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TO IMMEDIATE UKMIS NEW YORK
TELEGRAM NUMBER 7 OF 26 SEPTEMBER
ملا
SWY NO. 51
29 SEP 1980
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INFO IMMEDIATE FCO, PEKING, TOKYO, HONG KONG GOVT OFFICE LONDON
YOUR TELNO 11.
SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO HONG KONG. PLEASE PASS TO HEAD OF NEWS DEPARTMENT WITH SECRETARY OF STATE FROM SCOTT.
CANCELLATION OF VISIT WITH DEEP DISAPPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED IN HONG
KONG #755 HOURS 26 SEPTEMBER.
2. MODIFIED PROGRAMME ARRANGED TO CATER FOR OVERSEAS PRESS ALREADY
HERE AS THIS OPPORTUNITY SHOULD NOT BE MISSED.
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3. H R N PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HAS GRACIOUSLY AGREED TO VISIT CERTAIN PLACES ON 27 SEPTEMBER WHICH IS MOST ACCEPTABLE TO US AND TO THE PRESS.
4. ANNOUNCED LOCALLY AS FOLLOWS: QUOTE FOLLOWING THIS MORNING'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, LORD CARRINGTON, HAS HAD TO CANCEL HIS VISIT TO HONG KONG DUE TO COMMITMENTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN MADE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ALEXANDRA AND THE HON. ANGUS OGILVY WILL VISIT THE KOWLOON ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY'S SITE AT TAP SHEK KOK TOMORROW (SATURDAY)
MORNING. THEY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
AND LADY MACLEHOSE.
THE PRINCESS AND MR OGILVY WILL THEN VISIT THE POLICE SMALL BOAT UNIT AT TSIM BEI TSUI AND TRAVEL ON TO THE MAN KAM TO POLICE POST. LATER IN THE AFTERNOON, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE WILL VISIT THE KAI
TAK NORTH REFUGEE CAMP.
UNQUOTE.
MACLEHOSE
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