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Hong Kong Department
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17 October, 1969
Now that Grey and a number of other British subjects hitherto detained in China have been released following the release kn Hong Kong of the last of the eleven convicted newsworkers, we can expect a revival of interest in the remaining confrontation prisoners who are still serving sentences in the Colony. John Rankin has, in fact, already put down a Parliamentary Question on this subject for answer on 20 October.
It would be most helpful to us in dealing with possible future enquiries of this kind if you could let us have, by bag, up-to-date figures for confrontation prisoners with their expected quarterly rate of release, in place of those given in the Governor's telegram No.2242 of 7 December, 1968. It may be that the latter figures are still fairly accurate but they must to some extent have been affected as a result of the Prisons Board of Review's recommendations and possibly by subsequent arrests and convictions of persons who have been on the wanted list for their part in the 1967 disturbances.
I am sorry if this request presents undue difficulties, but we would like to be sure that our figures are as nearly correct as possible.
A. R. F. Maddocks, Esq.,
Political Adviser,
HONG KONG.
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