8507 D.073939 200M. 11/74 Cr.P.C. Gp.839/3
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Forcible Chinese takeover 1997.
Prospects: Remote (as at (h) above). In some ways a preferable solution than (h) to HMG since it would be likely to reduce the immigration liability but a moral, diplomatic and political defeat of incalculable dimensions cf. Singapore 1941. Impossible to contemplate.
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