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CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1
Mr I C Orr
First Secretary
British Embassy PEKING
Telephone 01-
Your reference
Our reference
HKK 7/1
Date 7 February 1974
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IMPORTATION OF WILDLIFE FROM CHINA INTO HONG KONG
1. As requested in Peking telegram no 79 and as promised in our telegram no 71, I am enclosing the following material:
The Convention on International Trade in endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
The script of the BBC Radio 4 programme
Copies of 2 submissions on this subject within the
Office
A letter from the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food to the Assistant Political Adviser in Hong Kong giving such figures as exist for these imports from China
An article about this trade which appeared in the
Sunday Times of 3 February
LNCS
PM Kelly (Miss) Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department
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