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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

*** OUR REF.: SCR 3/3371/86

來函檔號 YOUR REF.:

C. O. Hum, Esq.,

HKD,

FCO

H&B 040/1

13th January, 1987

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W Smith.

done

25 FEB 1787 ex

Reg

for

M. McLaren's

10

Voriefing folders pl.

2011⁄2

Dew Christopher

Kowloon Walled City

Our tel. no. 117 refers. I enclose a letter from John Boyd to David Wilson (which constitutes our "report" on the Boyd-Qiao discussions), and a copy of Qiao's letter/ report to Ke Zaishuo.

2.

The Chinese asked us to adopt the form of a personal letter, to match theirs. We thought that there was no point in quibbling over this, especially since the Chinese had had no comments of substance. But the result is a rather more stilted style than you might expect in internal correspondence; the draft was originally designed as an impersonal record.

ever

Yous

Bubb

(R. N. Peirce)

Deputy Political Adviser

C.C.

P. A. B. Thomson, Esq., CVO

Peking (w/encs)

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