AND PEKING REVIEWS FROM 1965 TO 1968 WHICH WHIGH 164
KILOS QUOTE BY FASTEST MOST CONVENIENT PUBLIC MEANS UNQUOTE
(ROSLING'S, NEWS DEPARTMENT LETTER OF 14 NOVEMBER).
WE CANNOT SEND THESE FROM HERE BY CONVENTIONAL MEANS BECAUSE
CUSTOMS WILL REFUSE THEIR TRANSMISSION. WE WILL THEREFORE
SEND THESE DOWN IN UNCROSSED BAG TO BDSMO HONG KONG ON
17 DECEMBER. PERHAPS THEY COULD ARRANGE IN CONSULTATION
WITH REUTERS TO SEND THEM ON BY COMMERCIAL MEANS.
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3. GREY HAS ASKED WALDEN FOR BACKGROUND MATERIAL ON THE
CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND I HOPE THEREFORE IF IT HAS NOT ALREADY
BEEN DONE HE CAN BE PUT IN TOUCH WITH IRDEN WHO MAY ALSO
BE ABLE TO SUPPLY SIX NUMBERS OF THE PEKING REVIEW WHICH ARE
MISSING.
4. GREY HAS ALSO ASKED WALDEN ABOUT HIS BOOKS, THESE WERE
CONFIDENTIAL
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SENT ON ↳ NOVEMBER TO REUTERS (SEE OUT TELNOS.676 AND 717).
5. WALDEN WILL BE WRITING TO GREY IN JERSEY IN THE NEXT BAG
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9 December, 1969
I have now had a reply from Peking to the points raised in Mr. Judah's
recent letter to me about the Reuters office in Peking.
James Allan, our Head of Chancery, visited Tony Grey's house recently
with our Administration Officer. He found the furniture in a bad state
of repair following the occupation of the house by public security
guards and sees little chance of Belling it. Apparently the Mission are
also trying to sell furniture in a similar condition to the Chinese who
are not prepared to make an offer. They have decided therefore to burn
it. Would you please give our Mission discretion to do this if they
cannot obtain an offer from the Chinese.
James Allan also tried to reach the car but was unable to do this
because a vat of manure was placed in front of the garage door! He
fears, however, that the dust and cold of two Peking winters may have
done their worst. As regards its disposal, the procedure is a little
complicated but the Mission are making enquiries. They have suggested
that if the car is not a write-
I would off, it might be worthwhile shipping it to Hong Kong.
The Mission have thought myself that this would be unprofitable. intends
to collect the other items Grey left in the house (camera, radio,
tape-recorder, etc.) shortly but would be grateful for any documentation
you may have on the importation of the car and these other items.
Doon Campbell, Esq.,
Reuters,
85 Fleet Street,
London, E.C.4.
(C. Wilson)
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I have now had a reply/from Peking to the
points raised in Mr. Judah's recent letter to me
about the Reuters offiće in Peking.
2.
James Allen, our Head of Chancery, visited Tony
Grey's house recently with our Administration Officer.
He found the furniture in a bad state of repair
following the occupation of the house by public
security guards and sees little chance of selling
it. Apparently the mission are also trying to sell
furniture in a similar condition to the Chinese who
are not prepared to make an offer. They have decided
therefore to burn it. Would you please give our
mission discretion to do this if they cannot obtain
an offer from the Chinese.
3. James Allen also tried to reach the car but was
unable to do this because a vat of manure was placed
in front of the garage door.
He They fears however,
that the dust and cold of two Peking winters may have
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collect the other items Grey left in the house (camera, radio,
tape-recorder etc.) shortly but would be grate-
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importation of the car and these other items.
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Grey has asked whether it would be possible to send him a Zenith
transistor radio which he left in his house. This is the radio which
meant so much to him during his last few months of detention.
2.
He is not in any great hurry for it, but Reuters have suggested that it
might be possible for someone visiting Hong Kong to leave the radio at
the Reuters office there.
3. Grey is very grateful for all the material which you have sent him by
bag. For the moment he is living in Jersey writing his book and avoiding
the tax collector. If you should wish to write to him his address is
Hotel de la Plage,
Havre des Pas
J. N. Allan, Esq.,
PEKING.
Jeracy.
(C. Wilson)
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Dear Chan
Nigel Judah wrote to you on 17 November asking whether the British
Mission in Peking could assist Reuters in disposing of the car and the
contents of the house should we decide to close our office.
As far as I can trace he has not yet had a reply but meantime Tony Grey
has expressed a wish to recover the Zenith radio which became so
important to him during the last months of his detention.
If it is not too much trouble we would be grateful if you could get the
British Mission to have this sent either to London or taken out by some
official visiting Hong Kong and left at our office there.
Kind regards.
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from
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Dear Colin,
Miami juu for your letter of 19 November about the Reuters office in
Peking.
2. All is well with the servants until the end of December. On the other
points, I recently visited Grey's house with the Administr...tion
Officer. The furniture is in a pretty bad etate after the occupation of
the house by the P3B guards and I cannot see any possibility of selling
it. We ourselves are faced with a similar problem since the Chinese will
not offer anything for "PB7 furziture which we want to get rid of and at
this moment we are seeking permission to burn it.
3. I tried to see the car but as there was a vat of canure in front of
the door of the garage I could not get in to start it up. (In the
advertisements it would start at the first go but the dust and cold of
two Pekin winters may have done their worst.) As to how to dispose of it
assuming it is not a complete te off to procedure is
unclear. Luckily Korman Tebster, the Toronto Globe & Mail mon, is
seeking to chan e cars and is therefore in negotiation with the Chinese.
I have not told him explicitly the reason for zy interest but he has
promised to keep me informed of prozess. He fears that the only
precedent is that of AFP who had to export their car before importing a
new one. This would sem to sweat that it might be best to seek to send
the cur to Hong Kong, but the Chinese night be difficult if they saw
this as part of the winding-up process. We will wryway try to extract
the cameras, radio and tape- recorder in the course of the month so that
the Chinese cannot be difficult about this. Incidentally, have Reuters
any record of when and how the car and those items were imported into
China?
You
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J. N. Allan
Colin Wilson, Esq., Far Eastern Department, F.000.
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IN REPLY TO ENQUIRY BY THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICER, CUSTOMS
AUTHORITIES SAID THAT THESE BOOKS HAD BEEN CONFISCATED BECAUSE
** THE WERE UNFRIENDLY TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC AND
PRESENTED FACTS IN A TWISTED WAY''. SINCE THE BOOKS INCLUDE
YOU MAY, SUBJECT
EDGAR SNOW'S THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER'', YOU MAY,
TO GREY'S OWN VIEWS, THINK IT APPROPRIATE TO ALLOW THE FACT
TO BECOME KNOWN IN LONDON AND HONG KONG THROUGH 1.R.D. CHANNELS.
MR. DENSON
FILES:
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OUR TEL 676. PLEASE INFORM GREY THAT CUSTOMS HAVE CONFISCATED
FOLLOWING OF HIS BOOKS FROM CONSIGNMENT SENT TO REUTERS:
TWO ISSUES OF CHINA QUARTERLY
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
TIBET: RECORD OF A JOURNEY
HARVARD MONOGRAPH ON PARTY AND ARMY
TRAVELS IN CHINA AND JAPAN
MODERN CHINA.
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Please refer to our telegram No. 389 of 5 November. enclose a letter
from Mr. Judah of Reuters about their future plans for the Reuters
office in Peking. As you can see, they have still not made up their
minds but the chances are that the post will not be filled in the
immediate future. I should be grateful therefore if you would pay the
three servants their December salary and let me have your views on the
possi- bility of disposing of the Reuters car and the contents of the
house.
J. H. Allan, Esq.,
PEKING.
(C. Wilson)
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THE PEOPLE
19 OCT 1969
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The
"Man's inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn
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ROBERT BURNS, 1739-1796
2 1 NOV 1969
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Anthony Grey tells
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چرا که در شیخ
THE PEOPLE
19 OCT 1969 .
Cutting dated
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I AM NOT ASHAMED to admit that in 26 long weary months f total isolation
there were moments when I felt myself? odging near the brink of nervous
collapse.
But one thing above all else sustained me in my battle against physical
and mental surrender-the thought that one day I would be free to tell
the world the truth about my incarceration as The Prisoner of Peking.
That day has come, at last. But even now it is difficult to find words
to describe
the wretchedness and the misery of my life as a captive
of Chairman Mao's Red Guards.
Over the past few days I have tried to free my mind from prejudice and
bitterness in an attempt to give an objective and dispassionate
assessment of my ordeal.
Despite what has happened I do
not feel that all Chinese people are
uncivilised or sadistic. The cultural TOGETHER
revolution led to unprecedented turmoil, chaos and mass hysteria in
China. Everybody was under per-
sonal pressure to show his loyalty
to the "proletarian" line of Mao.
I am a compassionate person and
feel that the ordinary man or woman in China is much the same as his or
her counterpart in any other country-he wants a better life, better food
and clothes,
LOUES
But this feeling does not enable me to forgive the mindless vindic-
tiveness meted out to me both by the Red Guards and the public security
men who watched over me for two years.
They were a bunch of louts- hostile, contemptuous, vicious and
vindictive.
It is true that, apart from the roughing-up I had when the Red Guards
burst into my house on August 18, 1967, they never laid a Anger on me. I
emerged from captivity two weeks ago without a scratch on my body.
But in terms of sheer mental torture which they so cleverly 'inflicted
upon me they proved themselves worthy successors to some of those
sinister Chinese figures of the past who knew a thing or two about the
gentle art of persuasion.
Torture, Chinese style, does not wound the body. But it leaves some
scars on the mind.
AGAIN. Antrony
Grey and this girl friend girlfriend Shitley McGuin
frantic by a guard sitting a few feet from me on the other side of a
thin door. All night, without stopping, he went on sandpapering the stem
of his pipe.
Scrape, scrape, scrape it went on, hour after hour. A gentle noise, but
in the still of the night my frayed nerves could inally stand it no
longer.
I leaped out of bed, flung open the door and yelled at the man to stop
it. I went back to bed and waited trembling.
The guard came in, switched on the light and glowered over me for
several minutes. It was unnerving.
At last he left the room. But my act of defiance was rewarded the next
day by the cancellation of my exercise period for two days.
No matter how long I live I doubt if I shall ever forget the faces of
some of my guards-such as the one I nicknamed "Pervert Jaw"-a
description which suited not only his appearance but his attitude
towards me. He spat con- tinually and revoltingly.
Everything that happened to me during my 26-month ordeal was recorded in
diaries which I secretly wrote and hid and managed to
One night I was driven almost bring home with me. I wrote them
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in old exercise books in a rough shorthand which would be difficult for
anyone else to understand, Whenever I was writing I made sure I had a
copy of a Chinese ¡ewspaper handy to cover up the solt if a guard came
in. And at nights I hid the books under my mattress.
Later in my story, I shall disclose some of these diary entries, which
reveal my innermost thoughts as I struggled against the mind-numb- ing
effects of loneliness and isola- tion.
For me the tragedy and the terror of my long imprisonment is still
symbolised in the name of my little pet cat, Ming-Ming.
I have already disclosed how Ming-Ming met his end on that terrible day
when the Red Guards -
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THE PEOPLE
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dragged my
cat's body round me on a string
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IT WAS ALL PART OF THEIR VINDICTIVE DRIVE TO CRUSH MY SPIRIT
burst into Reuters' house in Peking and put me on what
I suppose was a mock trial
* "reactionary, imperial- 1st Journalist."
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And that ghastly moment when I was ordered to rika to find the body of
my dead cat hanging by a clothes-line only Inches from my face will
gamain with me forever.
BUT THAT. I am sorry to kay, is only half of the awful story, The
barbarlly did not end there. Lel me key to recall the grim catalogue of
events as they happened.
After my humillation on the front steps of my house I was hustled back
into the house to see the handiwork of the guards. It was an incredible
sight.
The walls were dripping with black paint and glus where the guards had
been daubing slogans and putting un poštera,
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Windows had been boarded contained a little desk and a
up to prevent them opening, and even the glass panes had been painted
over with thick, black paint to exclude the light of day. There were
por-
traits of Chairman Mao on practically every wall, SLOGANS
There
black paint everywhere. I was led up to my bedroom, where they | proudly
showed me that they ;
· had even daubed slogans on· my bed.
Half the house had been sealed off; the doors had been closed and
Chinese sexis stuck across to prevent entry. But the worst moment
· came when' I was taken through to a small room downstairs which had
been previously used by my driver, It was really only a vestibula
between an outer and an inner door and approximately 8-ft. square.
It was stone-doored and
low bunk about one foot from the floor on which my driver used to take a
little siesta after lunch.
It was an old battered bunk with broken springs · sticking through.
As I stood in the middle of the room, my mind in a tur- moil, there was
a sudden commotion at the door, What happened next was sheer
horror.
A Red Guard matched
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