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David Cracknell,
3, Habgood Road, Loughton,
Essex, ENGLAND
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HONGKONG, BRITISH CROWN COLONY
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December 1, 1965
Dear David,
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The Hongkong Government has lied to the British Government. It has informed the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies that a full investigation into my allegations of police maladministration here has been held. That is not true. No full investigation has been held. Whosoever signed the original document from which the British Goverment was informed that a full investigation has been held is aliar.
When I was home last Christmas you asked me to tell you why I was campaigning against the Hongkong Government. My reply was that I could not tell you then because the story was not complete. Now it is: I am campaigning against the Hongkong Government because it has deprived me of my freedom of speech, Conclusive proof of this came in a letter from John Rankin, Member of Parliament for Govan, aletter dated September 13th, 1965. Quoting Under Secretary of State for the Colonies Mrs.Eirene White, M.P., he informed me that a full enquiry into allegatinns of police maladminsitration I had made to the Colonial Office in January this year had been held. Mrs.White has been mis- informed. No full enquiry has been held. My allegations stand and I am ready to support them as best I can. To this end I have written this day to Mrs. White, as follows:
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I refer to myletter of August 31st in which I offered to give the Secretary of State further detail or explanation relating to any specific allegation of maladministration made in my January 24th letter, His Excellency the Governor, Sir David Trench, not having asked me to support such allegations; and to your August 9th letter to John Rankin, M.P., in which you state that 'a full enquiry was made into the allegations. 'The Hongkong Government has misinformed you. No such enquiry has been held.
May I please be informed if you feel that a 'full investigation' (as defined by the Commissioner of Police in a memorandum dated June 14th, 1963), conducted into certain of my allegations made whilst I was still serving as a Probationary Inspector of the Hongkong Police Force, also amounts to a full enquiry, in view of the fact that:
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