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No. Hongking How.
HONGKONG + West adean Sept
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Draft Telegram to:-
Wellington
No.
(Date)
And to:-
[Codeword--if any]
Addressed to
WELLINGTON TON
telegram No....
958
..(date)
mq.
958
And to
1.2.1.9..
repeated for information to
HONG KONG. WITH
REPEAT OF TELEGRAM
UNDER REPLY NO.448
Saving to
Repeat to 1871 HONGKONG
Hong Kong with
repeat of
telegram/under
eply No.448). Saving to:-
repantuent requested to send XT4 form with copy of telegram
Distribution:-
As for tel.
No.448. from Wallnigla. Copies to:- 14 Sharlaha
FEDEO.
F.E.
12/
Your telegram No.448.
Parliamentary Question on Hong Kong.
The only comments that we have on proposed reply
are to suggest:-
2.
(a) substitution of the word "sections" for
the word "territories" where it first
appears in the second sentence; and
(b) omission of all words before "I do not think"
in the last sentence.
As regards current situation in the Colony, SO far as we know no claim to Hong Kong has been put forward
by the Chinese Government apart from such statements
as that in Peoples Daily of 20 August that Hong Kong has
To the best been Chinese territory since ancient times.
of our knowledge the Chinese attitude remains as stated by them in March 1963 namely that Hong Kong and Macao
are legacies of "unequal treaties" in the past and that the Chinese claim will be settled peacefully through
negotiation when the time is ripe.
Lssue. ANG 12..
67. G.
[(12.9.67)]