21 AUG 1968
SCR 6/2621/67
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15th August, 1968.5
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I am sorry as to having been so slow in answering your letter PEK/4 of 22nd July about confrontation prisoners. taken longer than I expected.
2.
There were certainly not "over 1,000 agitators" still in jail on 16th July. The total number of male confrontation prisoners including young prisoners remaining on 1st August was 495 (including the 3 under life sentence). 259 of those are due for release by the end of this year, the breakdown being as follows :-
August September
69
79
October
49.
November
33
December
30
3.
In addition there were 58 female prisoners left on 1st August, the rate of release in 1968 being:-
August
124
September
7
October
3
November
December
3
8
(I give these figures separately to avoid confusion: the figures quoted by Anthony Elliott in his letter of 16th April were for male prisoners only. You will note that both these figures and those in paragraph 2 differ slightly from those quoted in Hong Kong Saving Despatch No. 973. This is because changes in remission etc., affect release dates the figures in fact need constant revision).
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You also asked about Cheung Sha Wan playground arrests. 11th to 14th June, 32 arrests were made as a result of incidents at the playground. 6 of those arrested were released without being charged; 8 were charged and subsequently released; and 18 were convicted. The sentences imposed on those convicted varied from a maximum of 18 months to being bound-over. 7 of the 18 are now in jail.
5./...
G.G.H. Walden, Esq.,
Peking.
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