THE ERRORS AND TO PREVENT A REPETITION OF SIMILAR INCIDENTS.
4. THE POLITICAL ADVISER SAID THAT HE WOULD CONVEY THESE REMARKS TO THE APPROPRIATE QUARTER. HE WAS GLAD THAT CHU HAD REFERRED TO THE
GOOD STATE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND CHINA WHICH HE
TOO REGARDED AS IMPORTANT. CHU HAD REPEATED THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S
VIEW THAT THE PROBLEM OF HONG KONG WAS AN OUTSTANDING ISSUE TO BE
SETTLED THROUGH NEGOTIATION WHEN CONDITIONS WERE RIPE. THE
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION WAS A MATTER BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND CHINESE
AND FOR THE PRESENT HE PREF RED TO LIMIT HIS COMBIEN GOVERNMENTOR 62192094 563 44323,5 £3 643 34494 59 78.85 634 +9.
TO SIMPLY ''TAKING NOTE'' OF THE CHINESE STATEMENT.
5. THE COMPLAINT WAS READ OUT BY CHU FROM A PIECE OF PAPER. IN SUBSEQUENT CONVERSATION CHU REFERRED TO PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI'S
STATEMENT TO SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME IN PEKING ABOUT HONG KONG.
THE ATMOSPHERE THROUGHOUT THE EXCHANGES WAS FRIENDLY AND NORMAL.
6. A COMPARISON OF THE 1977 HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT WITH PREVIOUS
EDITIONS SHOWS THAT THE PHRASE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY'' HAS BEEN
USED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE 1977 PUBLICATION. THIS CAN
CLEARLY BE PUT RIGHT IN THE NEXT EDITION. WE ARE EXAMINING THE
OTHER EXAMPLES QUOTED BY THE NCNA. CLEARLY THE CHANGE IN THE
ANNUAL REPORT TRIGGERED AN INSPECTION BY THE NCNA OF THE MAPS
WHICH HAVVE BEEN ISSUED BY THE HHONG KONG GOVERNMENT OVER PAST YEARS, AND THEIR REPORT TO PEKING MUST HAVE LED TO THE INSTRUCTION'S
TO RAISE TTHE MATTER FORMALLY.
MACLEHOSE
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