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REQUEST AND IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS A HSINHUA NEWS AGENCY REPORTER. HE
SHOUTED QUCTE PROTEST UNQUCTE SEVERAL TIMES IN CHINESE, ATTRACTING
A NEW CROWD OF ONLOO: ERS. HE AND HIS COMPANIONS EVENTUALLY WALKED
AWAY AFTER A MORE SENIOR POLICE OFFICER HAD REPEATED THE REQUEST TO
MOVE ON. THESE PERSONS WERE NEITHER ASSAULTED NOR MANHANDLED.
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# AT HIS MEETING WITH THE POLITICAL ADVISER ON 4TH CCTOBER, MR. PUN
TAK HSING FURTHER ALLEGED THAT THE POLICE ATTEMPTED TO ENTER THE
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING ON THE EVENING OF 3RD OCTOBER. THIS ALLEGATION
IS ALSO WITHOUT, FOUNDATION. AS PREVIOUSLY STATED POLICE ACTION WAS
LIMITED TO MOVING CROWDS WHICH WERE BEHAVING IN A DISORDERLY MANNER
OR OBSTRUCTING PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE
TO ENTER THE BANK OF CHINA.
2. AFTER HAVING TAKEN DOWN THE MESSAGE MR. PUN TAK HSING COMMENTED
THAT HE COULD NOT ACCEPT IT. IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE BRITISH SIDE DID
NOT SINCERELY WISH TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. THE FACTS CITED BY THE NONA
WERE COMPLETELY TRUE. IT COULD NOT BE DENIED THAT THE REPORTERS HAD
BEEN ASSAULTED SEMICOLON THEY STILL BORE THEIR WOUNDS. NOR COULD IT
BE SAID THAT THE POLICE HAD NOT ATTEMPTED TO ENTER THE BANK OF CHINA. ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER SAID THAT THE POLITICAL ADVISER HAD UNDERTAKEN TO INVESTIGATE THE ALLEGATIONS MADE BY THE NONA. THIS HAD BEEN DONE AND THE RESULTS WERE IN THE MESSAGE HE HAD JUST CONVEYED.
PROMISED TO PASS ON MR. PUN'S REACTION.
HE
3. THERE HAS STILL BEEN NO PUBLICITY FOR THE MEETING WITH NONA ON 4TH OCTOBER.
CO PLEASE PASS. ROUTINE PEKING.
SIR D. TRENCH
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