TNAG-0400-FCO40-446-Review-of-the-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 66

There are other alternatives on which I have

asked for the Governor's preliminary views, as in the

attached telegram.

None of this helps me very much with this particular

But if the case on which I have to advise The Queen.

political reasons above were overwhelming I would have (against my reading of the actual case) to advise

clemency and give no public reason.

ALLS POU

10 May, 1973

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, S.W.1.

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