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63 Your telegram No. 1223.
While we fully understand your reasons for wishing to
see a protest made to the Chinese about the incidents at Man
had Kam To and the Lo Fong Gate, we have some doubts about such a
Hopson has made; protest at this stagearticularly in the light of paragraph HMG's altitude quite clear I
Peking telegram No.1074) which makes ..'s attitude
quite clear
2. Although previous experience has shown that such
protests are of little apparent value, this in itself is,tef
no reason for not making them. There are certainly
occasions when they must be made and a very serious incident
such as that at Sha Tau Kok, when policemen were killed and
injured, is a case in point. But in order to avoid the danger
of debasing our own currency we feel that such occasions
/should
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