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olcctricity supply came from Cantony and was apparently ovozstrained• To keep the light from his eyes Knight developed the habit of sleeping with a pillow ovor his head. This move was designed too to deaden the noise from a series of three loudspeakers somewhere nearby which were publicly broadcasting the Thoughts of XAO and revolutionary songs from 06.00 to 22.00 hours daily. The use of his pillow in this way coupled with blankets covering his whole body, phs the mosquito net, made it, of course, difficult
During his detention to actually see more than a bulky form on the bed. Knight paid particuler attention to the pattern of behaviour and movements of his guards. He noticed that most evenings the two off-duty guards wont
02 off apparently to come form of training and were absent for some hours. the two remaining on duty, it was customary for one of them to go for a bath at about 20.00 hours each evening. The remaining guard would also occasionall
Of the bo called away to the telephone, sited along the verandah, in earshot. two sets of guards one was particularly alert whilo the other waş rolatively slack. The door leading to the verandah and the gardon, which was the only door into the room, was kept closed at night by a rope on the outside, tied through the handles. As mentioned earlier tho guards did not normally cone into his room between the hours of 18.30 and 06.00 but merely looked through the window from time to time.
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On the whole the treatment he received was good. No apparent determined attempt was made to obtain intelligence or brain-wash him. guards were pleasant and discouraged curious people from viciting him. only mattor which troubled Knight to any oxtont wore the muggoubiónu mado by the "ponnantu roprosentativo" to the offect that the liong Kong Government was not`intorostod in his return, and consequently wore not making determined offorts to get him back, and his great disappointment on the 4th Novembor when told he was not, after all, being released.
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Although there had been talk of negotiations for his return to Hong Kong, Knight was of the opinion that any demands made by the 0.2.0. were likely to be of such a nature, as to preclude their acceptance by the Hong Kong Government. This belief was strengthened by the refusal of his interviewers to inform him of the conditions that had boen laid down. 35 days incarceration he considered too, that a sufficient period of vine had already passed for a negotiated settlement, and he folt obliged, therefor
to do something on his own.
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