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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1
Telephone 01-
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CDS Drace-Francis Esq Government Secretariat Lower Albert Road HONG KONG
Your reference
Our reference
Date
5 October 1976
Deau Charles
DEATH OF CHAIRMAN MAO
Thank you for your letter of 27 September ((44) in SCR 4/3571/62). As regards your paragraph 2, no-one here can recall any written communication from a Chinese official to the Governor of Hong Kong. It would, however, be a vast labour to back / check our records to 1949 to establish this and
I hope you will see no objection to our not pursuing this particular suggestion!
event
Youus
Jul
cc: Mr David (HKD)
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J FR Martín
Far Eastern Department
R R Garside Esq, PEKING
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