CARLLER/CAT
TECIATE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM UNDER 2054
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TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
30 3 OCTOBER 1963
USSED COTELEGRA
MY TELEGR
ON AND COTUBER.
2054 CF 3RD OCTOBER
IPEATED PEKING,
(749)
2046: CHINA NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATIONS IN HONG KONG
SE CONNULLOT FUNCTIONS WERE HELD DURING THE DAY,
G. LAST NIGHT SAW A REPETITION, ON A RATHER SMALLER SCALE, CF GATHERINGS OF CHANTING AND JEERING CURTIUNIST SUPPORTERS (WHO
CRIVED RATHER SUDDENLY 13 SMALL GROUPS) AROUND THE BANK OF CHINA. UNIFORMED DANK OFFICIALS KEPT THE CROWD HOVING AND APPEARED TO BE
VITO TO PREVENT ANY LARGE BUILD-UP, A FEW FIREWORKS WERE LET OFF
THERE WAS SOME SLIGHT DISRUPTION OF TRAFFIC,
DISRUPTION OF TRAFFIC, RICH QUICKLY CLEAR -ED, TWC RIDIC HONG KONG REPORTERS WERE SUBJECTED TO SOME HARASS-
ENT. A POLIOS COMPANY PATROLLING THE AREA NET CHLY NINCA HOSTILITY
THE HAND-CORE EACUPS OF SOME 27 YOUTHS. APART FROM THIS THERE
. NO PHYSICAL CONTACT BETWEEN POLICE AND CELEBRATORS, AND NO
THINGS TO THE CROWDS WERE REQUIRED. ONCE AGAIN, THESE GATHERINGS GULD HAVE LED TO A SERIOUS INCIDENT, BUT THIS WAS AGAIN AVOIDED CY RESTRAINED POLICE ACTION.
3. CHEUNG CHAU ISLAND AS THE SCENE OF A LARGE-SCALE COMUNIST
SELEDRATION. DURING THE DAY 200 HONG KONG REGISTERED JUNKS FYING C... FLAGS RETURNED TO CHEUNG CHAU HARBOUR FROM CHINESE
TRODUTORY (THESE ARE JUIKS BEGISTERED FOR FISHING, BOTH HONO
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