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COUNSELLOR'S TELEGRAM NO 1272 OF 10 NOVEMBER.
I AGREE AND HAVE NO FURTHER COMMENTS.
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REFERENCE OUR TEL 1272.
PARAGRAPH 1 PLEASE AMEND TO READ,.... AND AGREE THAT WE SHOULD
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO 1016: CONFRONTATION PRISONERS.
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1. WHILST 1 HAVE SOME SYMPATHY WITH THE VIEW THAT THE FOUR
REALLY SERIOUS OFFENDERS SHOULD PAY A PROPER PENALTY FOR THEIR
CRIMES 1 AM CONCERNED THAT, BY POSTPONING A DECISION ABOUT THEIR CASES,
WE MAY ULTIMATELY BE FORCED INTO A POSITION WHERE WE HAVE TO DISCUSS
SWAPPING THE THREE BRITISH DETAINEES, WHO ARE CERTAINLY UNDESERVING BUT
NONETHELESS CONTINUE TO EVOKE A
CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PRESS INTEREST, FOR THE FOUR REMAINING CONFRONTATION
PRISONERS IN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THE CHINESE
MIGHT TRY TO BARGAIN FOR LOCAL RELEASE RATHER THAN DEPORTATION.
I CERTAINLY THINK THAT WE SHOULD TRY ON THE CHINESE THE SUGGESTION
ANNOUNCE IN THE GOVERNOR'S PARAGRAPH 4 AND AGREE THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE
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THIS AS A UNILATERAL ACT AND WITHOUT IN ANY WAY ASSOCIATING
IT EITHER WITH CHOU EN-LAI'S REMARKS OR WITH THE THREE BRITISH
DETAINEES, BUT IF THE CHINESE MERELY TAKE NOTE AND DO NOT
THEN RELEASE THE BRITISH DETAINEES I SUGGEST THAT WE SHOULD SERIOUSLY
CONSIDER 'DEPORTATION OF THE FOUR REMAINING PRISONERS WITHIN THE NEXT
SIX MONTHS AS A UNILATERAL ACT AND
ON LINES OF CHINESE DEPORTATION OF THE FARMER BROTHERS IE THAT HAVING
TAKEN OUR DECISION WE SHOULD GIVE THE CHINESE 24 HOURS
FORMAL NOTICE AND PRESENT THE FOUR PRISONERS AT THE BORDER THE
FOLLOWING DAY.
2. THE AMBASSADOR, WHO IS AT PRESENT IN CANTON, MAY WISH TO
COMMENT FURTHER ON HIS RETURN ON MONDAY.
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TO ROUTINE F C O TELKO 1837 OF 8TH NOVEMBER, 1972, INFO ROUTINE
PEKING.
REGLARY:
CONFRONTATION PRISOMERS.
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I PROMISED TO CONSIDER WHAT ROOM WE HAVE, FOR MANOEUVRE.
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2. I THINK WE WERE AGREED THAT THE CHINESE INTEREST IN THE PRISONERS
WAS PROBABLY LARGELY A RESPONSE TO YOUR ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE
BRITISH DETAINEES IN CHINA THEY WOULD RELEASE THE LATTER IF WE
RELEASED THE FORMER, OR ALTERNATIVELY THEY WOULD COMPLAIN SO LONG AS WE
DID, WHILE THE BRITISH DETAINEES ARE SINGULARLY
UNDESERVING, TO GET THEM OUT WOULD BE A SMALL THING OUT OF THE WAY (IN
BOTH PARLIAMENTARY AND ANGLO-CHINESE TURKS) AND YOU
ASKED ME WHAT WE COULD DO.
3. IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO BOTH OURSELVES AND THE CHINESE HAVE
KEPT THIS PROBLEM OF THE CONFRONTATION PRISONERS AND THE UNOBTRUSIVE.
REDUCTION OF ITS SIZE OUT OF THE HEADLINES. BUT FOLLOWING THE
PRESS CONFERENCES IN PEKING AND HERE THERE HAS NOW BEEN SOME SHARP
CRITICISM HERE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF A SWAP. OTHER THINGS BEING
EQUAL THEREFORE | WOULD PREFER TO STAND ON THE TERMS SET OUT IN 52 MY
LETTER TO ILFORD OF GTI JULY, 1.E. 4 MORE RELEASES UP TO NEXT
APRIL, THE CHINESE TO BE NOTIFIED AS EACH RELEASE OCCURS, AND IF, AND
ONLY IF, THE CHINESE THEN PRESS US ABOUT THE REMAINING 4 (FOR WHOM ANY
CLEMENCY WOULD DE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT) TO OFFER
DEPORT THEM TO CHINA,
1. HOWEVER, IF THIS WOULD HELP THE BRITONS WE COULD AGREE TO
BUNCH! THE RELEASES SO THAT ALL & WOULD BE OUT BEFORE CHINESE
NEW YEAR, 1.E. 4TH FEBRUARY, AND THE CHINESE COULD BE INFORMED NOW THAT
THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
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5. I WOULD PREFER THIS TO BE A UNILATERAL AND NOT A CONDITIONAL
ACT. THIS 13 BOTH TO AVOID A HAGGLE, AND TO AVOID ANYTHING THAT
COULD BE REPRESENTED AS A SWAP.
5. IF THE CHINESE ENQUIRED ABOUT THE REMAINING 4,
SUGGEST CUR INITIAL RESPONSE SHOULD BE THAT THESE MEN WERE ALL
CONVICTED FOR PARTICULARLY SERIOUS CRIMES WHICH
INVOLVED KILLING OR SERIOUSLY WOUNDING, AND THE QUESTION OF
CLEMENCY DOES NOT ARISE FOR THE TIME BEING.
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MY TELNO 1232. CONFRONTATION PRISONERS AND BRITISH DETAINEES. AT
SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH CHOU EN-LAI ON
1 NOVEMBER CHOU SAID THAT HE INTENDED TO RELEASE THE DETAINEES. HE DID
NOT TIE THEIR RELEASE TO THOSE OF THE CONFRONTATION PRISONERS. HE
EXPRESSED THE HOPE, HOWEVER, THAT THE PROBLEM OF THE LATTER COULD BE
RESOLVED. SECRETARY OF STATE SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO DISCUSS THE
QUESTION WITH THE GOVERNOR
AND THAT THERE WERE DIFFICULTIES IN DOING SO.
2. SINCE THE MEETING HEAD OF INFORMATION DEPT AT MFA
HAS SPOKEN TO LEAHY ABOUT WHAT PRESS LINE SHOULD BE TAKEN. FROM THIS IT
EMERGED THAT CHINA DO NOT INTEND ACTUALLY TO MAKE RELEASES UNTIL THEY
SEE SOME ACTION ON OUR PART. THIS IS LESS
SATISFACTORY.
3. THE AGREED PRESS LINE IS
THE CASE OF DETAINEES WAS
RAISED BY S OF S AND ALSO BY PUS IN THE TALKS WHICH HE HAD WITH MR
CHANG....THE CHINESE CONFIRMED THAT THEY ARE REVIEWING THESE CASES AND S
OF S HOPES THAT WITH THE IMPROVEMENT IN OUR
RELATIONS MATTERS OF THIS KIND CAN BE PESOLVED.
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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELEGRAM NO 1230 OF 3 NOVEMBER/INFO IMMEDIATE GOVERNOR
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MY TELEGRAM NO 1202.
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1. LAST SENTENCE DOES NOT REPRESENT MY VIEWS. I DO NOT AT ALL EXCLUDE
THE POSSIBILITY OF THE CHINESE AGREEING TO EXPULSION OF THE
CONFRONTATION PRISONERS ON CONDITION OF THEIR RESTRICTED RESIDENCE IN
CHINA. MY IMPRESSION IS THAT CHANG'S COMMENT ON EXPULSION WAS DIRECTED
AT THE QUESTION OF THE BRITISH DETAINEES,
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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 1272 OF 1 NOVEMBER AND TO IMMEDIATE
HONG KONG PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR,
CONFRONTATION PRISONERS.
AT A MEETING OF OFFICIALS ON 31 OCTOBER CHANG WEN-CHIN, IN THE CONTEXT
OF WHAT THE S OF S HAD SAID AT THE MINISTERIAL MEETING THAT MORNING
ABOUT BRITISH DETAINEES, BROUGHT UP THE QUESTION OF CONFRONTATION
PRISONERS. HE SAID THAT HE DID NOT
WISH TO GO OVER OLD GROUND ABOUT THE SENTENCES OF THE COURTS
OR OF THE TRIALS THEMSELVES, BUT PROPOSED THAT THIS MATTER AND THAT OF
THE DETAINEES SHOULD BE SETTLED IN THE VERY NEAR
FUTURE. THE INFERENCE WAS THAT THE CONFRONTATION PRISONERS
SHOULD BE RELEASED IN EXCHANGE FOR THE DETAINEES. SIR D. GREENHILL AFTER
STRESSING THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE TWO CASES WERE QUITE DIFFERENT
SAID THAT HE COULD GIVE NO ANSWER BUT ONLY REPORT THE PROPOSITION, HE
ENQUIRED, HOWEVER, WHETHER
WHEN CHANG SPOKE OF ''RELEASE'' HE MEANT IN THE COUNTRY IN
WHICH THEY WERE HELD OR WHETHER EXPULSION WOULD BE INVOLVED. (HE HAD IN
MIND THE POSSIBILITY THAT THIS WAS A HINT THAT CONFRONTATION PRISONERS
MIGHT BE ACCEPTED INTO CHINA IF RELEASED). CHANG SAID THAT HE DID NOT
MEAN EXPULSION AND WHEN PRESSED
SAID THAT HE DID NOT EXCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME OF OUR
DETAINEES BEING ALLOWED TO STAY IN CHINA.
2. CHANG STRESSED THAT HIS PROPOSAL WAS MADE IN THE
CONTEXT OF IMPROVING SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS AND OF THE S OF S'S VISIT TO
PEKING. IT WAS THE MOMENT TO GET RID OF THIS RUNNING
SORE IN OUR RELATIONS.
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3. S OF S WILL WISH TO DISCUSS THE CASES WITH THE GOVERNOR WHEN IN HONG
KONG, A DIRECT SWAP OF THIS KIND IS OBVIOUSLY OPEN TO GRAVE OBJECTION
UNLESS THE CHINESE WERE TO ACCEPT THE PRISONERS INTO CHINA AND TO
GUARANTEE THAT EXCLUSION FROM THE COLONY TILL THEIR SENTENCES HAD
EXPIRED. EVEN IF THE MEN CONCERNED WERE ALL WILLING TO GO TO CHINA, ON
WHICH THERE IS NO CERTAINTY, THE CHINESE GOVT WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT
ACCEPT THIS CONDITION.
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TO PRIORITY HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO 79 OF 20 OCTOBER INFO
PRIORITY FCO.
CONFRONTATION PRISONERS,
1.
PARAGRAPH 3 OF YOUR TELEGRAM NO 944 TO FCO.
FEH
FEH 14!!
GRATEFUL FOR CONFIRMATION THAT PRISONERS CONCERNED ARE YAU WAI AND LEUNG
PUN (YOUR LETTER SCR 7/3371/68 11 OF 6 JULY TO WILFORD).
2.
IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU COULD CONTINUE SENDING US ADVANCE
CONFIRMATION OF RELEASES SO THAT WE CAN FULFIL ASSURANCES GIVEN BY MR
ROYLE TO CH'IAO KUAN-HUA (MY TELEGRAM NO 732 TO FCO) BY INFORMING THE
CHINESE.
3. CONSULAR DEPARTMENT RAISED THE QUESTION OF CONFRONTATION PRISONERS
WITH US ONCE AGAIN DURING DISCUSSION OF THE FARMER DEPORTATION BUT ONLY
IN FAIRLY MILD AND GENERAL TERMS.
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Consular Department
Kinistry of Foreign Affairs People's Republic of Chine
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R.E.
You will wish to be aware that as a part of the
continuing prosess of review of prison sentences in Hong Kong, a
reduction has been made in the sentence of a prisoner sentenced in 1967.
As a result ons prisoner whose prospective date of release was
originally 3 February 1973 was released on 14 July.
The process of review of sentences by the arison Board of Review will
continue, as will normal releases.
I take this opportunity to convey to you sy best
wishes.
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TELNO 66 OF 12 JULY TO PEKING: CONFRONTATION PRISONERS,
1. IN VIEW OF ASSURANCES GIVEN BY MR ROYLE TO MR CHIAO KUAN-HUA (PARA 15
OF RECORD A OF CONVERSATION) I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO CONTINUE TO INFORM
THE MFA OF RELEASES. THEREFORE WHEN CALLING ON DEPUTY HEAD OF CONSULAR
DEPARTMENT, MFA, ON OTHER BUSINESS ON 19 JULY, COUNSELLOR HANDED HIM A
LETTER ADDRESSED TO HEAD OF CONSULAR DEPARTMENT (CHANG TSAN-MING)
INFORMING HIM IN USUAL TERMS OF EARLY RELEASE OF ONE PRISONER (CHAN YIK)
AS A RESULT OF LATEST BOARD OF REVIEW.
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