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contains a saving telegram from Hong Kong to the Colonial Office
Mr Brading of DMS also dated 29 October 1957 on this issue. suggested that you might like to consult Mr Roger Marsden, a Map Research Officer attached to the Survey Branch of CBF's staff who could probably provide you with further details of the sort of changes DMS have in mind.
5. The main argument in favour of changing the current method of depicting the international boundaries in Hong Kong is to allow the Directorate of Military Survey to revert to their standard practice which is calculated to give the most help to those military
However, as I pointed personnel for whom the maps are designed.
out to Mr Brading, this argument will obviously have to be weighed
I carefully against possible Chinese reactions to such changes. would welcome your views on this, and on whether I should press the
I ought to add that DMS to stick to their present practice. Mr Brading gave me the impression that opinion was divided in
if you think the DMS on the need for change, so a clear word now, this is called for, would probably kill the wine for another twenty years.
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R B JANVRIN
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