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Tau Kok loud-speaker systems poured out a stream of

anti-British propaganda in support of the "compatriots"

in the urban areas. These broadcasts frequently insisted

that the Hong Kong British Government should accept

various demands made upon it by the C.P.G. authorities

and communist organisations in the Colony.

10.

Following an incident on the 24th June in Sha

Tau Kok, members of its A.P.S.C., fearing arrest, fled

Police had used tear gas to disperse a crowd

to China.

of some hundreds who had surrounded the Sha Tau Kok

Police Post near the border and were stoning it, having

set fire to a Police vehicle. These persons, with the

assistance of the Militia, were undoubtedly responsible

for a more serious incident on the 8th July, 1967,

involving an attack on the same Police Post by a large

crowd, the majority of whom apparently came from Chinese

Territory.

A number were armed and they, together with

others shooting from within Chinese Territory, subjected

Police in the post and Security Forces nearby to a heavy

barrage of small arms fire lasting several hours.

Attempts too were also made by the communist attackers

to blow up the Post with explosive devices. In the course

of this battle five Police Officers were killed and a number

of others wounded.

11.

The "success" of this action, in communist

eyes, subsequently inspired other Chinese Territory

villagers along the border to provoke further serious

incidents at Lo Wu, Man Kam To and Ta Ku Ling. They

became hostile to Security Forces and it became evident

that Militia leaders were the ring leaders, inciting the

villagers to various provocative incidents. These

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