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From The Minister of State
1 1 JUL 1977
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The Rt Hon The Lord Goronwy-Roberts
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Dear posting.
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Mr for min hellone. Comfamn, fileft.
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When I wrote to you on 30 May about the death
sentences passed in Hong Kong on two British soldiers, Gunner Puttock and Trooper Bassett, I promised to let you know when the Governor had reached a decision on their petitions for clemency. You will want to know that on 5 July the Governor, on the advice of his Executive Council, ordered that the sentences of death on the two soldiers should be commuted to life imprisonment.
The Rt Hon Geoffrey Rippon QC MP
House of Commons
London SW1A OAA
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