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PEKING ΤΟ FOREIGN OFFICE
IMMEDIATE
Telno 273
CONFID
AL
27 November 1967
172
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 273 of 27
Repeated for information to Hong Kong, Washington,
November.
POLAD Singapore.
171
My immediately preceding telegram.
I then raised with Mr. Hsueh the cases of several British subjects who were in trouble in China, I referred to Mr. and Mrs. Self in Shanghai for whom the issue of exit visas had been delayed for 6 months, to Mr. Grey unofficial representative Reuters who had been under house arrest for 4 months and incommunicado for 3 and to Mr. Watt who was detained in Lanchow and about whom we had asked for information and for Consular access. I enquired whether he could give me any news about these cases.
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Mr. Hsueh said in reply that his communication concerned only staff of British offices in China and did not apply to other British subjects. He promised to enquire about Mr. and Mrs. Self and said that we could expect some information soon about Mr. Watt. On the subject of Mr. Grey he said we had been informed by News Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs that access to him could not be granted until officials of N.C.N.A. were allowed to visit N.C.N.A. prisoners in Hong Kong. I pointed out that N.C.N.A. officials had in fact been allowed to visit Mr. Hsueh Ping and that we had informed News Department to this effect. Mr. Hsueh said that he had not received a report on this matter but promised to look into it.
3.
I shall be grateful if Hong Kong would send by immediate telegram details of visits with dates and if possible names of N.C.N.A. officials who have been allowed access to Hsueh Ping. I would then propose to send this in writing to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Office pass to Hong Kong 125, Washington 29 and POLAD Singapore 29.
Mr. Hopson
[Repeated as requested]
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