TNAG-0292-FCO40-328-Disturbances-in-Hong-Kong-bomb-attacks-and-threats-1971 — Page 103

Date, :. 5/4/7/

(b)

CODENTIA

(c) LOCATION

CONFIDENTIAL

Suspected Bombs

Sitrep at : 08.00/42.00/46.00

(d) TEAM SENT

(a) SERIAL

TIME REPORTED

203

041725

49 Hong Keung Street, 1st Floor Staircase.

EOD

CP

DCP/Ops

DCP/Admin

DCI (8)

To:

DSB

ACP/Ops

(e)

RESULT & TIME

PASSED

1800 hrs.

CPIO (2) -SO/Ops/'A'

SSI/Ops SB/Ops

D.S.

Military (3) File: CP/CON/21 13

Sheet: 42

Mistaken report.

Dismantled.

204

042052

0/s Central Government Offices, Lower Albert Street.

EOD/HKI

2116 hrs

CID/C found it to

be a listaken

report.

205

042121

Wu Hu Street near Chatham Rd

EOD/K

2205 hrs

(#)

REMARKS

Newspaper parcel 4" x 4" x 2". No slogans.

Plastic bag containing rubbish.

Newspaper parcel 2" x 4". Tired

Dismantled by EOD❘ up with wire.

found to be

Mistaken report

Dismantled

ว

206

042200

Osborne Barracks, Waterloo Road.

EOD/K

2235 hrs.

Empty cardboard 15" x 12" x 6*.

Mistaken report

207

042305

Inside Goodays Restaurant Waterloo Road

EOD/K

!

208

042340

Connaught Road, Central. G.P.0. side door by the pillar.

NOTE:

EOD/HKI

EOD visited scene No trace of any object. nothing found.

Malicious/False/

Detonated at 0010 hrs by EOD Mistaken/False.

A parcel 4" x 6" wrapped in newspaper containing wood shavings. No slogans.

At 041535 hrs at the Yu Wing Construction site, 24-25 Canal Road, West, a suspected World War II

• bomb was found. Army assistants requested as B.O. Ewins was sick. At 041622 hrs army Ballistic Officer Major Osborne reported that the suspected bomb was in fact a hot water cylinder.

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