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Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
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Elash
Immediate
Priority Boutine
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(Date)
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s).
CYPHER
Despatched
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Ettir: Code Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
Governor Hong Kong
No. 181
(Date)
And to:-
DT, D
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SECRET
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Privacy marking -if any
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[Codeword-if any]
Addressed to
telegram N............
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
2181
..(date)
25/10.
And to.
repeated for information to
IMMEDIATE TO PEKING AND ROUTINE
TO POLAD SINGAPORE AND WASHINGTON.
Saving to....
Repeat to:-
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Pelling Immediate
Routine to
Polad Singapore and
ore
Washington 11243
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Distribution:-
As for Hong Kong telegrap No.1582.
Copies to:--
EXAMINED AT 2017.274 SIGNATURE
Your telegram No.1582.
Hong Kong Border.
We share your concern over latest developments and
agree that greatest caution will need to be exercised.
There seems little doubt that Chinese intend to make maximum
propaganda use of any talks which take place and will try
to drag in as wide a variety of issues as possible.
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We are not entirely happy about the prospect of our
representatives passing through Chinese territory from LO
WU to MAN KAM TO. On the other hand we share your
anxieties about the Chinese using talks at MAN KAM TO as a
pretext for having the bridge reopened. We should prefer
alternati meetings on either side of LO WU Bridge.
Failure of authorities in Peking to give us a precise reply
on safe conduct (Peking telegram No.68 to you) would.
constitute good grounds for you to modify the offer in
/paragraph 2 (~)
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