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From The Minister of State

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

13 February, 1969.

1987

Since the affairs of Hong Kong fall within my purview, Bill Whitlock has passed on to me your 176 letter to him of 30 January about the imprisonment

of children in Hong Kong as a result of their participation in the disturbances which occurred in the Colony during 1967.

I too am very concerned that there should still be young persons in prison as a result of the dis- turbances. But I must point out that the behaviour of these young offenders did not match their tender years, as you will see from the following details of the cases of each of the five persons concerned:

(1) On the 20th September, 1967, a fourteen year

old boy placed a travelling bag containing a real bomb in a road. He was charged with the possession of an offensive weapon and sentenced to four years imprisonment.

(2) On the 10th October, 1967, a fourteen year old boy placed two bombs under the Chatham Road flyover in Kowloon. Both bombs were exploded by a ballistics ream, one being real and the other a simulated bomb. was charged with possession of an offensive

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