TNAG-0197-FCO40-233-Action-against-communist-trade-union-officials-1970 — Page 18

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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

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Secret**

Confidential

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Unclassifred

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Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s).

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CYPHER

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In Confidence

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Code Cypher

Draft Telegram to:

Gov Hong Kong

No.

(Date)

And to

[Codeword-if any]

Addressed to

Gov.

HONG KONG

telegram ................

557

..(date)

278

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PEKING

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Repeat to: Peking

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FED HKD

Mr. Wilford

Sir S. Tomlinson

Sir E. Peck

Copies to:-

EXAMINED AT 1.8.

SHMATTRE

1.8.3....

WOMAN

Your telegram No. 658 of 20 August: Arrest of

communist trade union official.

It is unfortunate that this affair should have come

to a head just now. We had been-hoping that things

might pass off quietly and uncontroversially in Hong

Kong until the time comes in October for the Chinese to

fulfil their undertaking over Grey.

2.

At the stage which the case of Ng Yee has reached,

we presume that there is now no alternative to letting

Is them овятся нал the law take its course. When are the verdict and

might be delapse until after mid. Octoter sentence to be expected?

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3. We fully understand that persons still wanted for

serious offences committed during the troubles of 1967

must inevitably present you with a problem. In the

interests of ensuring a proper respect for the law in

the colony, it is admittedly undesirable to let offenders go unpunished particularly if it were to

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