Dr D C Wilson

HONG KONG

CONFIDENTIAL

Mr. Willin

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SWIA 2AH

18 February 1981

My dear David,

Repitis home in?

PROTECTION OF HONG KONG BRITISH SUBJECTS IN CHINA

1.

City

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Many thanks for your letter of 3 February about

case and its implications. I look forward to receiving Michael Atkinson's comments.

the

2.

The Embassy having put in their Note, we must clearly await the Foreign Ministry's reply before deciding how far this particular case should be pursued. If the Ministry take the line that Chean is Chinese I am inclined to agree that we should drop it. In the meantime you may like to see the enclosed copy of my submission of 19 January and Alan Donald's comments which show, I think, that we were alive to some at least of the considerations mentioned in your letter.

الله

Yous

Rowm

RJT McLaren

Far Eastern Department

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copied to:

MW Atkinson Esq MBE, Peking RD Clift Esq, HKGD

Consular Department

MVD

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