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CYPHER CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
LE NO 2193
CONFIDENTIAL
18 NOV 1968
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.31
1 8 NOV 1968
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CORY
HŇ
HKKI/R
ADDRESSED FCO AS MY TELEGRAM NO. 2193 DATED 18TH NOVEMBER RFI PEKING.
40,
MY TELEGRAM NO. 2183: PRISON VISITS.
VISITS TO STANLEY TOOK PLACE THIS MORNING AS ARRANGED. ASSISTANT
POLITICAL ADVISER WAS PRESENT TO SUPERVISE ARRANGEMENTS. THE
REMAINING N.C.N.A. PRISONER,
N.C.N.A. VISITORS
WAS SEEN BY THE TWO
AND
SEHICOLON THE OTHER TEN
PRISONERS EACH HAD THREE VISITORS, ONE N.C.N.A. MAR AND TWO OTHERS.
AT REQUEST OF N.C.M.A. THE PROGRAMME HAD BEEN ARRANGED WITH VISITO
AT HALF HOUR INTERVALS, BUT AVERAGE LENGTH OF VISITS WAS 35 REPEAT
35 MINUTES. THE RANGE WAS FROM THIRTY TO FORTY MIXUTES. VISITORS
HAD TO BE REMINDED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS THAT THEY HAD RUN OVER THEIR
TINE.
2. ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER TOLD
THAT PRISON
SUPER INTENDENT WOULD BE PREPARED TO RECEIVE REPRESENTATIVES OF
VISITORS IF THEY HAD ANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. PICH
DECLINED THIS OFFER PUT INDICATED HE WOULD WISH TO RAISE VARIOUS
MATTERS, INCLUDING PRISONERS' FOOD, WITH POLITICAL ADVISER, II!
ANSWER TO A QUESTION PULSAID HE WAS SATISPIED WITH ARRANGEMENTS,
POO PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING.
SIR D.TRENCH
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
HONG KONG DEPT.
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