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CYPHER/CAT A

CONFIDENTIAL

PRIORITY PEKING TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELNO 19

NFIDENTIAL

10 JANUARY 1970

ADDRESSED TO FCO TELNO 19 OF 10 JANUARY REPEATED FOR INF-

ORMATION (PRIORITY) TO HONG KONG.

YOUR TELNO 20 TO HONG KONG AND HONG KONG TELNO 16: T'ANG

CHUEN.

SINCE IT MAY BE SOME LITTLE TIME UNTIL RESULTS OF INQUEST

ARE AVAILABLE, I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR AUTHORITY TO PASS TO

THE CHINESE CONTENTS OF PARA 1 (OMITTING LAST TWO SENTENCES)

AND PARA 2 OF HONG KONG TELNO 4 TO PEKING. I WOULD ADD

THAT RESULTS OF THE INQUEST, THE PROCEEDINGS OF WHICH WERE TO

BEGIN ON 15 JANUARY, WERE AWAITED. AT THE SAME TIME IT

WOULD BE MADE CLEAR THAT THE ALLEGATIONS OF ILL-TREATMENT

WERE REJECTED BY HMG.

282) Ree

2. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO RUT THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON A POINT

OF DETAIL. HONG KONG TELNO 950, AS RECEIVED HERE, SAID

THAT T'ANG WAS ADMITTED TO STANLEY PRISON HOSPITAL ON 28

DECEMBER. HONG KONG TELNO 4 SHOWS THAT HE WAS IN FACT

ADMITTED TO THAT HOSPITAL ON I DECEMBER.

re

MR. DENSON

FILES

F.E.D.

H.K.D.

P.U.S.D.

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51

LAPT

REF

12 JAN 1970

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A&A.

REF.

10

I.R.D.

NEWS DEPT

MR.WILFORD

LAKK 1/12

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