CONFIDENTIAL
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
(The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (0.A.G.)
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IMMEDIATE
CONFIDENTIAL
No. 1090,
SOPY FOR KLO
Addressed to Commonwealth Office.
Repeated "Peking No. 435. (Please pass).
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Your telegram No. 1505.
NCNA Reporter, Hsueh Ping.
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It would be legally possible to remit sentence and to deport and we gave consideration to this before trial. Despite his pro-Communist attitude and NCNA employment it is, however, possible that he would refuse to go to China if the Chinese Government are willing to accept him. Having once released him we should be obliged, I think, to detain him pending deportation. If this happened Chinese would certainly accuse us having engineered his refusal.
20 Police inform us that, though he claims to be single, there is a woman who says she is his wife and that they have children, This may complicate issue.
30 If other NCNA reporters are also convicted (my telegram No. 1089) there might be some advantage in trying to get rid of the lot at the same time, but this would mean dealy till early August.
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