The first cases of lorries fetching foodstuffs for the British troops being stopped today occurred this morning, when two lorries left the British Minutes British troops in their Great Western Road barracks were placed on "stand-by" orders at 6.07 p.m. yesterday, when it became known that an undetermined number of armed plain clothes men, believed to have been members of the "Ta Tao" police, were reported walking up and down Edinburgh Road, and a party of plain-clothes and uniformed officers from Bubbling Well Police Station were summoned to the scene by two C.P.C.'s whose order to the armed men, to leave the Gettlement road was reportedly Hang soon as the steel-vested officers ignored.
arrived on the scene however, the men, two of them only were armed as was ascertained later, ran into Šileyway 469, Edinburgh Road, where "Ta Tao" police station is located.
The "stand-by" order was cancelled at about pin. when it 6.30 was found that were conditions normal.
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