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Communists sentenced to terms of imprisonment for offences
committed during confrontation have been granted full
remission of sentence, even though their behaviour while in
prison was such that they did not merit this.
(n) Withdrawal on 3rd April, 1968, of three arrest warrants issued
in respect of a breach of licensing conditions by the commu-
nist Nan Yang Theatre on 1st October, 1967;
(o) Arrangements made in June 1968, for a representative of the
Hong Kong Government Waterworks Department to once more cross
into Chinese Territory to agree monthly figures of water supplied
to the Colony although no guarantee as to his safe conduct (in
the event he was subjected on the first occasion to harrassment by Chinese personnel);
(p) No action taken to remove an illegal structure built in June,
1968, by labourers from Chinese Territory on British Territory
at Man Kam To;
(q) The release in July and August, 1968, of a total of nine persons
detained under the Emergency Regulations before the expiry of
their respective Detention Orders.
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