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Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No. 1511 of
26 August.
Repeated for information to POLAD Singapore, Canberra, Washington.
Sitrep as at 26 1000 border.
At Lo Wu Bridge on 24 August a group of farmers demonstrated outside the
Immigration Office, angered perhaps in part by the presence of a group
of visiting correspondents
within.
2. Six farmers succeeded in getting inside, seized a tape recorder,
jostled and harangued those reporters who failed to
Shortly get away
and then returned to Chinese territory. after a threatening crowd, some
forty strong and including a number of women, assembled outside the wire
compound: they were equipped with improvised masks and buckets to put
over tear gas projectiles. Tear gas proving ineffective, the Army threw
a white phosphorous smoke grenade. Three farmers were slightly burned on
the legs and the crowd dispersed.
During the
incident C.C.A. were observed to be holding back a crowd of about 200 on
the other side of the bridge. C.C.A. positions in the area wre manned.
3. During the afternoon, the C.C.A. twice intervened to prevent sizeable
groups trying to cross into British territory. On the second occasion
the crowd turned on and beat up one soldier and the C.C.A. group
withdrew. A senior officer had toured the area earlier and it is
possible that he had ordered that the civilians be given greater freedom
of action.
In the early evening, there were three further incidents with groups of
civilians armed with meat hooks, pitchforks and stones moving across the
bridge against our positions.
Petrol bombs were thrown at the Immigration Office damaging
the roof.
The Gowds were dispersed with tear gas and smoke. Several short bursts
of machine gun-fire were heard from Chinese territory. No fall of shot
was seen.
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On 25 August at 1145 the P.L.A. at Lo u broadcast a
that the Hong Kong Government must remove barriers and message allow
free movement otherwise the P.L.A. would take action. An immediate reply
was broadcast to the effect that the bridge was, as always, open to
peaceful workers.
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announcement was made that the farmers were coming across fact some
seventy did cross and go to their fields.
On their return at about 1800 a ritual demonstration w13 neld outside
the Immigration Office but, assisted on their way by tear gas and smoke
grenades, the farmers quickly dispersed. There was one burst of machine
gun-fire over Lo Wn Police Station from C.T. during this incident.
During the late evening three explosive devices, possibl. grenades, were
thrown at the Immigration. Bunluing, damaging the roof and there were
three fairly truculent Chinese broad- casts, In the morning, on 26
August, no workers crossed the bridge and there was a further trucnlent
broadcast by the PLA demanding apologies and compensation.
50 At Man Kam To during the evening of 24 August, groups of labourers
carrying meat hooks removed most of the wire harric. crected across the
bridge on 11 Angust. They were dispersed eventually with tear gas and
smoke. A number of bursts of machine gun-fire were directed over the
heads of our troops while the crowds were being dispersed. Fire was
apparently controlled by a member of the crowd with a yellow flag and
was " synchronized with the throwing of tear gas grenades by our troops.
There is some evidence that it was the militia Pathan than the C.C.A.
who fired. One improvised bomb was thrown.
On 25 August shortly after 1400, farmers began to collect at the bridge
following a brodcast by the Chinese asking us to let them across. The
Military appreciation was that trouble was imminent. It had already been
decided that the bridge would be opened on 26 August. In the
circumstances it was decided to open it immediately. The barrier was
cleared by 1610 and a party or labourers came across to work returning
later without incident.
There were no further events during the night, and on the morning of 26
August 30 farmers came across peacefully to work: in the fielas.
So far no produce has arrived, however, but lorries are moving into the
area.
6. Food supplies.
There is still a serious shortage of pigs. Chino which built up to over
3,000 on Wednesday yesterday. As a result prices remained high. fish
supplies are improving "
Supplies om slumped again
Vegetables und
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can to keep supplies moving.
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An ammunition expert of Royal Army Ordnance Corps was
fatally injured this Monday afternoon when he tried to dismantle a
Communist planted bomb on a hilltop which turned out to be a booby trap.
He had been sent to the top of Lion Rock in Kowloon to
dismantle five boards with Chinese characters and three flags connected
by
by a wire.
Whilst taking down contraption there was an explosion and the ammunition
expert, a sergeant was thrown two (repeat two) hundred feet down a
cliff.
In an effort to save his life, a doctor from British Military Hospital
was airlifted by helicopter to hilltop to give him treatment on the
spot.
He died before arrival of Mountain Rescue team.
At noon police found in a rubbish dump two (repeat two)
baskets containing weapons similar to those found in recent police raids
on Union and other Communist occupied premises.
The weapons comprise seventy-one (repeat seventy- one)
knives and three hundred and three (repeat three zero three) choppers.
They were found by caretaker of a building in Quarry Bay.
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Economist Intelligence Unit in United Kingdom has been commissioned by
Trade Development Council to carry out survey of present and future
sales potential in Europe of twenty one (repeat twenty one) categories
of Hong Kong products.
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This is part of aggressive promotional programme aimed at
strengthening Hong Kong's market position in Europe particularly in
Common Market Countries.
T.D.C. Executive Director Mr. R.G.L. Oliphant told Press
conference today there was need to establish Hong Kong's trading
position in Common Market countries should Britain eventually join
European Economic community.
At same time Council is launching an information campaign in Europe and
United States to offset adverse publicity about Hong Kong due to
exaggerated reports on disturbances.
Council is sponsoring surveys, lecture tours, talks and the sending of
information material overseas.
Businessmen visiting other countries will be asked to give
interviews to Press, radio and television and talks to organisations in
order to give a true picture of conditions in Hong Kong.
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Police in five-hour search of eight (repeat eight) huts in squatter area
at Mount Butler on Hong Kong Island this morning found one live bomb
quantity of black powder two watches and some devices for making time
bombs as well as quantity of chemicals believed to be used for making
explosives. Eleven people were taken to Police Station for questioning.
In afternoon Police arrested twenty-one year old man and seized small
quantity of gunpowder hemicals iron nails and other apparatus during
raid on premises in Kowloon City area.
Police are investigating report that six prominent Hong Kong
residents had been marked by local agitators to be murdered.
The "blacklist" was published in edition of underground
Communist broadsheet according to newspaper reports.
Six were stated to be Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs Paul
Tsui, Legislative Councillors Y K Kan and Li Fook Shu, Pang Fu Wah
Chairman of Heung Yee Kuk Commatoos Cha publisher of Ming Pao newspaper
and Luk Hoi on Editor of Truth Daily.
Y.K. Kan yesterday morning eceived a parcel containing small
explosive device. Parcel which was addressed to Y.K.Kan at his office
was later removed by Police.
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No. 1322 of 30 August.
Repeated for information to POLAD Singapore, Washington and Canberra.
(40+)
My telegram No. 1311:
Sitrep as at 301200.
The deaths of an army bomb disposal NCO, of a Chinese injured in a bomb
incident on 25 August and of the second of the men whose car was set on
fire brings to six the number of deaths from terrorist attacks in the
last few weeks. News sheets have listed six prominent Chinese as targets
for assassination. Police raids have resulted in
the discovery of a bomb making centre. One rioter was killed in a
demonstration in Kowloon on 29 August. The border has been quiet. Food
deliveries continue to be erratic with the bulk coming in by road.
2. There were sixteen genuine bombs out of seventy-six reports on 28 and
29 August. On 28 August a bomb disposal NCO investigating flag poles and
notices erected on Lion Rock, overlooking Kowloon, detonated a charge
and was thrown over the cliff and killed. Three other charges were
subsequently dealt with. A police raid on Hong Kong Island discovered a
bomb making centre but no arrests of men directly connected with the
centre were made. In this and other raids, however, 16 people were
arrested.
3. News sheets have listed six prominent Chinese as terrorist targets.
They include the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, two Legislativé
Councillors, two Right Wing newspapermen and the Chairman of the Heung
Yee Kuk, the new Territories Consultative Committee. One Councillor has
been sent a parcel bomb and has also been named as a traitor by
broadcasts from the Chinese side at Lo Wu.
4.
A demonstration against the Court decision in the newspaper sedition
case was held in a resettlement area in Kowloon yesterday night. There
were reports that co-ordinated demonstrations were to be held on both
sides of the harbour but this did not happen. During the Kowloon
disturbances, one ringleader, who was seen to be carrying a bomb, was
shot and killed. Two bombs were found near his body. The crowd was then
dispersed with tear gas.
5. The border has been quiet. The Contractor's representative engaged in
building the new police post at Man Kam To was ordered to stop work by
labourers from the Chinese side and has not been seen since. The bridge
is open for supplies and the bulk of the pigs coming into the Colony now
use this route. Sea supplies have been well down and there have been no
rail deliveries although one train per day
continues to arrive from Canton,
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The border remained quiet yesterday.
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A man was killed when police fired a Greener shot at a crowd at Tung Tau
Resettlement Estate in Kowloon.last night.
At about eight o'clock, two crowds - the first numbered about two
hundred people and the second about six to eight hundred gathered in the
Tung Tau area. They painted slogans and put up posters.
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