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CONFIDENTIAL
HKK
Registry No. 14/38
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
DRAFT LETTER
To: His Excellency
Confidential.
Sir David Trench,GCMG,MC
Government House,
HONG KONG
Type 1 +
From
Sir L. Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
PRIVACY MARKING
...In Confidence
Department
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Zhank you du
helpful
am sending you this interim reply to your i
letter to me No. SCR 4/561/58 of 6 August about
the upward trend of violent crime in Hong Kong.
We shall be going into the matters raised
in your letter, but this may take a little time.
Meanwhile, you should know that I have brought
your letter to the attention of the Minister who
has raised a number of points in connection with
We can deal with these from information already
in our possession, but he has commented that he
hopes you will not go ahead with any changes
until we have had an opportunity here of studying
the matter in greater depth.
it.
In paragraph 12 of your letter you ask if we
can let you have any information about the
effectiveness of the detention centre system in
this country. I am wondering whether, when you
wrote this, you had seen our saving despatch No.
148 1 of 30 April, 1970, with which we enclosed
material
a considerable amount of information provided
by the Home Office. Perhaps you would let me
know whether you require any further information
on this particular aspect.