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Mr Crown

ECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51

PERSONAL

20 SEP 1973

Dear Duncan.

MKK14/16

COLONIAL SECRETARIAT,

HONG KONG.

4 August 1973 (156)

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The Governor has asked me to reply on his behalf to your Personal and Confidential letter to him of the 24th July 1973, in which you asked for an analysis of the grounds on which reprieves have been granted in Hong Kong in recent years.

I enclose a note of all the cases which have been before Executive Council since November 1966. This covers the period during which I have been a member of Executive Council.

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As you will appreciate, no actual reasons for commutation are recorded in the Executive Council Minutes; therefore the attached "Reasons for Commutation" are based on the notes which I used during discussion of the cases in Council and my own memory of what occurred. Consequently, the reasons cannot be regarded as wholly accurate.

In the last paragraph of your letter of the 24th July, 156) 166 Governor's letter to you of the 8th March 1973, to be brought

you asked for the crime figures which were enclosed with the

up to date and I attach a new table which includes the figures for 1972 and the first half of 1973.

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(D.T.E. Hoberts)

Acting Colonial Secretary

Sir Duncan Watson, KCMG,

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London SW1A 2AH

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