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CIVIL LIBERTIES IN HONG KONG

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A 1. A further letter from Mr Bowen Wells MP to Lord

Caithness about the loudspeaker prosecutions.

Recommendation

I submit a draft reply, designed to draw this

correspondence to a close.

Background

3.

This is the fourth letter from Mr Bowen Wells on this

subject. The previous correspondence (Lord Caithness' letter of 17 September; Mr Wells' letters of 25 June, DEF 9 July, and 14 August; Mrs Chalker's letter of 6 August and

Mr Maude's letter of 29 June) is attached.

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4. I think that Mr Bowen Wells has over-reacted to the

contents of Lord Caithness' letter of 17 September. By no

stretch of the imagination could paragraph three of that letter be described as a "lecture". Nor is there anything

in the tone to which one could reasonably take exception. By contrast, Mr Bowen Wells' tone, both in this letter and in earlier correspondence, leaves something to be desired.

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