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DEPARTMENT
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s)
30/0/67
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION PRIORITY MARKINGS
Top Secret Secret- Confidential Restricted Unclassifred
Emergency
Immediate
Priority Boutine
En Clair.
Code Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
Governor Hong
(Date)
22302
Despatched
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RECE
Security classification -if any
[Codeword—if any].
Addressed to
Kong
telegram No.....
1346
No........
And to....
(Date)
ماری دا
repeated for information to.
414. COUL 1967
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you
CONFIDENTIAL
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
.....(date).................
And to:-
Saving to.
Repeat to:-
(34)
Our telegram No.1300.
Saving to:-
Cross-Harbour Tunnel.
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Tunnel
In the absence of any information from the
Company, Costains, whose tender has formally
lapsed, are proposing to withdraw their people
from Hong Kong. They point out that if the project
were to be revived later it would be difficult and
expensive for them to reverse engines.
2.
Can you give us urgently any information about
the Tunnel Company's intentions?
Distribution:-
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