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TELELETTER
FROM: R.P. MARGOLIS, DEPUTY POLITICAL ADVISER, HONG KONG
FILE REF: NIL
DATED 31 MARCH 1983
FOLLOWING FOR: W. MORRIS ESQ., HKGD, FCO
R.N. PEIRCE ESQ., PEKING N.J. COX ESQ., FED, FCO
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MKK 04012
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- 8 APR 1983
"PUSTRY
FUTURE OF HONG KONG: PRESS COVERAGE.
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SHI DAIYIN
A NEW CHINESE LANGUAGE PERIODICAL HAS APPEARED IN HONG KONG, CALLED 'THE HONG KONG NEWS JOURNAL'' (XIANG GANG SHAI DAI XỆN WEN 7449/3263/2514/0108/2450/5113). THE PRIME MOVERS BEHIND THE JOURNAL ARE TWO LOCAL RADICALS, WONG KWOK-WAH, PREVIOUSLY CHIEF EDITOR OF BAI XING SEMI-MONTHLY, AND TO YU-MING, FORMERLY FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT OF THE HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL. THE FIRST ISSUE CARRIES AS ITS LEAD STORY AN ARTICLE SUGGESTING THAT A FIVE-MAN ALL-PARTY FACT-FINDING PARLIAMENTARY MISSION WILL COME TO HONG KONG IN MAY. QUOTING SOURCES IN BRITAIN, THE ARTICLE CLAIMED THAT THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT HAD BEGUN TO TAKE A POSITIVE INTEREST IN THE HONG KONG QUESTION. THE SAME ARTICLE SUGGESTED THAT CHINA WAS PLANNING TO TRAIN A GROUP OF YOUNG HONG KONG PEOPLE TO ASSUME POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY. IT SUGGESTED THAT THE (COMMUNIST DOMINATED) CHINESE GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WOULD ORGANISE THE TRAINING.
2. THE JOURNAL ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES MIGHT MAKE SOME ANNOUNCEMENT IN JUNE WHICH WOULD BE THE START OF SUBSTANTIVE TALKS. THESE WOULD BE CONDUCTED BY YAO GUANG AND LORD BELSTEAD WHO WOULD TRAVEL TO PEKING FOR THIS PURPOSE.
3. HKGD REGISTRY PLEASE PASS COPY TO FED.
SIGNED R.P. MARGOLIS
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