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mother as there were no other relatives to
give assistance but there has been no response yet. Our
Mission in Peking lodged an application with the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs for an interview to discuss
case on 5 December but despite repeated telephone calls this
has not been granted yet. We understand from the Chartered
Bank that the oumulative effect of not being able to
communicate with her husband, the refusal of the Chinese to
grant her visa and some petty harassment such as the delaying
of her mail have affected
is in a very nervous condition.
health and that she
The Shanghai Manager of
the Pakistan International Airlines reported to our Mission
in Peking on 21 January that
was now very tense
and heavily dependent on drink and sleeping pills.
7. In the meantime the Chartered Bank have been pressing us
to give some publicity to
case. It was
difficult for us to do this while the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank were negotiating the release of
about
would undoubtedly have brought in
Publicity
and the Hong Kong Bank naturally feared that this
The Chartered Bank
would prejudice their negotiations.
accepted this and we agreed therefore to use the arrival of
in Hong Kong as the occasion for publicity for
However, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank had
given assurances to their Chinese contacts that they would
play down the release of
possible to use this opportunity.
so that it was not
We have explained to the
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