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19 AUGMOC
ORITY HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
Telno. 1005
17 August 1968
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Addressed to C.0. telegram No. 1005 of 17 August Repeated for information to:
756) Peking.
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Your telegrams Nos. 1362 and 1386: Detainees and Exit Visas.
Provided there are no unusual developments in the meantime I propose to release another three detainees next Tuesday, 20 August.
2. I appreciate the point made in paragraph 2 of your telegram No. 1386. I should in any case see some local advantage in releasing detainees in small groups rather than in a single group of 10 or so. I propose therefore that we should follow the policy of matching the trickle of exit visas with a trickle of releases of detainees subject to examination of the circumstances at each time and without aiming at arithmetical equality. I think the increasing flow of releases will still be noted by the Chinese even if they are in small groups and that we shall not lose anything in comparison with the alternative of releasing in a large group of 10 or so.
3. Hopson has seen this telegram and agrees.
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Sir D. Trench
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