--
Retournons a nos moutons!.
-- Today, (
07th.), forenoon - workers were seen dismantling the plyboard barriers & scaffolding fronting SILCOM. along tnn. Si Lom;
- SILCOM. has reverted to its
21.oo.hrs.
CLOSING time.
- Noted many MORE people lunching. in the various eateries.
-- A rough & ready head-count of soldiers seen during my walk-back at around
12.nn.:
1.- O'side. SILCOM ---------------
03;
2.- Tnn. Thaniya -----------------
none;
3.- 'tween. the P. Pongs ----------
24;
4.- Opp. LE MERIDIEN HTL. --------
09;
5.- O'side. 7/11./tnn. Than Tawan -
06.
-- Possibly a s-l-o-w return to the '
Status quo ante demonstrationem.'?
-- At
17.oo.hrs. we walked from SILCOM. to CHAMCHURI SQ.; this time - noting an INCREASE in the mil'y. presence along the way - I made a rough & ready head-count of the riot-police seen:
1.- O'side. SILCOM. -------------------------- 14;
2.- At i'sect. with Tnn. S'daeng. -------------- 14;
3.- O'side. ZUELLIG BLDG. -------------------- 28;
4.- In the DUSIT THANI HTL. forect. -- possibly 3O+?
5.- Opp. & o'side. former ROBINSON'S - possibly 3O+?
6.- At the Henri Dunant i'sect. ---------------- O5.
-- Walking past BB. INN we were o'taken. by about
5O or so mil'y., who were foregathering in the car-pk. by MRT. Sam Yan.
-- At approx.
2O.15.hrs. we passed-by the DUSUT THANI HTL.
1.- INCREASED mil'y. & police presence on both sides of tnn. Si Lom;
2.- A score or so of mil'y. sitting in the ROBINSON'S car parking exit;
3.- MORE mil'y. o'side. the CHARN ISSARA I. TOWER;
4.- At the start of tnn. S'wong. the mil'y. had set-up lanes separated by water-filled &
orange barriers; tfc.was being waved through by mil'y. carrying
red-lit batons;
4.- INCREASED presence o'side. the JIM. THOMPSON SHOP;
5.- As we passed-by the a/m. shop a file of some 7O+ policemen - soft & black caps,
green neckkerchiefs, white tee-shirts &
dk. brown trousers - came-out from the small soi and walked along tnn. S'wong. away from tnn. Rama IV.;
6.- INCREASED mil'y. presence between the P. Pongs;
7.- In Tnn. Than Tawan a small barricade across the st., with the mil'y. waving through tfc. with their
red-lit batons.
-- Noted plenty of civilians eating at the side-walk eateries along tnn. Rama IV. & S'wong..