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Mrs E Elliott K TIL 688
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Kwan Tong
KOWLOON
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Date
22 January 1974
Dear Mrs Elliott
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Thank you very much for your letter of 7 January. sorry that you were not in the end able to manage a meeting. expect you know, Mr Royle has now resigned from the Government, but I will take your letter as far as I can myself and will be informing Mr Blaker, the new Minister responsible for Hong Kong, of the general situation on corruption in Hong Kong, with which your letter is concerned.
I am sorry that you feel it would be a waste of time for me to pass your letter to the Colonial Secretary. The fact of the matter is that the body which is responsible for investigating and dealing with the corruption problem in Hong Kong, is, under the Governor, the new Anti-Corruption Commission. You suggest that their efforts will come to nothing, but given that you have long been concerned with the corruption problem in Hong Kong, I do very much hope that you will give the new Commission your support and assistance, and will not simply write them off out of hand.
You of course know very well the problems of legal proof. Campaigners like yourself should surely be the first to welcome the fact that, under the system of British justice, nobody can be convicted without proof that they have personally committed the crime alleged against them. This is the problem of the Godber case, and I would urge you to support the Governor's plea that people with direct evidence of actual corruption by a given officer should come forward and give it.
As I promised, I have sent a copy of your letter, with this one, to the Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong. I am sure that if there is anything in it which can be used in the fight against corruption, he will ensure that it is passed at once to the Anti- Corruption Commission.
Yours sincerely
C.'S
Andow C. Shan
A C Stuart
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Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department
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