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of these importations. There is one such application at present on hand
(TPP1/110/31) and perhaps you would say whether the Protocol Department

would like it to be returned to them,

regards exports, provision exists for the Protocol Department

to notify us of baggage exportations with the object of facilitating the
movement, although there is no pre-entry requirement for unaccompanied
baggage. At present notifications are often not received until after
exportation has taken place, and in these circumstanoesit does not seem
that any delaying procedure by the Protocol Department would have much
practical effeot.

J.B.Denson Esq., 0.B.E.,

Foreign Office,

London, S.T.1.

Yours sincerely,

Homill

(H.A. O'Nedll).

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I discussed this matter (Mr. Denson's

Minute attached) with Mr. Thomson. His view

is that our principal objective should be to

make it as difficult as possible for the N.C.N.A.

to function here, but if possible to avoid

action which would simply call down Chinese reprisals against either Mr.
Grey of Reuter or our own people in Peking. The best outcome would

be if the N.C.N.A. staff were in practice kept

confined to their house under a sort of

voluntary house arrest (corresponding to Mr. Grey's situation) through
the presence of a police guard

outside. If the notices are served and the

N.C.N.A. members disregard the order to report to the police the law
might then have to take its course and this could lead to their
summonsing and sertancing to imprisonment. This might simply

lead to the imprisoning of Mr. Grey.

2.

Subject to the Secretary of State's views,

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the Minister of State thought that we

should try to get the Home Office to

proceed on these lines.

Denis Allen.

(Denis Allen)

25 August, 1967

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John Denson

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I was informed this morning by Mr. Burley of the Home Office that
yesterday the police tried to serve notices on the five members of
N.C.N.A. requiring them to report twice daily to a police station. They
were denied entry to the houses where the N.C.N.A. personnel live but
were able to read out the notice to one of the women. She said that the
N.C.N.A. had no intention of complying with the notice and that any
communication should in future be made through the Office of the Chinese
Chargé d'Affaires. Kr. Burley tells me that under the Aliens Order the
police have no right to force an entry into the premises. They will now
try to intercept the N.C.N.A. if they leave the houses to go to the
Chinese diplomatic Mission or for any other purpose and serve the
notices on them in the street. This is obviously a chancy business.

2. Kr. Burley told me that the matter was being referred to Home Office
Ministers. One course of action would be to summons the N.C.N.A.
personnel for obstructing a police officer in the course of his duty.
They could then be brought before a magistrate and presumably sentenced
to a term of imprisonment. Alternatively, if the police succeed in
serving the notices in the street and those concerned ignore them, they
could also be summonsed and, subject to the case being proved, sent to
prison. To send them to prison would obviously go beyond what had been
contemplated originally, which was merely harrassment, and we would no
doubt wish to consider its political consequences. Mr. Burley will be in
touch with me again after the Home Office have given the matter further
consideration.

Copied to: Private Secretary.

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John Denson

(J. B. Depson) 24 August, 1967.

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Far Eastern Department

From: THE PRIVATE SECRETARY

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Dear Mr. Day,

HOME OFFICE

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23rd August, 1967.

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to you on the telephone. I would be grateful if you could see that it is
sent to Rome

urgently.

I telephoned the Minister, Mr. Scott, this

morning and he has arranged for the cable to

be taken on to Salerno.

Yours sincerely,

M.A. dayla

D. Day, Esq.

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Cable to Secretary of State

Following action taken against Chinese in retaliation:-

(a) Certain holders of Chinese passports to be refused

leave to embark under Aliens Order. Order being amended

to-day by Order-in-Council to cover travel to Ireland,

despite difficulty of enforcement.

Purpose of move is

retention of hostages until safety of our people in

Peking is assured. No question therefore of

deportations at this stage. Restriction would be

enforced against diplomats, journalists and certain

other classes.

(b) Restriction orders under Aliens Order imposed on

five New China News Agency staff requiring twice-daily

reporting to police etc. in retaliation for action

against Reuter's correspondent.

not to be granted.

Visas for replacements

(c) Foreign Office are restricting movements of

Chinese diplomats, and they are being kept under

surveillance by the police,

This is all that can be done in Home Office sphere at

present. We see nothing here making it necessary for you to

consider returning, but thought you should know of action

which has been taken on Prime Minister's directions.

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I undertook to let you know the details about the system of exit viene
which we are imposing on Chinese nationals helding diplomatic and
official passporta.

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2. A copy of the Note dated 23 ingust which we have addressed to the
offics of the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires has already been sent to your
Department. I now snelose a list of Chinese" to whom the new system will
apply. The procedure we propose to adopt is that the Chinone will be
required to send their passports to Far Easter Department of the Foreign
Office at least forty-eight hours before they wish to leave. They will
be required to specify the date of their departure, the method of travel
and point of departure. Far Eastern Lepartment will then decide whether
a visa is to be granted. If so, Passport Control Department will be
responsible for affixing an appropriate stamp in the passport and
returning it to the Chinese öffion. The stamp would be in the following
ternai- "Seen at the Foreign office and valid for departure via

within a period of months."

3. As I understand it, under the new Order in Council, Inmigration
Officers will be empowered to prevent non-fiplomatio Chinese nationals
from anbarking. In the event of a diplomat (who would be exempt from the
provisions of the order) trying to leave the country without an exit
visa, we hope that it will be found possible to detain him by
administrative means until the Foreign Offies has had time to take
action with the Chinese Mission.

(J. B. Danson)

p.a.

8. H. I. Burley, Esq.;

Immigration and Ratioanlity Department,

Home Office.

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Private Secretary Sir D. Allen Sir F. Vallat Mr. de la Mare

Mr. Stow.

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I told you that Mr. Thomson had told me that the following action by us
had been agreed at the Prime Minister's meeting this morning.

1)

2)

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We and the Home Office were to agree a list of those Chinese to whom the
ban on exit from this country applies. Mr. Thomson commented to me that
this presumably meant all Chinese State Servants here. You told me that
you had already prepared a list to give to the Home Office.-

We should look at the Vienna Consular Convention, which is of course a
schedule to the Diplomatic Privileges Act, to see whether there might be
anything else we could at some point withdraw from the Embassy on the
basis of lack of reciprocity which could be done by Order-in-Council. I
am trying to get in touch with Mr. Stow separately about this.

Arsuthull

(H.J. Arbuthnott)

23 August. 1967

X I have now spoken to Mr Hendby who

is looking into 2).

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