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The Right tion. Patrick Jenkin, M.P.
House of Commons,
S.W.1.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
You wrote on 10 February to the Secretary of
State, who is abroad, on the subject of Chu Leung's
petition against his dismissal from the Hong Kong Police.
I am sorry that you have had no interim reply on this
matter.
The material which we have now received from Hong
Kong shows that Chu, a special branch officer, was
dismissed from the force in February 1962, following
disciplinary proceedings under the Police Force Ordinance
November 1962 on charges of disloyalty. In February 1965 when it was
proposed that he be deprived of his U.K. and Colonies
citizenship, which he had acquired by naturalisation, he
exercised the right to have his case referred to a Committee
of Enquiry, who recommended that his citizenship should
not be withdrawn.
The two decisions are not incompatible but clearly The case is deserving of The most careful
condictivation
subhelves tire case
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nood. further videration before the Secretary of State
advised asto
his reply to the petition. This further
consideration is likely to take some time, I will
write again when it has been completed.
Khi chu
has not
not however
and his delay
previously petitioned against
this dismissal
in doing so means, I fear, that
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