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BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION
CHANAKYAPURI
NEW DELHI-11. (INDIA)
10 May, 1968
Dear Mr Sharland,
Would you please refer to your letter FC 5/4 of 6 May enclosing British
passports Nos. D. 242283 & D. 242284 issued to
Mr & Mrs. R.E. Cannings.
These passports were forwarded to London in the bag at the request of
the Chartered Bank, Delhi and I enclose a copy of my covering
explanatory letter to Mails Branch. The passports have now been returned
to the Bank here.
E.J. Sharland, Esq.,
Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office, London, S..1.
Yours sincerely,
محمد
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(Miss) M. Binnington Passport Officer
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UNCLASSIFIED
PAS/OMB/FEB. '68
COPY
BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION CHANAKYAPURI
NEW DELHI-11. (INDIA)
14 February, 1968
Dear Officer-in-Charge,
I an enclosing under flying seal British passports Nos. D. 242283 and D.
242284 issued in Dacca to Mr. Ronald Ernest Cannings and Mrs. Enid
Cannings respectively together with a copy of a letter from the
Chartered Bank, Delhi to their Head Office in London. After considering
the circumstances of the case we agreed exceptionally to forward these
through the bag for onward transmission.
Mr Cannings is at present the Manager of the Amritsar branch of the
Chartered Bank but is shortly proceeding on direct transfor to the
Shanghai branch of the bank, I have been told by the General Manager
that the Chinese Embassy in Delhi to whom applications for vizas were
made have been uncooperative in the extreme, have refused to give any
information or process the applications in any way. The Chartered Bank
Head Office have instructed Delhi to send the passports through the
Diplomatic bag. The bank here do not know whether your prior agreement
was obtained but presume that, since the passports will have to be
returned by the same channels, you were consulted.
If you have no objections I should be grateful if you arrange for the
despatch of the passports to the Chartered Bank, London as requested.
Yours sincerely,
The Officer-in-Charge, Inward Bag Room
Kails Branch,
D.S.A.0..
King Charles Street, London, S.W.1.
(Miss) M. Binnington
Passport Officer
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The Foreign Secretary has asked me
to reply to your letter of 29 April about the failure of the Chinese to
grant an exit visa to your daughter, Kre, Self, and her husband.
I am sorry to say that, so far, our repeated representations to secure
exit visas have not met with any response. Mr. Self applied for his visa
on 17 May, 1967, and your daughter's most recent application was made on
21 August, 1967. On 27 November, an official of the Hinistry of Foreign
Affairs in Peking told Sir Donald Hopson that ho would look into the
matter. We received no further news or any reply to a formal note sent
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 24 January. ir. Rodgers,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign rice, raised the
question with the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in London on 5
April, In a formal protest about all the British subjects in
difficulties in China. The Counsellor in Peking did so again in Peking
on 4 May.
Discussions about visas for our Mission and other British subjects are
still going on in Peking. We have reason to hope that the atuation is
improving. But it is a slow process,
and I would not like to lead you to believe that any very early progress
is likely. I can assure you that we and the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking
Corporation, are doing all that we possibly can to obtain visas for your
daughter and son-in-law.
Mrs. E. Squires.
Paddock Cottage,
Church Lane,
Sidlesham,
CHICHESTER.
(G.O. ROBERTS)
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F25/4.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential
Restricted. Unclassified.
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To:-
Mrs. E. Squires, Paddock Cottage, Church Lane, Sidlesham,
Chichester,
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From
Mr. Roberta
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
In Confidence
The Foreign Secretary has asked me to
reply to your letter of 29 Apri] about the
failure of the Chinese to grant an exit visa to
your daughter, Mrs. Self, and her husband.
I am sorry to say that, so far, our
repeated representations to secure exit visas
have not met with any response. Mr. Self
applied for his visa on 17 May, 1967, and your
daughter's most recent application was made on
21 August, 1967. On 27/November, an official
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Peking
told Sir Donald Hopson that he would look into
the matter. We received no further news or
any reply to a formal hote sent to the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs on 24 January. Mr. Rodgers,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the
Foreign Office, raised the question with the
Chinese Chargé d'Affaires ad interia in London
on 5 April, in a formal protest about all the
British subjects in difficulties in China.
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The Counsellor in Peking did so again in Peking
on 4 May.
Discussions about visas for our Mission
and other British subjects are still going on
in Peking. We have reason to hope that the
situation is improving. But it is a slow
process, and I would not like to lead you to
believe that any very early progress is likely.
I can assure you that we and the Hong Kong &
/Shanghai
Corporation,
Shanghai Banking Corporation, are doing all
that we possibly can to obtain visas for your
daughter and son-in-law.
LITA /1⁄2
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RECEIVED IN AKCHIVES No.31 1 C MAY 1968
F25/4
Mr. Arbuthnott
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KANAGER OF THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
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CORPORATION
The Secretary of State has received a letter from a
Mrs. Squires, mother-in-law of Mr. D. H. Self. My submission
of 21 March covers the background of this case.
2. The question of visas for Bank staff in Shanghai was
last raised when the Counsellor called on the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs on ↳ May. We have so far had no response to
this or to our many previous representations.
3. We have recently received four exit visas for the staff
of our Mission in Peking, as well as four entry visas for replacements;
and we have been allowed a consular visit to
Mr. Grey, the Reuters correspondent in Peking. Some improve-
ment in the climate of Sino-British relations is therefore discernible,
and we may hope for progress over Mr. Self.
I attach a draft reply.
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(James Murray)
9 Mey, 1968
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and 9 Hong Kong residents of Chinese race whose nationality
is not known. No reply has yet been received from the
Chinese.
15. On 12 Karch Butterfield and Swire, Blue Funnel agoats
in Hong Kong, reported that they had heard from a representative
(of Chinese race) whom they had sent to Shanghai that the
delay was due to a group of officers attempting to obtain
military information, possibly at the instigation of the
company, end that the matter was still under investigation.
Later information suggested that the cutcome of the incident
depended on a suitable confession from those accused, and
that the nato was the principal peraon involved.
16.
sre keeping in touch with the Blue Funnel line,
particularly on the problem of whether or not they should in present
circumstances proceed with further sailings to China.
E. Vr. and Kra. ). Self
17. Mr. Self is the Manager of the Shanghai branch of the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation. He was due to leave China in Xay last year
and duly applied for an exit vica. His successor, Er. Lachlan, has been
in Shanghai since before Mr. Self's visa application. The Chinese hold
up the visa on the grounds of some irregularity in the Bank's affairs
and demanded that kr. Self apologise for "the orimes committed by the
Fank since 1949". Further enquiries suggested that the Chinese had in
mind some money belonging to 1.0.1. which the Bank passed to our Kission
in Peking end which various I.C.I.
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officiala visiting China had used to defray their expenses. The
remainder of the money was finally used by I.C.I. to help pay for an
exhibition they held in Tientsin in September,. 1965. Other cases,
involving the payment of War Damage claims for property in China into
accounts in Hong Kong were also mentioned. Although we have received no
reports of the investigation of "crimes" since July, Er. Self and his
wife still await exit visas, in spite of repeated representations
on their behalf.
18. We are in retaliation withholding British entry visas
for two senior officials of the Bank of China in London.
Far Eastern Department,
21 March, 1968.
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FOREIGN OFFICE TO
Telo. 453
CONFIDENTIAL
PEKING
6 May 1968 (F)
CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed to Peking telegram No, 453 of 6 May.
Repeated for information to Hong Kong.
Your telegram No. 372:
Shanghai Banks.
Visas now issued for Mr. and Mrs. Cannings valid for
entry via Shum Chun for 2 months from 1 May.
will be notified when known.
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7-DAY 1968
6 May, 1968.
I enclose herewith the passports of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cannings, who are
at present on the staff of the Chartered Bank in Amritsar, They are due
to be posted to Shanghai. The passports bear visas valid for entry into
China via 3hum Chum for two months from 1 May. Also enclosed is a copy
of the letter from the New Delhi branch of the Chartered Bank with which
the passports were enclosed when they reached the London Office. Neither
that office nor this Department have any record of a covering letter
from your High Commission.
I should be most grateful if you would pass the passports to the New
Delhi branch of the Bank, and if you confirm to me that you have done
so. I am sorry to give you this chore, but we wish to take every
precaution to see that there are no hitches in Mr. Cannings transfer.
(E. J. Sharland) Par Eastern Department
R. J. Hicks, Keq.,
First Secretary (Consuler),
British High Commission,
KEW DELHI.
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FOREIGN OFFICE, 8.N.1.
6 May, 1968.
Thank you for your letter reference WC Staff Department of 2 Way with
which you enclosed the passports of Er. and Yrs. R. E. Canr:ings for
transmission to New Delhi via the diplomatie bag.
I confirm that I have forwarded the passports to our High Comission in
New Delhi, with a request that they be handed to your New Delhi branch.
I should be most grateful if you would, in due course, let me know the
expected date of arrival of Er, and Ers. Cannings in China, and later
the travel plans of their two children who will be joining them for the
summer holidays.
Tə- Staff Manager,
The Chartered Bank, 38 Bishopsgate,
London, 2.0.2.
(K. J. Bharland) Far Eastern Department
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Staff Department
HEAD OFFICE -
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2nd May 1968
The Foreign Office,
Downing Street,
S.W.1.
Attention Mr.Sharland
Dear Sir,
IT - Mrs.R.2.Jenninrs
We refer to our telephone conversation this afternoon and as arranged we
enclose the passports of Mr & Mrs.Cannings, which have been endorsed
with vises to enable them to enter Shanghai.
We would be grateful if you would kindly arrange for these documents to
be forwarded to our branch in New Delhi through the diplomatic bag.
A copy of the letter sent to us by our branch
is enclosed as requested.
We thank you for your assistance in this matter.
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