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RUTHING TO DE WNITION IN IND MARGIN

Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

.In Confidence

Copy to:

J. B. Denson, Esq., OBE. Peking.

(STRICTLY

PERSONAL)

DRAFT Letter

To:-

A.F.Maddocks,

Hong Kong

CONFIDENTIAL

Type 1 +

From

J. A. L. Morgan

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

Female Confrontation Prisoners

You will have seen from paragraph 2 of my letter

of 13 November to John Denson that the Chinese Chargé

d'Affairs told me firmly that the release of the two

further sick prisoners was not enough to secure the

release of Johnston. According to Ma a further

gesture on our part is required.

2.

You will recall that during our most memorable

afternoon at Stanley Gaol the Commissioner of Prisons

volunteered that he thought he would have no difficulty

in the release of some seven or eight women

confrontation prisoners. I presume that this was

based solely on some special consideration for their

sex. I seem to recall that he said that all had

behaved very well in prison.

3. We said at the time that we should like to

concentrate for the moment on sick prisoners but that

if that did not do the trick we should then like to

consider whether something could be arranged with the

women.

CONFIDENTIAL

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