Ref:
CEN/13/1803
Special Branch,
67
9/251
Hong Kong Políco.
21st November, 1967.
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63 -1 DEC1967
INITIAL REPORT ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ABDUCTION. HWAY//
DETENTION AND ESCAPE FROM CHINA OF S/INSP. F.G. XYIGH
INPRODUCTION
At 10.45 hours on the 14th October, 1967, a group of 20 Parasts and coolies in the lairage area in Man Kam To: (B.T.) convoyed a messago to the effect that they wished to discuss with the British Authorities the question of removing the wire fence in the fields (orocted in 1952); in the Man Kam To area. At 13.40 hours Senior Inspector of Polico F.G. Knight of E.U./N.T. went towards the lairage area to talk to the farmors. His brief was to tell them that the matter could be discussed at the District Office (Taipo) if they cared to send representatives. In the course of talking to the farmers Knight went beyond the checkpoint to recover his subordinates and a Polico vehicle that had carlier moved into the lairage area, by mistake. While Knight was talking to the farmers, the vehicle and its occupants withdrow to safety. Knight himself was subsequently surrounded by the farmers who at this stage adopted a threatening attitude
towards him.
2.
While Knight continued to talk to the farmers during the afternoon, they passed across a number of messages asking that 2 representatives of tho District Administration should go forward to discuss the wire issue. They were informed that such discussions could be arranged once Mr. Knight had been released. (During this period one Company of C.C.A. were deployed near the Man Kam To Bridge in C.T. @wo recoiless rifles were observed).
3.
Ab 17.45 hours, Knight was moved by the farmers to a point some
Shortly forwards 15 yards from the Man Kam To Bridge, but still in 3.T. D.C.N.T., who had arrived in the meantime, bogan talking from behind the
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