Telephone: London 940-9214
20 Bishops Close Ham Common Richmond Surrey England.
28 August 1973
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Mr Fung Tze Cheong
Acting President
Hongkong Federation of Students
Room 101, 1st floor, Lutheran Building
50a Waterloo Road
Kowloon, Hongkong.
Dear Mr Fung
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Thank you for your letter of 17th your kind invitation to me to assi. campaign to secure the extradition with MPs and the British press.
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at received this morning and for le HKTS in publicising its ir Godber to Hongkong, by liasing
I was greatly improsaod by the lotte Mr D.A.L.Wright and Mr P.J. Griffiths, published in the' South Chi orning Post of 16th August, and by the IIKFS's own treatment of that i Lotter in its communication to Prime Ministor Edward Heath. I have today spoken with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) who advise me that a reply has already been sent to you concerning your earlier letter but that the FCO has not yet received from the Prime Minister's Office your letter of 17th August. They assure me that they will reply to the last letter in due course.
Now that we are in contact I am glad because I feel we ought to liase very closely on the Godber affair and the wider problem of the organised corruption conspiracy in Hongkong. There is a danger that if all the persons and parties interested to secure Godber's extradition do not liase then we may all end up sabotaging the successful conclusion of what is in fact a common aim.
At the moment the Hongkong students are quite properly conducting a genuine campaign of public protest over Godber; individuals, including my good friend Mrs Elsie Elliott, are campaigning; and I have been lobbying in London where we now have an interested collection of persons sympathetic to the anti-corruption cause, including Mr James Johnson MP and several national newspapers and television programmes. Mr Johnson, whose active interest in the graft problem was first engaged by Mrs Elliott in 1966 is a strong ally.
There are two other bodies in whose ranks I believe there is sincere intent that Godber should be extradited. Firstly, the Royal Hongkong Police Force: I believe that Commissioner Charles Sutcliffe, whose courage and determination to eliminate graft originally exposed Godber, is as anxious as the HKFS and myself to see Godber returned. Secondly, the FCO. Over the past month I have been in touch with the FCO, urging it to be seen to be attempting to extradite Godber. I believe the FCO is determined to get him back and the FCO assure me that retrospective legislation in the form of an amended Fugitivo Offenders Act is most notivoly undor consideration and appears the most likely dovico of all the possibilities boing considered.
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