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IMMEDIATE
CONFIDENTIAL
OUTWARD TELEGRAM
FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
(The Secretary of State)
TO HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
HWB 2/1
Sent 5th May, 1967 2240Z
CONFIDENTIAL
No. 863
Addressed to Governor, Hong Kong,
Repeated to Washington
#t Peking.
192
Your telegram No. 520.
U.S. Naval Visits.
Action proposed in last sentence of your paragraph 3 is agreed. Americans should also be informed that visit of BAINBRIDGE may have to be reviewed in light of any reactions to visit of TICONDEROGA (paragraph 4 of your telegram No. 496 refers).
Passed to DSAO for repetition to Washington and Peking./
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