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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
September 28th, 1967.
I think that you ought to know that the very interesting Guidance No. 238 of September 19th, which gives a、summary of events in China and of the situation of the staff and others in Peking, reached us (by bag) only on September 28th.
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Paragraphs 7 and 8 contain our first information on a number of points which very closely concern us in H.K., e.g. the fact that wirclesa contact has been resumed with the Office in Peking, that the Queen's Messengers have visited the post and that Anthony Grey, though still under house arrest and incommunicado, /is apparently unharmed. These really are matters on which we ought
to be informed as quickly as any other post in the world and preferably by telegram. Developments in Peking are of vital interest to us here not only as pointers to the development of Chinese views on Sino-British relations, but also because we continually receive legitimate enquiries about them from all sorts of people either living or passing through Hong Kong.
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I am so sorry to start my correspondence with you in this querulous way, particularly since you were not in your present seat when the distribution of the telegram in question was decided. But one does sometimes get a feeling that Hong Kong's interest in what is going on in Peking is regarded in London as a merely frivolous one; and I do hope that as a general rule we can be ....as promptly informed as possible of developments there.
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I am sending a copy of this letter to Bunny Carter in the Commonwealth Office.
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