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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 326 of 11 December. Repeated for information to Hong Kong.
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Your telegram No. 1069: Deportations.
I agree that the Chinese are unlikely to enter into discussion on this subject. Procedure as outlined in your paragraph 2 seems best though I think our communication should be a bare statement of fact with no (repeat no) reference to improving relations. would in any case understand it in this sense.
The Chinese
2. I cannot guarantee that the Chinese would agree to accept deportees. It is quite probable that they would refuse. But it is possible they would accept them and at the same time make a lot of propaganda about illegal deportations. It would I think therefore
be worth trying at some stage, providing the Governor can take them back if necessary. Even in this case the gesture would have been made and they might come back on it later. Let us see how we get on over Wen Hui Pao berore taking a decision.
Foreign Orrice please pass Priority Hong Kong 168.
Mr. Hopson
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