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RESIDENCE, 93277
Mr. John Tilney, M.P.
House of Commons,
London, S. W. 1,
ENGLAND.
28th November, 1968.
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My dear John,
You may have read recently certain correspondence in The Times initiated by a letter from John Rear (Lecture at the Hong Kong University) concerning the Emergency Regu- lations in Hong Kong. This has become a very heated local
issue.
In the November 16, issue of The Times Mr. Anthony Royle (Chairman of the All Party Anglo-Hongkong Committee) stated that Mr. P. CA M. Sedgwick, Director of the Hong Kong Government Office in London, had demolished the alle- gations made against the Hong Kong Government concerning its attitude over detainees.
The Bar Committee of the Hong Kong Bar Association (of which I am Secretary) feels strongly that the Hong Kong Government has misrepresented the position regarding the Emergency Regulations, and I should like to enlist your support on this issue.
Mr. Sedgwick's letter reproduces word-for-word a statement issued by the Hong Kong Government on the same day as his letter was published and it seen's
reasonable to
3.3 sune that it is the Hong Kong Government's official state- ment in this matter. It seems Lo the Bar Committee of the
letter in no Hong Kong Bar Association that Mr. Sedgwick's
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