§ Mr. Biggs-Davisonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish an up-to-date list of the names and particulars of British subjects who have disappeared, and are detained, in the Chinese People's Republic.
§ Mr. MulleyThe following is a list of British subjects who have been detained or are believed to have been detained in the Peoples' Republic of China.
Mr. Anthony Grey—Reuter's correspondent in Peking, was placed under house arrest on 21st July 1967 in retaliation for the arrest and sentencing to two years' imprisonment of a New China News Agency reporter in Hong Kong.
17WMr. George Watt—engineer employed by Vickers-Zimmer, was detained in Lanchow on 26th September 1967. On 15th March 1968 he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for alleged spying.
Mr. Norman Barrymaine—free-lance journalist, was detained at Shanghai on 23rd February 1968. He was a passenger aboard a Polish ship.
Mr. P. D. Crouch—Second Officer of the "Demodocus", was detained at Shanghai on 3rd April 1968.
Captain P. M. Will—Master of the "Kota Jaya", was detained at Tang-hu off Tien-tsin on or about 3rd July 1968.
Mr. D. C. Johnston—who had just handed over to his successor as Manager of the Shanghai branch of the Chartered Bank, was detained on 25th August 1968.
Mr. Eric Gordon and family—Mr. Gordon was employed by the Chinese authorities at the Foreign Languages Press in Peking. We learned on 1st February 1968 from Mr. Gordon's relatives in England that they had received no news of him since the end of October last year although they had been due to leave China early in November. The British Mission in Peking subsequently heard rumours that the family had been detained.
In addition reports reached the British Mission in Peking in March that the following British subjects, all of whom were employed by the Chinese authorities, had been detained towards the end of 1967:—
Mrs. Epstein (née Elsie Fairfax-Cholmondley).
Mr. Michael Shapiro.
Mr. David Crook and his family.
Mrs. Gladys Yang—in July this year the British Mission in Peking received reports that Mrs. Yang had been detained about the beginning of that month. She worked as a literary translator for the Chinese authorities.