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DEPARTMENT
HK Dept & F dept 4Wn3/2
Hong Kong
(HWB)
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted
Unclassified
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Clair. Code
Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
PRIORITY MARKINGS
Flash Immediate
Priority
Routine
[Secur
}
(Date).
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s).
Despatched
24/2
0136
CYPHER
"Security classification' -if any
[ Privacy marking
-if any
]
[Codeword-if any]
Addressed to
325
HONE TONG telegram .......
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No.
(Date)
And to:-
325
CONFIDENTIAL
23/2
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
..(date)
PEKING (Pravity)
And to
2312
repeated for information to.
PRIORITY
Repeat to
[A]. PEKING TH
Saving to:-
18313
the discussion of
detailed arrangements shoulch, take place
Distribution:-
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Copies to:-
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Following from Galsworthy.
Your telegram No. 234: Prison visits. Your telegram was received after our telegrams Nos. 3.23 and 324 had been approved.
2. We and Foreign Office fully accept point in last sentence of paragraph 2 of your telegram under reference No. 234. You will see that, this is reflected in paragraph 6 of our telegram No. 323.
We
3. We realise that you would prefer that notification of general conditions/should first be made to Chinese in Peking (paragraph 3 of your telegram under reference). We and Foreign Office
however still feel on balance that it would be
better that this should be done in Hong Kong.
recognise that wherever the notification is made
there is risk of further argument about the conditions, and also of confusion by the Chinese in transmission between Peking and NCNA. But our
assessment is that on the whole the best chance
of settling this aspect of the matter lies in
direct exchanges with NCNA in Hong Kong. We take point in last sentence of your paragraph 3. We suggest that Hopson should add (paragraph 1(a)
of