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KE LIN'S DEATH
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I attach a cutting from SCMP 1 October on the death of
Ke Lin.
2. Ke Lin was known and respected in Macau as the long time head of the Chinese (Kiang Wu) Hospital. He was also a close friend of Li Peng's father and well known to Li Peng. His younger brother, usually known by the Cantonese romanisation, is Or Qingping (Or and Ke are different pronunciations of the same character). Or was head of the Nam Kwong trading group
in Macau for many years and as such the unofficial representati
period when
of mainland China during the long postwar re was no NCNA in Macau. (The Portuguese did not emulate us with a charge d'affaires in Peking from the mid 1950's.)
3. Or was therefore implicitly involved in the harassment that led to the exit of our Consul General (and the closure of the Consulate General) in 1966-67. So too, to his partial embarrassment, was Ho Yin, the intermediary most trusted by Macau's governors and the only ethnic Chinese to be awarded the freedom of the city of Macau.
4.
It is interesting therefore that 2 of today's players in the drama that is forever Macau are Edmund Ho (Vice President BLDC and Legislative Assembly and Ho Yin's son) and Ke Xiaogang (NCNA Vice Director for Foreign Affairs, Ke Lin's son and or Qingping's nephew).
5.
Or himself, incidentally, was alive and well when I last saw him at the Governor's Camoes (National Day) reception. He is still an adviser to the NCNA.
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Richard Graham
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11 September 1991
P W Heap Esq CMG BTC
HONG KONG
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Gary?
Jaw Pelet,
T S LO
1.
Thank you for your letter of 5 August and its enclosure, which arrived when I was on leave.
2.
It is probably just as well to have this line to T S Lo, so we are grateful to be kept in the picture about what he is saying (murky though he makes the picture!).
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S Bradley Esq DPA
HONG KONG
J Gerson Esq HSG
HONG KONG
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RA Burns
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BRITISH TRADE COMMISSION
HONG KONG.
5 August 1991
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TS LO
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I had lunch with T S Lo on 30 July and afterwards dictated the attached record. It perhaps comes across as a little more sinister than it seemed at the time; the various comments on intelligence and other matters were fairly widely scattered during the course of quite a relaxed lunch. Nonetheless I imagine that you, and others to whom I am copying this, might find them of interest. You will be aware I am sure that T S Lo is a Cambridge-educated lawyer who at one time was close to the Administration and Government House here, but then in an abrupt switch transferred his allegiance to China saying that that is where the future of Hong Kong lay. TS Lo presumably assumes that I will pass anything of interest that he tells me back to the FCO. He may not assume that I share it with the Hong Kong Government.
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Yours
Pel
PW Heap
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PERSONAL & PERSONAL COVERS
Stephen Bradley Esq
Acting Political Adviser
Hong Kong Government
John Gerson Esq
HSG
Hong Kong
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