CONFIDENTIAL
Cypher/Cat.A
TRIORITY HONG KONG
Telno.950
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
29 December, 1969
CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed to FCO Telno.950 of 29 December.
information to Peking.
Repeated for
Tang Chuen, former Chairman of Taikoo Dockyard Chinese Workers Union, age 56, convicted in August, 1967 of unlawful assembly and riot and sentenced to a total of six years im- prisonment died in Queen Mary Hospital this morning. Routine inquest will be held but preliminary diagonosis gives infective hepatitis as cause of death. Tang was admitted to Stanley Prison Hospital on December 8 and transferred to Queen Mary Hospital on December 20, He has no previous record of sick- ness during his period of imprisonment.
FCO please pass Priority Peking.
Sir D. Trench
FILE S
HONG KONG DEPT. FAR EASTERN DEPT. P.U.S.D. I.R.D.
[Repeated as requested]
RECEIVED IN
REGISTRY No. 51
3ODEC 1939
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