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NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
GOVERNOR HONG
No.
KONG
(Date) 13/7/73
And to:-
Repeat to:-
Mistrant
mimite
Below.
Saving to:-
Distribution:-
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CAMA
1617.
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OPA
Legal Advisers
News Dept
PS/Mr Royle
Copiex toxxxx
Sir D Watson Nr Wilford
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Addressed to
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GOVERNOR HONG KONG
...(date)
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO 722: REPORT ON GODBER CALS
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1.
No objection to publication of the report co
the assumption that the reason is to allay publie
suspicion that senior officials helped Godbe te
leave the country, and that you regard this
important than the possible prejudice to legl
procedings described in the introduction to
report.
2. The report (page 27) and your telegram u
reference suggest that Section 10(2) of the tedi
was inserted to meet the criticisms of our
the P advisers. This is not so. The objection
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Section 10 as a whole, which breaches the preem
principle that it is the duty of the prosecution
prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. Thi
not cured by Section 10(2), which, as the report
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