CONFIDENTIAL
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
Cypher
De 7 June, 1967.
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No. 786.
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Peking No. 318.
" POLAD Singapore No. 166.
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My telegrams Nos. 777 and 780.
Overflying.
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Grateful for most urgent information about what decision, if any, has been taken.
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News has not yet (11 a.m. 7 June) leaked in local press. Left-wing press has no mention of BULWARK . But there is a definite possibility that story will break here today. If it does we must know what to say. Our present plan is to reply to any questions on the following lines:-
"Enquiries are being made into a report/allegation that unarmed helicopters from H.M.S. BULWARK during the present routine exercise in the Port Shelter area of Hong Kong may have accidentally overflown Chinese air space."
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