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TELELETTER
FROM: R.P. MARGOLIS, DEPUTY POLITICAL ADVISER HONG KONG
FILE REF: SCR 5/3571/81
DATED 18 MARCH 1983
TO: R.N. PEIRCE ESQ., HM EMBASSY, PEKING COPIED TO: W. MORRIS ESQ., HKGD, FCO
FUTURE OF HONG KONG
23
PLEASE REFER TO YOUR TELELETTER OF 16 MARCH. THE REUTERS "CORRESPONDENT APPEARS TO HAVE GOT HOLD OF A VERSION OF THE STORY IN THE HONG KONG TIMES REPORTED IN OUR TELNO 334 AND FURTHER DISCUSSED' IN FCO TELNO 240 AND OUR TELNO 362.
SIGNED R.P. MARGOLIS
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This sounds like another version of the "Reference News" story (attached) ters refer). odd Hat Peting have
not liked it to our bel no 240
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of cause the Chinese leades did tell H3 Thatcher Hez year
wanted
Progress or two: Septenter will be
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RN PETRCE PEKING
REF NIL
DATED 16 MARCH 1983
FOLLOWING FOR:-
COPY TO:-
W MORRIS ESQ., HKGD,ECO
may digaround.
RP MARGOLIS ESQ, DP, HONG KONG, 1-11 040/21.17/3
22 MAR 1983
FUTURE OF HONG KONG
1.
REUTERS'S CHIEF CORRESPONDENT HERE TOLD US YESTERDAY THAT A
FRIEND HAD TOLD HIM OF A CHINESE INTERNAL DOCUMENT WHICH
SOMEONE HAD SEEN WHICH STATED THAT UNLESS AGREEMENT WERE
REACHED BETWEEN BRITAIN AND CHINA ON THE MODALITIES OF A TRANSFER
OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER HONG KONG BY SEPTEMBER,
A UNILATERAL TIMETABLE AND CONDITIONS WOULD BE IMPOSED.
See (24)
2. IN VIEW OF THE REMOTENESS OF THE SOURCE FROM THE ALLEGED
ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, NEITHER WE NOR REUTERS ARE INCLINED TO ATTACH
MUCH CREDENCE TO THIS. BUT IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT SUCH A DOCUM-
MENT EXISTS.
SIGNED..
NNNN
.RN PEIRCE
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This seems cleaver now.
жень
If no progress by September then they will fix a time table. That's where the Sept. dute (in garbled forum came from,
I don't think we need jollow up
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