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All these youngsters are employed in the Frisons workshop. they have been offered
voluntary schooling in the young prisoners
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section, but only two of them have taken
Them
advantage of this offer. None of the five
prisoners has any contact with any older
prisoners.
As regards the penultimate paragraph of
your letter, it is not, perhaps, generally
realised that the cases of those British
subjects detained in China are by no means all
on a par with one another, and each one has
(where reasons have been gwen) been detained for different reas
reasons. However,
with the possible exception of the case of
Mr. Grey (the Reuters' correspondent detained
in Peking) there is no evidence whatever to
Perdetention & suggest that any of them is in any way linked
with events in Hong Kong; and the Chinese
themselves have never suggested such a
probably know connexion. As you may well be aware, a
number of nationals of other countries have
been detained by the Chinese during the same
period. You mention your belief that these
unfortunate people are being used as pawns by
the Chinese. If this is in fact the case, I
cannot imagine anything more calculated to
persuade the Chinese of the value to them of
holding such pawns (and possibly of acquiring
a few more if and when it suits them) than any
attempt on our part to set a price on their
heads.