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"Thatch Cottage."
Trehaddle. Cusgarne.
Truro, Cornwall.
4.11.74.
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Mr A.C. Stuart.
Hongkong and Indian
Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
London. S.W. 1.
cean Department.
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Dear Mr Stuart,
I have been following the developments of the Godber extradition proceedings and was very pleased to learn of the latest result. I doubt if an appeal will hold up his departure for Honkong.
I was hoping to hear from you or Mr John Prendergast and perhaps meet him in London for a discussion as a means to help him with his work in Hongkong.
The last time I was in Hongkong was in 1941 when en-route for war service with the Royal Air Force, India, Burma and Ceylon. From all I have read and been told Hongkong has changed a great deal and by way of the commercial world is very much like Shanghai pre-war.
i mean to make a trip there sometime, but as yet have not fixed a date.
From what I have read it appears Godber had a bank account in Australia. If Mr Prendergast intends to make some investigations there I cound write to Mr Jack M. Davis, Commissioner, Commonwealth Police at Canberra to help him. The Commonwealth Police attend to all extradition proceedings under the direction of the Attorney-General's Department. I worked with the Commissioner for some fourteen years ending 1969, and we are firm friends.
Sincerely,
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A.G.Tilton.