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IMMEDIATE HONG KON TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
Telno 1567
CONFIDENTIAL
21 October 1967
Addressed to Peking telegram No. 574 of 21 October Repeated for information to Commonwealth Office
102 My telegram No. 573.
The NCNA officials with whom we have hitherto spoken about the border incidents have proved uncontactable. We are still trying.
2. At Man Kam To there has been a loudspeaker broadcast from C.T. warning that action will be taken if the Bridge is not opened.
3.
Grateful if you would draw these points to the attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Office please pass Immediate Peking as my telegram No. 574.
Sir D. Trench
Sent 1047 21 October 1967
Recd 10482 21 October 1967
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