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LETTER
To:- His Excellency
Sir David Trench,GCMG,MC.,
Government House,
HONG KONG.
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Mr Rogle 3° cant of 27/8
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Thank you for your helpful letter of 6 August
about crime in Hong Kong.
It will be a little while before we are in
a position to send you our views on the various
important mattere you have raised.
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However, Like
you we shall treat this as a matter of urgency
The
•fore you and we are aiming to let you have our ideas within As soon as possible a few weeks. Meanwhile, I have already shown your
letter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary who
has commented that he hopes you will not go ahead
with any changes until we have had a chance to
consider your suggestions in depth and report
to him.
There is one other point I might mention now.
In paragraph 12 of your letter you asked if we could
let you have any information about the effectiveness
of the detention centre system in this country. We
are wondering whether when you wrote this you had
seen our Saving Despatch No. 148 of 30 April in
reply to your Saving Despatch/279 of 4 March
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(your reference GR/L/M/C/12/70). We sent you then
a considerable amount of material provided by the
Home Office and we should be glad to know whether
you require any further information on this
particular matter..
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