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Mr. Hall
Please see telegram at (5) and minutes of 31 July to
1 August in O.D.M. file RC.216/81/01 attached proposing the
promotion of Mr. Eates to be Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong.
2. I discussed this with Mr. Macoun, the Police Adviser,
at the end of last week, prior to his departure for Ghana.
He did indeed express the views recorded in Mr. Ashton's
minute of 31 July. Since Mr. Macoun is not proposing to visit
Hong Kong until October, I did not feel fully able to go along
with his views. In any case,
I do not consider there is any
may,
doubt about Mr. Eates' suitability for the Commissionership
even though it would be a little strange to promote an officer
who only became the Deputy Commissioner eight months ago.
Mr. Eates has, after all, been a Commissioner of Police,
albeit in the Gambia.
3. Mr. Macoun did, however, make the point that to announce
Mr. Eates' promotion at the present time could well stir up
interest in Mr. Tyrer's retirement. I think this is a good
point. It is only a matter of some three weeks since Mr.
Tyrer arrived here; we have been remarkably successful in
evading any awkward Press interest. In another three or four
weeks I think we could regard Press interest as dead.
4.
I suggest that we reply to Hong Kong in the terms of
the two attached draft telegrams. I will minute separately on RC.216/81/06 taking up the points made in paragraphs 3
and 4 of Mr. Ashton's minute of 1 Augúst.
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