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Plea for leftists held
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HONG KONG, Dec. 28.
TWO left wing Hong Kong VIP room on Hana Vas- newspapers to-day published letters from relatives of people detained during the 1967 leftist riots here demanding their imme- diate release.
The letters-published three days after the British banker, Mr. David Johnston, arrived here after 28 months' detention in China-claimed the detainees had suffered severe mental and physical torture.
Over 70 people are still serving
The first sakko in the campaign about the indignation felt by the
prison sentences out of about relatives of the confrontation prisoners,
1,000 arrested during the distur- bances.
The letters appeared in the Chinese-language Wen Wei Pao and Ta Kung Pao newspapers,
which Mr. Pei embanced as in his
Hong Kong's two main pro-Peking in mismasins with you.
journals. The letters alleged that the detainees had been arrested without reason and con- FI victed on trumped-up charges. Na "They have been victims of Ki severe beatings, diseases, cold, wil hunger and torture," the letter in the Wen Wei Pao said.
"We demand that the Hong Kong British authorities im- mediately release all our kith and kin and give them freedom,” it added.
The letter in the Ta Kung Pao contained similar allegations of cruelty and a "solemn demand ' for the detainees' releases.
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Mr. Johnston, the former man- ager of the Shanghai branch of d the Chartered Bank, left for London to-night. Asked if he was feeling better after three days' rest in Hong Kong, the 56- year-old banker told reporters: 47: "A sort of reaction has set in." His wife Elizabeth who flew here from England to meet him at the border, said: We will feel much better on the plane"
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