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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1

Mrs E Elliott

55 Kung Lok Road

Kwun Tong

Kowloon

HONG KONG

Telephone 01-

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Date

8 February 1974

Dear The Elliott,

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Thank you for your letter of 30 January. I am sorry if the fact that I forwarded your earlier letter of 7 January to the Colonial Secretary has annoyed you. But you did not in fact ask me not to. your letter and in our telephone conversation you only said that you would consider it a waste of time to do so.

But as I also said in our conversation, action on these matters has got to be taken in Hong Kong. That is what the new Commission Against Corruption is for. I would most sincerely ask you once again to give the Commission a chance. If people of influence and goodwill such as yourself, publicly write the Commission off before it has even begun its work, then what hope can it have of success? Your interest is surely the same as the Hong Kong Government's, and our's, that the Commission should succeed. You know as well as anyone that the problems are enormous and that the exercise will essentially be a long term affair. But this is a reason for more support for the Commission, not less.

Yours sincerely Adaw Slaa

A C Stuart

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.

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DTE Roberts Esp CBE Q Colonial Secretary Hong Kong