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IMMEDIATE HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TELNO 784
20 JUNE. 1968
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ADDRESSED CO TELEGRAM NO. 784 OF 20TH JUNE REPEATED PEKING AND
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PEKING TELEGRAM NO. 418: CHEUNGSHAWAN.
1. 13TH JUNE.
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ABOUT 500 PEOPLE GATHERED IN THE PLAYGROUND, SANG AND CHANTED REVOLUTIONARY SONGS BUT DISPERSED QUICKLY WHEN ORDERED OUT BY A POLICE RIOT COMPANY AT 2030. THE PLAYGROUND WAS CLEARED AND LOCKED. FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS SMALL CROWDS FORMED NEARBY AND HARASSED POLICE PATROLS, OCCASIONALLY THROWING STONES AND BOTTLES AND SETTING FIRE TO BASKETS IN THE ROAD. LATER SİX SMALL GROUPS GATHERED, FOUR DISPERSING OF THEIR OWN ACCORD WHILE TWO WERE BROKEN UP BY POLICE WITH TWO ARRESTS. AT ABOUT 2300 A CROWD OF ABOUT 300 FORMED NEAR THE PLAYGROUND SINGING AND CHANTING. POLICE MADE 12 ARRESTS IN DISPERSING THEM. 4 ARRESTED. WERE DETAINED IN HOSPITAL, NONE SERIOUSLY HURT. NO POLICE CASUALTIES. NEITHER FIREARMS NOR TEAR SMOKE WERE USED. ALL WAS
QUIET BY MIDNIGHT.
2. 14TH JUNE.
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BY 2100 A CROWD OF 1,000 HAD GATHERED IN A WIDE CIRCLE AND BEGAN CHANTING. A POLICE RIOT COMPANY CLEARED AND LOCKED THE PLAYGROUND. AGAIN SMALL GROUPS HARASSED POLICE PATROLS IN NEARBY STREETS IN THE SAME PATTERN AS THE PREVIOUS NIGHT THOUGH MORE INTENSIVELY. BY 2330 THE AREA HAD BEEN CLEARED WITHOUT USE OF FIREARMS OR TEAR SMOKE. 16 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED INCLUDING TWO STUDENTS FROM A NEARBY COMMUNIST SCHOOL, 5 RECEIVING MINOR INJURIES. 6 POLICE OFFICERS WERE SLIGHTLY INJURED.
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