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Many thanks for your letter of 19 April (CR 6/3371/71 2.5. 7/71) about the bonis. de fully accept your analysis that the situation is a complex one and understand your doubts whether one will ever really get to the bottom of it. Even if the man who planted the first live bonb (and we were very sorry to hear of the injury to ill) was rational and know what he was doing, it seers unlikely that he could have foreseen the spate of incidents which followed and were doubtless attributable to a variety of motives.
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The important thing seers to re that we should do all we can to mitigate the effects of any such campaign, so that it does not inhibit us fror taking other action which nicht be difficult in an emotive atrosphere. I am thin ing particularly of the defence contribution and the possible release of further confrontation prisonors. It is interesting that, on this latter issue, despite some referer ces to bombers' the Secretariat of Home Affairs should report even less interest in the latest lot of releases - and that there is majority understanding of the move as one likely to bring about better #ino-British relations and thus be of benefit to Hong Song.
His Excellency
Dir David Trenoù, GCMG, HC,
Government House,
Hong Long.
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