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NEW GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG
1. I submit a draft reply from the PUS to the Governor in reply
to the latter's telegram No 1128.
2.
News Department agree.
We are submitting today to the Private Office with the
requests to the Palace for informal and formal approval.
We
should get the reply by Friday at the latest, thus clearing the
way for an announcement on 21 December.
15 December 1981
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Hong Kong and General Department
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