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Adverting to your
RCCP
REGP IC NOV 31
letter of the
5th Altind and previous correspondence in which you doubted the value of the written assurance.
As to torture not being used in the case of the Chinese Coolie prisoners at the Hong Kong Govt., I have the honour to inform you that the Hong Kong Govt is prepared to surrender the Martial privileges specially referred to in our previous correspondence on this subject on receiving a written assurance that none of the persons are children or grandchildren of the murdered Hewlett Spl.