CONFIDENTIALHKA 177/1
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062121 MDHIAN 0663
CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 2410
OF 251209Z SEPTEMBER 92
INFO IMMEDIATE UKMIS NEW YORK, PEKING
TOP COPY Q DIST?
مير
UKMIS NEW YORK: FOR SECRETARY OF STATE'S PARTY ON ARRIVAL
INCURSION BY CHINESE SECURITY VESSEL IN HONG KONG WATERS
SUMMARY
1. WE HAVE COMPLAINED TO NCNA THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT A SERIOUS INCIDENT INVOLVING CHINESE ARMED UNIFORMED OFFICERS, ONE OF WHOM THREATENED WITH A GUN A HONG KONG POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS PHOTOGRAPHING THE INCIDENT AND DEMANDED THE FILM TO BE HANDED OVER. NO SHOTS WERE FIRED AND NO ONE WAS HURT BUT THE PRESS HAVE PICKED UP THE DETAILS. REQUEST THAT PEKING ALSO RAISE THE MATTER.
DETAIL
2. AT 1320 THE HONG KONG MARINE POLICE WERE ALERTED BY AN EMERGENCY CALL FROM A HONG KONG FISHING VESSEL. IT WAS BEING BOARDED BY CHINESE SECURITY OFFICERS WITHIN HONG KONG WATERS, OFF THE NINE PIN ISLANDS. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE SCENE THE MARINE POLICE FOUND TWO UNIFORMED AND ARMED CHINESE OFFICIALS ON BOARD THE FISHING VESSEL. A CHINESE SPEEDBOAT (TAI FEI), NUMBER GONG BIN 1207 CAME ALONGSIDE AND DEMANDED THE RELEASE OF THE TWO OFFICERS. THE CHINESE REFUSED TO GIVE ANY DETAILS OF THEIR IDENTITIES. THE OFFICERS ON THE FISHING VESSEL WERE NOT RELEASED AND THE SPEEDBOAT LEFT THE SCENE. WE BELIEVE THE SPEEDBOAT OPERATES OUT OF ZHU HAI.
3. ONE OF THE CHINESE OFFICERS LEFT BEHIND ON THE FISHING VESSEL OBSERVED THAT HE WAS BEING PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE RHKP. HE POINTED HIS GUN AT THE MARINE POLICE OFFICER AND DEMANDED THAT HE HAND OVER HIS CAMERA. THIS THE RHKP OFFICER DID. THE FILM WAS THEN TAKEN OUT BY THE CHINESE OFFICER AND THROWN INTO THE SEA.
4. THE POLICE COMMUNICATED THROUGH THE BORDER LIAISON NET AND THE SPEEDBOAT RETURNED. AT 1540 THE THREE OFFICERS WERE HANDED OVER AND DEPARTED FOR CHINESE WATERS.
5. AT 1700 WE CALLED THE NCNA AND EXPRESSED GRAVE CONCERN. NOT
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