CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947 — Page 4

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Mr. Galsworthy

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This is the case I spoke to you about recently. The attitude taken up by Mr. Lamb in the face of Vice-Minister George Yeh's antics seems to me to be pathetic and strongly reminiscent of the appeasement policy prior to the recent war. are not, I think, in a position to comment on this aspect, but Mr. Lamb's proposal that, as the result of Vice-Minister Yeh's outburst, the Governor of Hong Kong should remit, as an act of clemency and in token of goodwill on assuming charge of the Administration, the unserved part of the sentences passed on the two members of the Kwartung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps, who are at present

imprisoned in Hong Kong, is very definitely our

concern.

Would you see any objection, from the I.R.D. point of view, to my writing privately to Mr. MacDougall, saying that we should be interested to hear what view he took on this proposal, which we here feel is open to the strongest objection on general policy grounds?

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