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SOME 400 ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATORS IN GEYLANG FLED IN PANIC WHEN THE POLICE OPENED FIRE ON THEM AFTER THEY ATTACKED A SMALL BAND OF POLICEMEN WITH STONES, BRICKS AND OTHER MISSILES. THE MOB HAD DEFIED ORDERS TO DISPERSE. THE INCIDENT WAS THE MOST SERIOUS OF THREE COMMUNIST-ORGANISED DEMONSTRATIONS IN GEYLANG, ALJUNIED ROAD AND CHINATOWN IN WHICH SOME 600 PEOPLE TOOK PART