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DRAFT LETTER
To:-
J Cater Esq MBE JP Secretary for Information HONG KONG
MR ROYLE'S VISIT TO HONG KONG
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I understand that when Mr Royle was in Fam afraid that I have been told to take you to tas Hans Kans, your department undertook to send for not le ting de have the original press cuttings copies of ons inal press crythings arising out of his Following Up Royle's Cuisiel press conference
official visit A month later these have not amined, and I understand you had promised to ret hi have togethe M. Royle has asked me to express his disappointed.
with the transcript of the conference,
best to remedy thw did our best to provide Mr Royle with press cuttings deficiency from from the newspapers
the
papers reaching us here, but I Bear there an
inevitable
saps.
iSSinitaly Dr
Royle has asked me to point out that he has had to answer reveal querico bawy!??, about questions aris is from his
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which we receive in this Depart-
ment but I am afraid he had seen most of these already
while he was in Hong Kong and had been expecting to
receive the ones promised by you. It was indeed unfor- tunate that we did not receive the transcript of the
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press conference at a much earlier date since several
Members of Parliament have written to Mr Royle about
his remarks in Hong Kong bout British passport holders, and we have had to rely upon reports of ide remarks in the Daily Telegraph, in replying to the MPS.
1 should be grateful if you could bear in mind for the future that whenever a Minister visits Hong Kong, it would be helpful to let us have press cuttings and
transcripts,
reports of any public speeches as soon as possible after the event.
Press conference on Hong Kong, without the help of the transcript of the conference which's only now being sent to us in response to our SDo you you could imprest upon
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