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3. ON 27 SEPTEMBER, FOLLOWING THE ARREST OF THE CREW OF A PUBLIC LIGHT DUS, A CROWD GATHERED OUTSIDE YUEN LONG POLICE STATION IN THE NEW TERRITORIES AND A NUMBER OF PUBLIC LIGHT BUSES WERE ABANDONED' ODSTRUCTING ROADS IN THE AREA. POLICE WERE EVENTUALLY FORCED TO FIRE TEAR SMOKE TO DISPERSE THE CROWD AND 15 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH OFFENCES ARISING OUT OF THE INCIDENT. THE FOLLOWING DAY PUBLIC LIGHT BUS DRIVERS THROUGHOUT THE COLONY STOPPED WORK FOR SEVERAL HOURS IN PROTEST AGAINST ENFORCEMENT OF THE PUBLIC LIGHT DUS REGULATIONS (TELEGRAMS 765 AND 769). ALTHOUGH SEVERAL COMMUNIST SUPPORTERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE ORIGINAL INCIDENT IT WAS ENTIRELY SPONTANEOUS. ON 23 SEPTEMBER THE COMMUNIST MOTOR TRANSPORT WORKERS' UNION SENT REPRESENTATIVES TO PUBLIC LIGHT DUS TERMINI TO EXPLAIN THAT THE STOPPAGE WAS HOT CALLED BY THE UNION AND TO PERSUADE DRIVERS TO RETURN TO WORK. THE UNION HAS ALSO REISSUED A DIRECTIVE CONCERNING INCIDENTS WITH POLICE SEMICOLON WHILE DRIVERS ARE PERMITTED TO ASSIST OTHERS DEING 'PERSECUTED' THEY MUST NOT BECOME INVOLVED IN VIOLENCE OR MUST THEY CAUSE OBSTRUCTION WITH THEIR
VEHICLES.
4. THE LAST IMPRISONED COMMUNIST NEWS WORKER WAS RELEASED ON 3
NKKI/12 OCTOBER (TELEGRAH 731). THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE LOCAL COMMUNIST
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REACTION SO FAR TO THIS EVENT OR THE SUBSEQUENT C.P.G. LIFTING OF
RESTRICTIONS ON GREY.
5. ON 22 SEPTEMBER A GROUP OF M.P.S TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS AT LOWU ATTRACTED A SHALL GROUP OF SELLICERET FARMERS WHO HAD TO DE CALMED
FEH 4/1 EY POLICE (TELEGRA: 753). ONE STONING INCIDENT OCCURRED AT SHATAUKOK
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AND FIREWORK ROCKETS HAVE BEEN LET OFF IN THE AREA ON SIX OCCASIONS.
[sic 10 DAMAGE OR CASUALTIES WERE SUSTAINED. SINCE -3 SEPTEMBER PASSENGERS CROSSING INTO CHINA AT LOWU HAVE NOT BEEN REQUIRED TO CHANT SLOGANS
A PRACTICE WHICH HAS BEEN PREVALENT SINCE 1967.
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