CYPHER/CAT A
CONFIDENTIAL
PRIORITY PEKING TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TELNO 19
NFIDENTIAL
10 JANUARY 1970
ADDRESSED TO FCO TELNO 19 OF 10 JANUARY REPEATED FOR INF-
ORMATION (PRIORITY) TO HONG KONG.
YOUR TELNO 20 TO HONG KONG AND HONG KONG TELNO 16: T'ANG
CHUEN.
SINCE IT MAY BE SOME LITTLE TIME UNTIL RESULTS OF INQUEST
ARE AVAILABLE, I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR AUTHORITY TO PASS TO
THE CHINESE CONTENTS OF PARA 1 (OMITTING LAST TWO SENTENCES)
AND PARA 2 OF HONG KONG TELNO 4 TO PEKING. I WOULD ADD
THAT RESULTS OF THE INQUEST, THE PROCEEDINGS OF WHICH WERE TO
BEGIN ON 15 JANUARY, WERE AWAITED. AT THE SAME TIME IT
WOULD BE MADE CLEAR THAT THE ALLEGATIONS OF ILL-TREATMENT
WERE REJECTED BY HMG.
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2. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO RUT THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON A POINT
OF DETAIL. HONG KONG TELNO 950, AS RECEIVED HERE, SAID
THAT T'ANG WAS ADMITTED TO STANLEY PRISON HOSPITAL ON 28
DECEMBER. HONG KONG TELNO 4 SHOWS THAT HE WAS IN FACT
ADMITTED TO THAT HOSPITAL ON I DECEMBER.
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MR. DENSON
FILES
F.E.D.
H.K.D.
P.U.S.D.
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51
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