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Thank you for your letter of 25th March (PEX/3) asking about the numbers
of confrontation prisoners still in custody in Hong Kong. Below is a
list giving numbers due for release in the next few years. I hesitate to
add that in addition to those listed there are three prisoners who are
under life sentence for bombing offences.
Release Dates of Prisoners due for Release. Ova * Stanley from 1/4/1968
Year
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
Number due for Release
422
147
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I am sending a copy of this letter to James Murray in the Far Eastern
Department.
(T.A.K. Elliott)
P. Cradock həq., C.M.G.,
Office of the British
Chargé d'Affaires,
PEKING.
c.c. J. Murray Esq., C.M.G.
Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office.
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HONG KONG
In the course of discussions which I had with the
Governor in Hong Kong last January, he expressed concern
lest, now that the campaign of violence had been dropped,
Whitehall would be only too happy to forget about Hong Kong
and sweep its problems under the carpet. I assured him I
had noticed no tendency whatsoever on the part of the Common-
wealth Office to do this, and that we in the Office were well
aware that there were no grounds for complacency.
He said,
however, that he was more concerned about other Departments
like the Board of Trade which, to judge from correspondence
which bis officers were receiving, seemed to take it that
everything in Hong Kong was now back to normal. I told him
that I would do my best to arrange for a formal communication
to him to the effect that H.K.G. were fully aware of the
continuing threat to Hong Kong and saw no grounds for complacency,
and for the distribution of this communication to the relevant
Departments in Whitehall.
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2. The Governor's despatch of 13 February reviewing develop-
ments since last June seemed to provide a suitable occasion,
and I proposed to the Commonwealth Office that in their reply
they should bear in mind my undertaking to the Governor.
The
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reply (despatch HWB 13/7 of 16 April) was a long time in
preparation. But it does meet the requirement;
been given an appropriate distribution.
James Many
(James Murray)
1 Kay, 1968
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Addressed to Hong Kong telegram No. 215 of 24 April Repeated for
information to Foreign Office
Political Adviser.
Grateful for an early reply to Cradock's letter PEK/3 of 25 March, In
particular grateful if you could telegraph details concerning two NCNA
prisoners and
dept possible information on other Communist prisoners in
summarized form.
Foreign Office please pass Hong Kong
Sir D. Hopson
[Repeated as requested]
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REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING,
251 YOUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 491: PRISON VISITS,
WE ARE CONCERNED AT THE POSSIBILITY THAT, WERE N.C.N.A. TO SUCCEED IN
THEIR EVIDENT OBJECTIVE OF EMBROILING US IN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT PRISON
CONDITIONS IN HONG KONG, THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES IN PEKING MIGHT USE
THIS AS AN EXCUSE FOR FURTHER DELAY IN ACCESS TO
GREY.
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2. WE LEAVE IT TO YOUR DISCRETION WHETHER YOU AGREE TO A FURTHER MEETING
WITH N.C.N.A., BUT THINK THAT AT ANY SUCH MEETING YOUR REPRESENTATIVE
SHOULD DO NO MORE THAN NOTE THEIR POINTS WITHOUT HOLDING OUT ANY
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were N.C.N.A. to succeed in their evident
objective of embroiling us in discussions about
prison conditions in Hong Kong, the Chinese
authorities in Peking might use this as an
excuse for further delay in access to Grey.
2. We leave it to your discretion whether you
agree to a further meeting with N.C.N.A., but
think that at any such meeting you should do no
more than note their points without holding out
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Repeated for information to Peking.
N.C.N.A. contacted P..'s office today requesting meeting tomorrow to
"raise several points arising after the official visits to Stanley and
Laichikok". In reply to our request for clarific- ation, they produced
the following four demands:
2.
(a) Patriotic prisoners at Stanley had been in "strict
isolated confinement" for 5 months.
This must cease.
(b) Women compatriots at Laichikok had recently been beaten up and
"seriously wounded" by other prisoners belonging to TRIAD societies. The
prison authorities must prevent such incidents and give immediate and
effective medical treatment to the injured. (See our telegram No. 471).
(c) Food at Stanley is inadequate and irregular. must be taken to
improve the supply of food.
Steps
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(d) Compatriots' health has been "seriously affected" because
of isolated confinement and inadequate nutrition. must be given
effective medical treatment.
We said we would consider N.C.N.A.'s request for a meeting
but gave no undertaking to see them tomorrow.
No. 172.
Foreign Office please pass Immediate Peking as my telegram
Sir D. Trench
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sir,
I have the honour to refer to your Despatch No.239 of 13 February, 1968
in which you review the principal developmenta tɛat have taken place in
Hong Kong since June 1967.
2.
I consider your report to be an admirably accurate and objective history
of events during the paried inder review. It was regrettably inevitable
that it should need to be very largely devoted to reperting on the
course of Communist confrontation in the Colony. The account of the
build-up of the Communist osmpaign last year, the degree and manner of
suppert from the Chinese People's Government and in particular, the way
that the incident of 8 July at the Tau Kok triggered off the subsequent
campaign of violence, confirm the view that the confrontation was an
overspil11 of the cultural revolution in China. This, among other
things, resulted in a weakening of the channel of control over local
Hong Kong Comminists. Bit for the admirably Firs and patient policy of
the Hong Long Government and the strong beking it received from the
great majority of the people of Hong Kong, the Chinese People's
Government might have been tempted or obliged to give full support to
the efforts of their local supporters te disturb the status quo and to
undermine authority in the Oolony.
3. I do not dissent from the conclusions in paragrɛph 35 of your
despatch consarning internal developments in Chine, but my advisors and
I do..bt whether Mas Tse-tung and the extremists would be allowed by the
more moderate elements or by the People' a Liberation Army tɔ mount
ɑnother campaign a silar to that of last year, even if they wishod to do
so. The present disturb.nces in certain areas of China, incl:ding the
Kwangtung Province, though eansiderable, seem to be less viclent than
those which took place last ye r¡
and although it may be some time before order and stability can be
restored, they appear unlikely to influence Chinese policy adversely so
far as Hong Kong is scneerned.
4. However, the fact that, apart from isolated incidents, the losal
Communists have new abandoned the use of violence to achieve their ends
in the Colony mat leɔve us under no misapprehensions, There is, perhaps,
a danger that the efficiency and affectiveness
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part, I and my selles use are fully alive to the fact the Commnist
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a different form, and that there are grounds whatevür for complacency on
our part.
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seuraión de the moar in which the people of Beng Kong, under your
lenderahiy, met and withstood the che 2,1 ange presented to then by
ommunista; and to the errielaney with mich the Hong Kong Felice, with
the nasistanee of the Colony' a garrison, dealt with the situation. It
is, ɛowever, fitting that
should sonskade 1:18 despytek by confirming and recording the
appreciation of Her Majesty's Govwroomt for the tanner in which jou,
your advisers - both offisial and inofficial - the ferEDS law and order
and the general publie of the Oslony faood up to and overeano the
dangers siten eɔafy nted Hong lang during the your 1967.
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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 258 of 30 March Repeated for
information to Hong Kong
Your telegram No. 570 to Hong Kong: Prison Visits.
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I agree and would propose to pass message (as suggested in
per
paragraph 5 of Hong Kong telegram No. 395) to the Chinese Ministry of
Foreign Affairs by telephone if possible in order to avoid giving them
opportunity of raking over the whole subject again.
I should be grateful therefore if Hong Kong would inform me when they
intend to make contact with NCNA so that we may pass our message more or
less simultaneously.
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Office of the Briti.... Charge d'Affaires,
PERKING.
25 arch, 1960.
I should be grateful is you could let us know the number of political or
communist prisoners still in custody in Hong Kong, the length of their
sentences and an estimate of when, allowing for normal remission, they
might expect to be relenced. You will understund that the subject is one
of more than aendedzic interest to us here.
No comments yet.
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