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DRAFT OUTLINE PROGRAMME FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO CHINA AND HONG KONG

Friday 27 October

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18/10

6.00 p.in

Leave FCO

8.40 p.m

10.00 p.m

Take off in RAF VC10 from Brize Norton

12.00

Arrive Leuchars

Pick up Secretary of State and Lady Douglas-Home

Take off from Leuchars

8 hrs 25 mins. flying to Elmendorf

(Alaska)

2 hrs 45 mins stop at Elmendorf (9.30 p.m on Friday evening to midnight at local time)

7 hrs 50 mins flying to Tokyo

1 hrs stop at Tokyo (3. a.m to 4.30 a.m Sunday morning local time)

Sunday 29 October

6.50 am

8.20 a.m.

10.30 a.m

3 hrs 20 mins flying from Tokyo

Arrive Shanghai

Met by Mr. Addis and one other member of the Embassy plus three or four members of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Take off from Shanghai

Arrive Peking

(2.30 am Local-time) 77;

Met by Chinese officials and a number of Heads of Missions

Short statement on arrival which will be handed out to the Press

Drive to Government Guest House

Accommodation All members of the Party at the Government Guest House except for Mr. Weait who will be at the hotel where the journalists are staying, Miss Deeves who will be at a hotel, and the RPs and RAF crew who will also be in hotels.

Private Office at Chancery with facili- ties for an"advance" Private Office at the Government Guest House. Direct telephone communications between Chancery, and the Secretary of State and Mr. Acland's room at the Government Guest House.

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