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WIB'L 51.74 33

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted.

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

But

Amane

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ise sottoary to

consulted the

веты аво

Chin

DRAFT LETTER

To:-

J. Johnson, Esq.,

M.P.,

House of Commons,

Type 1 +

Lord

From

169

Shepherd

Telephone No. & Ext.

S.W.1.

Type:

Pusome and Confident

Department

Chad

you

trepted

I am sorry that have not been in a

uplo

position to reply earlier/to your letter of

to Genge Thomank

8th October, 1968, with which you enclosed a

copy of a letter from Mrs. Elsie Elliott of

تسمية

Hong Kong on the subject of the Mount Davis

bate. This commuts have

Detention Camp.

lean reunind

I have now received th

Governor's comments, and the position is as

follower

The Mount Davis Detention Camp (the

"concentration camp" referred to in the

"Letter of Protest" enclosed with Mrs. Elliott's

letter) is, in fact, the Victoria Road

Detention Centre. The "Letter of Protest" is

It was

a Communist document which was published both

in Chinese and in English in the main Communist

newspapers in Hong Kong last year.

undoubtedly written for propaganda purposes and,

designed to vilify the Hong Kong Government and

the Hong Kong Police Force. It can in no sense

be regarded as an impartial and objective

comment.

Bor

As regards the various allegations

contained in the "Letter of Protest", I do not]

think that I can do better than let you see

pamant and

n/confidential information, the

for your own/co

enclosed copies of two reports by Mr. H. Hefti,

the representative in Hong Kong of the

International Red Cross Committee, in Geneva,

related correspondence between

together with a copy of a letter to Mr. Hefti

A

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