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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
AIORITY HONG KONG TELNO 9 TO PEKING
10 JANUARY 1970
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ADDRESSED PEKING TELNO 9 OF 13 JANUARY REPEATED F C 0.
MY TELEGRAM NO 4: TANG CHUEN.
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THE SAME DELEGATION FROM THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD CHINESE EMPLOYEES UNION
AND THE FAMILY RETURNED YESTERDAY AND ASKED FOR A REPLY TO THE
LETTER REFERRED TO IN PARA. 3. THEY WERE TOLD THAT AN ENQUIRY INTO
TANG'S DEATH WOULD BE HELD AS REQUIRED BY THE CORONER'S ORDINANCE,
BUT THAT THEY WOULD NOT RECEIVE A WRITTEN REPLY SINCE IT IS NOT
THE PRACTICE TO REPLY TO LETTERS COUCHED IN SUCH OFFENSIVE
AND UNSUITABLE TERMS. THEY SAID THAT THEY DID NOT CONSIDER THEIR
LETTER OFFENSIVE AND ASKED FOR AN ANSWER TO THEIR DEMANDS.
THEY WERE TOLD THAT THERE WAS NO FURTHER STATEMENT TO MAKE.
THEY THEN HANDED OVER A SECOND LETTER COUCHED IN ONLY SLIGHTLY
LESS OFFENSIVE TERMS, REITERATING ALLEGATIONS OF MALTREATMENT
AND LACK OF MEDICAL ATTENTION AND THE FOUR DEMANDS.
EMPHATIC THEY WERE WELL BEHAVED.
ALTHOUGH
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2. WHEN THEY RETURN FOR A REPLY TO THIS LETTER WE SHALL ONLY BE
ABLE TO REFER TO THE PREVIOUS ORAL REPLY AND TELL THEM THAT THEIR
ALLEGATIONS ARE REPUDIATED AND THEIR DEMANDS UN ACCEPTABLE.
WRITTEN REPLY WILL BE MADE.
(F CO PLS PASS PRIORITY TO PEKING)
SIR D. TRENCH
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