The barriers were built by the Public Works Department in the} Bubbling Well Piro Station, whose watch-tower grimly overlooks the dosloged "city." 'The utmost secrecy was observed in the preparations, and then the 'Couneit suddenly struck, in the early hours of yesterday morn~ Ing All gates opening on Munteipal rods were barred shortly after mid-hight with the exception of the main' yate in Vu Yuen Road, which was flowed (0 be Kept open till 9 am. S0.a8 to allow office workers, using fautomoblles to leave. The only entrance now open Is a gate the size of an" ordinary. door which connects with a narrow dirt road in Chinese territory, behind the petrol pump In Bubbling Well Road. It is possible, also" to. ani or, eave the Forbidden City" thro ie, Chinese shops in Vu Yuen Rond—it the shopkeepers permit. the barricades are tall, strong, well-built affairs reflecting' favour ably on the P.W.D. as a unit of the S.V.C. The wood is breast-high and is\ surmounted by an effective! tangle of barbed wire, Bach barrlcade, further, is securely anchored in the ground, making a sally well-righ impossible.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.