were
border area and to establishing a more permanent
procedure for making future contact with them should
the need arise. The other side,for their parts
concerned with securing the return of five Chinese
who had been arrested earlier in the month for
offences committed on British territory; with the
realignment of an immigration wire fence erected in
1962
on the fields of peasants from Chinese
territory; the removal of the barrier at Man Kan
To frontier road bridge which we had erected on
15 October immediately following the incident which
had led to Inseptor Knight's abduction; and the
payment of compensation to peasants for losses
sustained as a result of our closure of the
Man Kan To bridge and for damage to family graves
destroyed or damaged by our military positions in
the area.
4. On 20 October the Governor reported to us the
return of Senior Inspector Knight to British terri-
tory. There seems little doubt that his escape was
not engineered by the Chinese authorities. This
development had no apparent effect on the progress
generine
of the talks, which yere finally concluded on 25 November.
Exams
Agreement in general/was reached on the matters at
issue, and the exchange of personnel and the return
of police equipment took place on 26 November.
5.
In the course of the talks the British
took
negotiators keve taken the opportunity of making
clear our views on the need for orderly behaviour in
the border area. It remains to be seen whether the
agreement reached and the contact established will
lead to any lasting improvement in the beer from tir
situation.
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