica'.
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40 On the border there was a demonstration and grenade- throwing incident at Man Kam To (my telegram 1596).—
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On 31st the tempo of bomb-planting dropped considerably. 16 Right-wing functions were held to mark Chiang Kai-shek's birthday without incident. At 1930 two police constables searching a suspect outside the Communist commercial Press in Central district were attacked by a crowd from the building. The suspect was shot and wounded and 14 persons arrested.
6. On the same day, a hole was made in the frontier fence at Ta Kwu Ling by C.T. farmers to remove their rice narvest. At Nam Hang two persons in C.T. threw stones at a Gurkha patrol.
7. On 1st, in Kowloon at 1330 about 100 cyclists from the Communist Heung to Middle School rode through the streets displaying banners calling on people to buy Chinese goods. At 1800 in North Kowloon a crowd of students from the same school led by a woman teacher held a demonstration, and surrounded two policemen, 53 persons, including the teacher, were arrested and charged with intimidating assembly and one student with assaulting a policeman.
At 1430 in Stanley Prison, a number of left-wing prisoners approached the Commissioner of prisons requesting more food and winter clothing. The Commissioner pointed out that food was in accordance with laid down scales and that heavy clothing would be issued when necessary. Later, when being transferred from the workshops to cells, a group of about 50 prisoners offered resistance and attacked the prison staff, who had to use force to subdue and return them to the cells. One prisoner was admitted to hospital with head injuries, and 10 were treated at the prison.
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