C.O.
REGISTERED No.
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LETTER SENT
54297/1/47
F.14520/376/10
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MR. Mayle
Dear Scott,
MR..
MR.
ENCLOSURES
FURTHER ACTION
10
Colonial Office, Church House,
Great Smith Street,
3.DATE
25th November, 1947.
Imprisonment of Two Members of Kwangtung
Provinciel Peace Preservation Corps
Hong Kong.
I have now had a reply from the Governor of Hong Kong saying that the objections to which I drew attention in my letter to him (set out in paragraph 3 of my letter to you or the 3rd November) were very mach in his mind as in the minds of the Members of the executive Council, with whom he discussed the mattor. In the upshot, he decided not to release the men.
The Governor adds that neither General Chang Fþ Kwe1, when he was on a visit to Hong Kong from Canton, nor George Yeh, nor anyone clse at Hanking mentioned the matter to him, although they had plenty of opportunities of doing so. Je should, therefore, have gained little and might have lost much had these two men been released.
Yours sincerely,
AL SCOTT
To
Soyd, (N.L. Mayle)
[4556B) Wt. 26930/440 50m. 9/45 C.N.Ld. 748