Dear Chancery,
COMMONWEALTH OFFICE,
LONDON, S.W.1.
13/2226
25 September, 1967.
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Propaganda against Hong Kong
Thank you for your letter 10527 of 18 September with which you forwarded a copy of "W.S. Richard & Co's." letter to a Dutch firm.
2. Similar letters have been received by firms in this country and I can assure you that there is no such company trading in Hong Kong. The letter is, of course, yet another ploy in the Communists' attempt to maintain by propaganda what they have failed to achieve by strike action; it is encouraging that the Dutch firm should have been moved to pass the letter to the Consul General in Rotterdam.
3. We are copying this letter to Economic Relations Department in the Foreign Office and to Commercial Relations Department in the
Board of Trade. A copy also goes to Colin Wilson in IRD together with a copy of your letter and its enclosure.
Yours ever
Chancery,
British Embassy, The Hague.
2.
HONG KONG DEPARTMENT
LAX
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