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that decision

being the

the eleven prisoners referred

to in

of

in your

the 31st

f

desh: no. 358.

desp

Dec. last

should be discharged, and that the two

oners whose

frisoners.

was re

case

reported upon in your

deups: no. 207. of

the

lune should be

given up to

to the Chinese

gooit eeprom receipt by you of satisfactory

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assurances that torture

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would not be inflicted afor

that practical

them and facilitics would

be

given

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to the British

authorities to convince

themselves that such

assurances were

carried out.

"I now

being

have to enclose

for your information

A

letter from

a copy of the Foreign Office

enclosing the opinion

the Law

Offices

of