oy
SECRET.
Government House, Đang trong
13th November, 1947.
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Dear Mayle,
Thank you for your letter No.54297/1/47 of 3rd November
regarding the proposed remission of sentence of the two Peace
Preservation Corps men. The objections to which you draw attention
in your third paragraph were very much before my mind as before
those of the members of Executive Council with whom I discussed
the matter. In the upshot, however, I decided not to release
Neither General Chang Fa Kwei, when he was on a visit
the men.
here from Canton, nor George Yeh, nor anyone else at Nanking,
mentioned the matter to me, although they had plenty of opportunities
of doing so. We should therefore have gained little and might
have lost much had they been released.
RECEIVED
22 NOV 1947
C. O. REX
N. L. Mayle, Esq.,
Colonial Office,
London.
Yours ever,
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