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raids, In a swoop on hut in Yuen Long Village in new territories police
seized a bomb and box containing firecrackers. One man was arrested.

Only two bombs found on Hong Kong Island this morning but they were
disposed of by Army ammunition experts.

Stock Exchange correspondent of English afternoon Daily China Mail
reports widespread gains in stock market. He says market opened strong
this morning when shares leapt over a wide front.

Gains were seen in leading favourites as well as in quieter

shares.

"Marmet was brisk and active throughout" he said.

A British Army Commander said to-night that presence of British troops
along Hong Kong border was not (repeat not) result of fear of invasion
by Chinese Army but to protect border from attacks irresponsible
elements from other side.

Brigadier Martin Commander 48th Gurkha Infantry Brigade said "we do
not (repeat not) believe from what we have seen during last two months
on border that Chinese Army want trouble anymore than we do"

He was speaking at dinner given by new territories civic leaders for
300 Army police personnel serving along frontier. Informs.

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There were no (repeat no) incidents last night following Governors
return. Earlier in the morning, two bombs, one genuine and one fake,
were found outside Government House. The real one was detonated by Army
Ammunition Expert.

Sir David [? word omitted] on his return that Britain has shown a great
awareness of Hong Kong's problems and is anxious to help.

Problems now facing Hong Kong, Sir David said, will be discussed
further when Lord Shepherd visits Colony later this year.

When asked whether he had brought back any new plans. about
labour reforms for Hong Kong, Sir David said London is looking for
qualified people to look into situation here and to assist the drafting
of new labour legislation.

Governor was welcomed back by Government officials and local
dignitories.

Two English newspapers both carried editorials of welcome for
Sir David. South China Morning Post said "that no violence or demonstra-
tions marred his return [?word omitted] was pleasing though the bomb
found outside Government House yesterday suggests a few hotheads still
want to prolong tension. Hong Kong is in better shape today than three
months ago and local confidence has not sagged but strengthened.
Overseas opinion, however, has suffered, in some cases from malicious
exaggera- tions (particularly by some of our neighbours) and elsewhere
from a failure of the world Press to tell its readers of the speedy
resilience of the Hong Kong-man-in-the-street to these adversities. We
could well do with a concentrated advertising campaign in overseas
newspapers and television to reassure businessmen, importers and
tourists that Hong Kong, like Johnny Walker, is still going strong.

Hong Kong Tiger Standard said Sir David will find that relations between
Government and the people have improved in his absence. This is a good
thing, and he will have to guard against regression in this area of
Government.

In the past officials have been to remote and often rude to the
public. This is changing, and it is important that Sir David maintains
the trend.

Anyone who thinks that Sir David has easy days ahead would be
thinking badly. He will need to understand new and difficult problems as
well as to be understood.

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Many non-Communist Chinese newspapers gave front page treatment to the
Governor's arrival at the airport, the statement he made at a Press
conference at Kait Tak and his meeting with the community leaders and
the public at Queen's Pier.

They gave different

their reports.

emphasis to Sir David's statement in

Britain fully supports Hong Kong, said the bold-typed headlines
of Kung Sheung and Tin Tin Yat Pos;Lord Shepherd, British Minister of
State of the Commonwealth Office, to visit Hong Kong next month, Sing
Tao Jih Pao particularly pointed out; the strength of the British
garrison in Hong Kong adequate, Wah Kiu Yat Po stressed; plan for
suppression of disturbances still confidential, Sing Pao Daily News
emphasized; Governor guarantees continue to pursue prosperity and
progress, Ming Pao pronounced and Express mentioned specifically
Governor is to do his utmost to maintain law and order.

The Governor's disclosure that death penalty for crimes
involving bombs was not discussed in London; that a labour expert is
coming; and that he does not intend to contact members of the illegal
Struggle Committee and does not know whether London is negotiating with
Peking on the situation in Hong Kong received good publicity.

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Brigadier Martin said there were

no (repeat no) signs whatsoever that Chinese Army had any aggressive
intensions against Hong Kong.

In fact he said Chinese soldiers had been seen on number of occasions
trying to restrain their unruly civilians.

He believed that these civilians on other side of border had tried and
might try again to provoke British troops into opening fire in order to
increase tension on border and bring fear to people of Hong Kong.

Brigadier Martin said border is now remarkably quiet part from
occasional incidents of a very minor nature.

He also disclosed that army strength on border had been
considerably reduced and that police have already taken over some of
their normal duties on frontier ends informs.

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General Pearson called to see me this afternoon

after the completion of the UNISON exercise.

He said he had kept a very close eye on Hong Kong

and felt some relief that things were now easier there.

He went on to express the view that earlier, after the

onset of the crisis, there had been a certain amount of

friction between the civil and military authorities but

he thought these difficulties were now all straightened

out. The fact was that General Worsley was a splendid

fighting soldier. He had plenty of dash and guts but

was not of the contemplative temperament which could

settle down to a long period of psychological warfare,

and found it difficult to resist the temptation to

strike back when action could be unfortunately

provocative.

Nevertheless the military had now been

assigned a definite role and his impression was that

things were working quite smoothly and, curiously, that

General Worsley and Mr. Gass seemed to co-operate well

together, perhaps precisely because they were such

opposites. He would certainly like to pay a tribute

to the efficiency of the machine in Hong Kong which he

felt had stood up remarkably well under conditions of

crisis and operated extremely smoothly. There was no

doubt that we had won most of the battles so far (even

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if we had lost a trick or two at the frontier) but the

question was who would win the war in the end, and

He accepted

no one knew what the Chinese game was.

that we could only hang on in the hope that if there had to be any
withdrawal, either before or at the time when

the leases fell in, we could do so with honour to

ourselves and with justice to the safety of the millions

in Hong Kong for whom we were responsible.

5.6.

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12 September, 1967.

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General Pearson also came to see me and said very much the same thing as
he had said to Sir Saville Garner. I made a point of asking General
Pearson for his candid opinion of the way in which Mr. Gass has been
conducting affairs during the time he has been Acting Governor,
mentioning the allegations circulating in some quarters in London and in
Hong Kong that he was not up to the job. General Pearson said that he,
General Carver and all concerned in Singapore believe that Mr. Gass has
been doing an excellent job. They felt that he had acted with coolness,
courage and sound judgment, and had complete confidence in him.

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22nd September, 1967

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A. POLICE REPORT

Week 6/13th

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Teek 31 Lug/

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4th May

1. CASUALTIES

Police

killed

6

injured

4

5

130

Military killed

1

injured

12

Other Uniformed

Services

killed

injured

Opposition killed

injured

Others

killed

injured

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Unclaimed Bodies

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Total rests

85

95

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23

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1643

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7

4

260

Convicted

30

37

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5

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235

195

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18

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31

Deportation Orlers

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Unlawful Assembly

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6

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446

232

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Banks

Cinemas/Theatres

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