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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
PRIORITY HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO.14 TO PEKING OF 21 JANUARY
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23 January, 1969
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ADDRESSED PEKING ... TEL NO. 14 OF 21ST JANUARY RFI FCO
184) YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 12. POLICE SUPERVISION ORDERS,
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IS THE ONLY DETAINEE TO HAVE DEEN FLACED UNDER
POLICE SUPERVISION CNY TELEGRAM NO, 7 REFERS) AND THIS COURSE
WAS TAKEN AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ISSUEING A NEW DETENTION ORDER
WHEN HIS OLD ONE EXPIRED ON 7 JANUARY: THIS MAN HAD BEEN
INVOLVED IN PLANS TO ASSASSIATD THE DIVISIONAL SUPERİYTENDENT
OP POLICE IN YUEN LONG AND TO BLOW UP A HELICOPTER SENI COLON
AND THERE IS A REAL DANGER THAT HE MAY AGAIN BECOME A CENTRE
OF FRESH DISORDER AND A CAUSE OF FUEL 10 APPREHENSION IN THE
YUEN LONG AREA,
·2.
OF THE CONFRONTATION PRISONERS, AS DISTICT FROM DETAINEES,
29 HAVE BEEN RELEASED ON POLICE SUPERVISION ORDERS. 10 OF THEN
HAVE BEEN REPORTING TO THE POLICE AS REQUIRED BY THEIR ORDERS,
THE REMAINING 19 HAVE FAILED TO REPORT BUT ONLY ONE HAS BEEN
ARRESTED FOR FAILURE TO REPORT. HE WAS CHARGED WITH AN OFFENCE,
BUT ADMITTED TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL,
3. THE PURPOSE OF SUPERVISION ORDERS IS NOT TO FORCE THOSE
CONCERNED INTO COMMITING A NEW OPPENCE AHO THEN TO IMPRISON
THEM, BUT TO REDUCE THE DANGERS TO PUBLIC SECURITY FOLLOWING
THEIR RELEASE, EITHER THEY WILL COMPLY WITH THE ORDER,
WHICH GIVES THE POLICE SOME CHANCE O CONTROLLING THEIR ACTIVITIES,
OR THEY WILL DECIDE NOT TO COME Y
WHICH WOULD MAKE IT MORE DIFF
IMPLUSHCE IN THE NEU TEKNI TORICO,
BEEN FAIRLY EFFECTIVE,
THEY WILL, GO UNDERGROUND
OR TWCH TO RESUME THEIR
TIRAR USE IN THIS MAY HAS