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PRIORITY PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Telno 570
17 June, 1968
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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No.570 of
17 June,
Repeated for information to Hong Kong.
207
Your telegram No.659.
I hope that it is not proposed to publish our note. Our object, I assume, is to get it on the record with the Chinese. As far as the public are concerned, the Hong Kong Government statement of 15 May has already made essential facts known.
2. Publication of our Note would merely revive controversy and make Chinese response in one form or another more likely, particularly as publication would coincide with visit of Ticonderoga.
Foreign Office please pass routine Hong Kong 411.
Sir D.Hopson.
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