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Your telegram No. 242 of 26 March7: Sino-
British Relations.
I agree that you should now make an early
oral reply to the Vice-Minister for Foreign
Affairs' statement of 8 March. The terms of
your statement should be those set out in my
immediately following telegram.
2.
You should also take the occasion to refer
to the earlier assurances about Mr. Grey and remind
Lo Kuei-po that in view of the prison visits
successfully carried out in Hong Kong we now
expect immediate access to Mr. Grey.
3. You may of course tell the Chinese that we
shall not be giving publicity to the terms of
your oral statement.
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