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Sir John Tilney told me this morning that Mrs Elliott
will be going to the House of Commons on 18 December. Mr James
Johnson MP had originally arranged a meeting of Labour MP's only;
but Sir John had thought it wise to take this over. She will
therefore address a meeting of the Hong Kong Parliamentary Group
at 5 p.m. on 18 December. He expects a full house. I said I
imagined Mrs Elliott would concentrate on the general question
of corruption in Hong Kong and her claim to have been victimised
by corrupt policemen at the time of the Star Ferry riots.
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I suggested that Sir John might follow the line we used
in the recent PQ that Mrs Elliott's allegations were mainly of
conspiracy, and had been fully investigated by the Judicial
Commission. As for any corruption aspects it was for the Hong
Kong Government, not for us, to consider whether these could
usefully be investigated by the new Anti-Corruption Commission.
Mrs Elliott should welcome the Commission and be prepared to work
with it.
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Sir John said that he would be following this line. He
also said that there might have to be some press statement after
the meeting; but he would try to insist from the Chair that this
would be no more than an announcement that Mrs Elliott had been
to the House of Commons and had met MP's there.
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