CONFIDENTIAL
Registry
No. HKK 1/12
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..In Confidence
DRAFT letter
Js. Com
17/10
To:- A. R. F. Maddocks, Esq.,
Political Adviser, HONG KONG.
Type 1 +
From
Mr. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
284
Flag K.
Now that Grey and a number of other British subjects
hitherto detained in China have been released following
the release in Hong Kong of the last of the eleven con-
victed 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. візить 2242 of 7 December, 1968. It may be that the latter are
still fairly accurate but they must to some extent have
been affected as a result of the Prison 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 diffi-
culties, but we would like to be sure that our figures
are as nearly correct as possible.
(118281) Dd. 391599 1,500M 2/69 Hw.
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