While the tension existing in the western outside-roads area remained at high pitch, the police of the "Special Municipality" chose the hours from 2 to 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon to hold a large-scale in East Fah Wha Village, near a number of foreign residence in the Columbia Road-Amherst Avenue neighbourhood.
The policemen, who were present in large quantities, used blanks, it was understood, but the sudden and spirited crackling of heavy-calibre rifles nevertheless tended to upset the week-end tranquillity of the district, and excited telephone calls were made by many residents to find out what was coming off.
A number of members of the Diplomatic Corps and Consular Body, as well as prominent business-men, have their homes in the vicinity.
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