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FOLLOWING TELEGRAM NOW REPEATED TO YOU AT REQUEST OF PRIVATE OFFICE

WAS RECEIVED FROM HONG KONG TELEGRAM NUMBER 541 OF 19 FEBRUARY

INFO ROUTINE PEKING

13.

FOLLOWING FOR GALSWORTHY

HONG KONG INFORMATION SERVICES

REMARKS BY MR. ROBERT ADLEY, MP.

TODAY'S SCM POST CARRIED A FRONT-PAGE REPORT BY MICHAEL CHUGANI

THAT MR. ADLEY HAD ''SCRAPPED A MUCH-PUBLICISED PLANNED

VISIT TO THE TERRITORY OVER THE WEEEKEND' '. CHUGANI SAID IT HAD BEEN

EXPLAINED THAT MR. ADLEY HAD CANCELLED THE VISIT ''BECAUSE HE

COULD NOT FIT IT INTO HIS SCHEDULE'', BUT THAT OTHER SOURCES HAD

DISMISSED THIS AND SAID ''MR. ADLEY HAD BEEN ADVISED NOT TO COME

HERE BECAUSE HE WOULD ENCOUNTER A HOSTILE RECEPTION''

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2. IN A LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE INTERVIEW WITH RTHK, WHICH WAS

BROADCAST HERE THIS MORNING, MR. ADLEY STRONGLY DENIED THE SCM

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