The Council's policy regarding squatters was not dueeelly snvolvod in the affair, which was precipitated by the determination of the Public Works Department to demolish an unauthorized addition to a straw hut off Chaoyang Road. An inspector of the P.W.D. and some coolies, company vd by a small party of police, went to the site at 040 am, and were met by a large group of hui-dwellers, reinforced by several known troublemakers and others of the loafer type,
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