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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London S.W.1
9 April 1974
V L St Clair Esq Il Treasury
HONG KONG
Dear Bill
Thank you for your letter of 9 April enclosing a draft telegram to liong Kong.
2. In view of Hong Kong telegram ilo. 406, we think ve aight take this opportunity to make crystal clear thet ve me si by "accidental" breaches if only to forestall difficulties in This would muca e re-esti conexion with the new Declaration. of paragraph 2 of your draft and some changes in paragraph 7.
3. I attach a suggested redraft. There are also on or two, minor changes we are proposing in some of the other pre- graphs.
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4. Tony Aust is happy with these proposed changes; though they do not take account of an addition:1 polut topping up) on which he has been in touch with Kingsley-Jours.
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SJG CABRIDGE Financial Relations Department
cc: RE Barber Esq
Bank of England
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