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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
DRAFT
Letter
To:-
C. J. Howells, Esq., HONG KONG.
Type 1 +
From
J. A. L. Morgan
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Copies to:
J. N. Allan,
Sick Prisoners in Hong Kong
Len Appleyard has shown me your letter
PEKING [Flag 4] CR 1/2856/69 of 7 August.
A]
J. D. I. Boyd,
WASHINGTON
cc. P.J.S.D.
the three mat mana about whos
representatione have been made
were to die in
custry.
sick
2 =
It is interesting that the list of prisoners
does not include/a mention of Mo Hsiang, who was one
of the three specifically mentioned by the delegations
that called on the Colonial Secretariat on 21 and
22 May. I wonder if you have any information about
him? The other two mentioned are (1) and (2) of your
enclosure.
3.
imagine that consideration is being given to
beths whether any on the list qualify for premature release
on/medival grounds
Could you
in the same way as the two last year (Hong Kong
telegram No. 133 of 10 February, 1969). let me know what is the present thinking?
4.
I need hardly say that we would welcome it if
it were found possible to release some or all of them.
It would clearly be most embarrassing if one of them
were
to
die after the representations had been made.
Apart from this, the line taken by the Chinese Chargé
d'Affaires with me on 29 July (Appleyard's letter to
you of 30 July) and with the Secretary of State on
5 August (copied to the Political Adviser without a
difficult covering letter) has presented us with a
(We cannot ignore the fact that I
There is now a much more defined link
situation.
/between