TNAG-0011-FCO40-47-Kowloon-disturbances-1967 — Page 194

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friends

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B/ MA Mandling; they how these and I wish to hel

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be

associated with the tribute so rightly paid hy the A Laday to the

hon.

Governor and others for the rema kable job they h done in difficult

times recently in Hong Kong and we would certainly like to echo the

is hope that good sense will prevail. Will ahe confirm t the process of

the pro

the law in Hong Kong and the proper dealg with these difficult

dros will not in any way be affected by external pressures?

MRS. HART : I think that it will h bn clear from

events of the last week or ten days that all of those arrested

perfectly for various offences during the disturbances that the/normal

processes of the law were followed in the reference XX to/thet of their being brought to court and in every other aspect of the way they

were treated In other words everything that would normally occur

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is occurring.

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MR. JAMES JOHNSON : I thank my h F for dealg with

this matter on a factual basis and I, too, Join her in expressing

admiration for what the police h done in Hong Kong and all down

the line. Is it not a fact t the Govt and the Governor h bn asked

for the last 12 months to do some thing to alleviate the economie

conditns as well as the workg conditns of the union members in

Hong Kong? Is it not a fact t if the Chinese pple in Hong Kong

were given more participation/^if not in the executive Council then in other ways,( in their affairs) and were allowed to h some

say in what is happeng some of this mischief would be stopped at th

the source?

MRS. HART: Amy h F may know, the aspect which he is raining todeing was very fully covered in the Adjnment debate initiated by my h the Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Rahkin) not long before

the Whitsun Recess. There is at the moment a rpt on local govt in

Hong Kong being studied by all seatns of opinn in Hong Kon .I

expressed my views about that during the Adjnment debate, although

I believe that this is not directly related to the occurrences of recent

weeks