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Dr. Gammara
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG.
Sir A. Galsworthy has mistmeted
that this should be submitted to hard.
Shepherd.
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Pise discuss before drafting. Isa Dear Arltur-
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23rd December, 1968.
I promised to write to you early on
the subject of detainees, and Regulation 31, as soon as I had had a chance to review the current situation.
In our last weekly review, we once again covered the cases of all the remaining 16 detainees again with a view to releasing as many as possible as rapidly as is at all justifiable. A schedule (covering all the cases, for completeness sake) is attached, and you will see that by the end of the first week in January I expect only 6 to be still in custody. Of the 10 to be released, one, No. 15, is a particularly dangerous thug who will be coming out at the end of his 1 year. I will be releasing him with the greatest reluctance, and would have preferred to have seen a fresh order made against him; but please see more about him below.
To deal now with the six who will be remaining in custody after 6th January. Five of these are our most dangerous customers and are all still capable of causing a lot of trouble. (No. 46 is a rather special case there are developments over the Chung Wah School premises which need watching for a time before he is released.) I cannot promise premature release of any of these five except perhaps under the circumstances discussed below.
Sir Arthur Galsworthy, KCMG, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, S.W. 1.
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