TNAG-0032-FCO40-68-Relations-with-China-1968 — Page 196

CYPHER CAT A

PRIORITY HONG KONG

TELEGRA NUMBER 926

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25 JULY 1968

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ADDRESSED CO TELEGRAM NO. 928 OF 25TH JULY REPEATED PEKING ACESTED No. 63

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PEKING TELEGRAM NO. 671 : POLICY IN HONG KONG.

THE ONLY CONSIDERABLE CONCESSIONS WE HAVE SO FAR THOUGHT ABOUT

ARE, BRIEFLY: -

CA) CONVICTED PRISONERS AND DETAINEES. THERE ARE STILL SERICUS

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASING THE FIRST CATEGORY BEFORE SENTENCES

LESS REMISSION ARE COMPLETED, OR TO INCREASING THE REMISSION

RATE. THERE IS RELATIVELY LESS DIFFICULTY OVER THE DETAINEES,

AND I AH, OF COURSE, KEEPING THEN CONSTANTLY UNDER REVIEW.

WE HAVE NOW RELFASED FOUR DETAINEES PREMATURELY SEMICOLON

PARTLY FOR IMMEDIATE TACTICAL PURPOSES WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT

HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY ACHIEVED SEMICOLON BUT WE HAVE YET TO SEE

ANY OBVIOUS DIVIDEND.

(3) REINSTATEMENT OF WORKERS.

THE COMMUNISTS ARE ON THE POINT OF AJLITTING THAT THIS CAMPAIGN

HAS FAILED AND NO CONCESSION HERE SEEMS USEFUL, OR IN PRACTICE,

AT ALL FEASIBLE.

(C) U.S. NAVAL VISITS.

I HAVE ELSEWHERE EXPRESSED MY DOUBTS ABOUT THE VALLE OF ANY PEUVC-

-TION ÎN FREQUENCY CRY TELEGRAM NO. 983 REFERS). ~ WB 2/1/229)

(D) COMMUNIST SCHOOLS.

THERE IS NO USEFUL CONCESSION AVAILABLE HERE SINCE, EVEN

IN THE CASE OF CHUNG WAH, WE HAVE NOT YET FOUND ANY ACCEPTABLE

MEANS OF PREVENTING THER FROM MAINTAINING AND INDEED INCREASING

THEIR ACTIVITIES IN SCHOOLS. I SHOULD ADD THAT UNOFFICIAL

MEMBERS AT A RECENT MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL EXPRESSED GAVE

CONCERN AT THE LACK OF CONTROL OVER THESE SCHOOLS: AND IN THIS WAY

THEY WERE UNDOUSTEDLY VOICING A GENERAL OPINION.

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