CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947 — Page 9

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REGISTERED No.

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LETTER SENT

54297/1/47

F.14520/376/10

RESTRICTED

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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