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Sir John Tilney told me this morning that Mrs Elliott

will be going to the House of Commons on 18 December. Mr James

Johnson MP had originally arranged a meeting of Labour MP's only;

but Sir John had thought it wise to take this over. She will

therefore address a meeting of the Hong Kong Parliamentary Group

at 5 p.m. on 18 December. He expects a full house. I said I

imagined Mrs Elliott would concentrate on the general question

of corruption in Hong Kong and her claim to have been victimised

by corrupt policemen at the time of the Star Ferry riots.

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I suggested that Sir John might follow the line we used

in the recent PQ that Mrs Elliott's allegations were mainly of

conspiracy, and had been fully investigated by the Judicial

Commission. As for any corruption aspects it was for the Hong

Kong Government, not for us, to consider whether these could

usefully be investigated by the new Anti-Corruption Commission.

Mrs Elliott should welcome the Commission and be prepared to work

with it.

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Sir John said that he would be following this line. He

also said that there might have to be some press statement after

the meeting; but he would try to insist from the Chair that this

would be no more than an announcement that Mrs Elliott had been

to the House of Commons and had met MP's there.

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