TNAG-0292-FCO40-328-Disturbances-in-Hong-Kong-bomb-attacks-and-threats-1971 — Page 59

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27/4.

In your telegram No. 257, you asked for our considered views on the recent spate of "bombing", and these of course we have been preparing. The situation is a complex one, with possible dangers in it, and, without wishing to be any way alarmist, I have felt it right to send you a full report both for your own information and, if you think fit, to bring Murray MacLehose up to date.

2.

Enclosed with this are:-

(a) S.B. assessments;

(b) an analysis of each incident;

(c) Press summaries of material on:-

(d)

(i)

the "bombing"; and

(ii) the release of confrontation

prisoners which took place at the same time as the "bombing' started.

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S.H.A's assessment of opinion from other than press sources on the release of the prisoners.

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