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FROM PEKING 10110OZ DEC 34
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 2946 OF 10/12/34
INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
FROM THOMSON
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HKK 040/57
REGISTRY
10 DEC 1984
INCE
PA
CAR
PEKING TELS NOS 2926 AND 2927
AND HONG KONG TEL NOS 3747 AND 3748:
273
PRIME MINISTERS VISIT:
HONG KONG ATTENDANCE
1. DURING THE COURSE OF MY CALL ON LUO JIAHUAN THIS AFTERNOON
(MY TELNOS 2942-4) LUO REFERRED TO THE AMBASSADOR'S
MEETING WITH ZHOU NAN ON 7 DECEMBER (PEKING TUR).
HE SAID THAT THE CHINESE SIDE HAD STUDIED OUR LIST OF
PROPOSED INVITEES. 21 NAMES OVERLAPPED WITH THE REVISED CHINESE
LIST. WITH ONE EXCEPTION, THE CHINESE HAD NO OBJECTION
TO INVITING THE REMAINING 29 PEOPLE ON OUR LIST.
HOWEVER, ME LEE SHING CHU
(CHIEF SECRETARY, HONG KONG AND KOWLOON TRADES UNION
COUNCIL PARAGRAPH 1(0) OF HONG KONG TEL N 3687)
WAS PRO-TAIWAN. HE COULD POSE A SECURITY THREAT TO
THE LEADERS PRESENT AT THE CEREMONY.
THE CHINESE SIDE HOPED THAT WE COULD RECONSIDER OUR SUGGESTION
THAT MR LEE SHOULD BE INVITED. LUO HOPED IN VIEW OF THE SHORTNESS
OF TIME THAT WE COULD RESPOND ON THIS POINT AND PUT IN THE
REMAINING UMELCO NAMES AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY.
2. COMMENT
THE CHINESE ARE PREPQRED TO INVITE ALL BUT ONE THE INDIVIDUALS NAMED ON OUR LIST. IF WE RETURN TO THE CHARGE TO PRESS THE EXCLUSION OF MORE THAN ONE OR TWO OF
WE
THOSE INDIVIDUALS REFERRED TO IN SECOND HONG KONG TUR,
RISK UNDOING SOME OF THE APPARENT GOODWILL AND COOPERATION
WHICH THE CHINESE HAVE SHOWN OVER THIS EXERCISE. WE COULD ALSO P EJUDICE THE INCLUSION OF SOME OF THOSE INDIVIDULAS WHOM WE WOULD
WISH TO SEE REPRESENTED FROM OUR OWN LIST.
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