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asked him to take an early opportunity of mentioning this to the

Governor, as we do not want to go behind his back.

6.

Mr Royle's offer did not deter Mr Ellis from writing his

further letters of 7 December and 7 January in which he again asks

how HMG can accept as adequate the two internal Hong Kong police

enquiries of 1963 and 1965. He also asks separate questions about

the export of gold from the UK, the possibility of elections to Hong

Kong's Legislative Council and the possible bearing on the Godber

case of the Warren Hastings trial of 1788. These enquiries are,

at best, misconceived but Mr Ellis is genuinely interested in the

Godber case and I think we should give him a proper reply.

7.

It is, in fact, impossible to separate the corruption from

the administrative aspects of Mr Ellis's own case. One of his main

complaints is that he was not asked to give evidence at the enquiry

in Hong Kong in 1965. But it is evident from his meeting with the

Overseas Police Adviser last year, that his "evidence" would have been

simply that his dismissal from Hong Kong had been the result of the

"corruption conspiracy". This aspect of the case apart, there is

little left of his complaints. As it has turned out it was perhaps

a tactical error on the Hong Kong Government's part that he was not

invited to make further representations in person in 1965, since it

has given him a peg on which to hang his abiding discontent;

decision was not administratively improper.

Recommendation

8.

but the

Whatever

I fear we are unlikely ever to satisfy Mr Ellis.

the rights and wrongs of the case it has now reached the stage of an

obsession. But we can try to convince him that in asking the

Independent Commission Against Corruption to look into his case, we

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