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Office of the British Charge

d'Affaires,

Peking.

22 January, 1970.

We were grateful to receive your telegram No. 9 reporting the results of the inquest on Tang Chuen. We look forward to receiving in due course a copy of the proceedings of the inquest, or whatever document is normally made available to relatives or other interested parties. We would then, subject to agreement by you and London, address a further Note to the Chinese following up that of 14 January (of which a copy was sent to you) enclosing the relevant document and stating that the findings of the inquest proved conclusively that the death was from natural causes. Since the cause of death was "cirrhosis of the liver and intestinal bleeding" and not hepatitis as originally diagnosed, I think it would be desirable to provide as much medical detail as possible.

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I am sending a copy of this letter to James Murray in Far Eastern Department.

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Hong Kong.

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