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18. On 24 January 1965 I wrote to the Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State at the Colonial Office, MRS EIRENE. WHITE (now Baroness White of Rhymney), listing a number of allegations. One of these was that I had been offered the HK$500 retainers in my station in the name of a senior divisional officer. In March 1965 MRS WHITE advised me she was drawing the attention of the GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID TRENCH, to certain of my allegations with a request that he take action as he considered fit. In Hongkong, I asked the GOVERNOR if he had made any decision upon MRS WHITE'6 letter. The COLONIAL SECRETARIAT replied that the allegations were being investigated. Privately I learned that an Assistant Commissioner of Police was conducting an investigation into my allegations. In May 1965 I asked the GOVERNOR what progress had been made: COLONIAL SECRETARIAT replied that the GOVERNOR saw "no reason to communicate further" with me on the subject. In August 1965 MRS WHITE stated that "a full enquiry was made into the allegations." Although I had offered to assist the enquiry I was not invited to present the detail of my direct evidence. There was, therefore, no "full" enquiry and in advising MRS WHITE that there had been, the Hongkong Government had not only lied but had also suppressed primary, direct evidence of corruption. I drew the attention of MRS WHITE to these particular matters on 1 December 1965. She has never replied.
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It is my belief and my contention that the reason given for the action described in Paragraph 16, that is my alleged "unsuitability" was, in fact, a mere pretext used to cover the real motive, which was my consistent refusal to have any part in the system of general corruption and moral turpitude pervading the Hongkong Police Force at the relevant time, as well as my persistent effort to disclose and to denounce those malpractices.
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