EN CLAIR
HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
Telno 1827
6 December 1967
UNCLASSIFIED
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No.1827 of 6 December. Repeated for information to Peking.
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My telegram No. 1824.
Detailed investigation now reveals that at no time during the disposal of the two fake bombs was there any difficulty in keeping the area in the immediate vicinity of the bombs clear and no use was made of chemical mace. It is probably relevant that after the disposal a poster was put up outside the left wing Nanyang Theatre alleging that the police had deliberately pulled the bombs to the vicinity of the theatre, had in exploding them damaged a statue of Chairman Mao and sprayed employees in the theatre with poison gas. The whole of this therefore seems to be an attempt to fabricate an incident.
Sir D. Trench
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
C.O. H.K.D.
I. & G.D.
News Dept.
F.O. F.E.D.
J.I.R.D.
J.I.P.G.D. News Dept.
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