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STRICTLY PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR FROM MCLAREN AUSS
YOUR TELNOS 4379 AND 4380 AND PEKING TELNO 2030: HONG KONG AND
SHANGHAI BANK
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Please take action with Purves as soon as possible on the
Lines of Hong Kong telno 4380.
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We are content to leave it to you to judge how much of
me it would be appropriate to convey Purves. Our
17 Ke's message
18 first reaction was that paragraph c of TUR contained a little
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We were grateful for your comments on the draft and those
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of Sir R Evans. We have amended the draft to take account of the
however 23 points in Hong Kong telno 4379. We would, like to retain the
h second part of the second sentence in point (ii) because it is an important point: but we have expanded it to make the meaning
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We would prefer to keep point (vi) as
one, since we think it important not to appear to quote protest
too much unquote about there being no implications for a change of domicile. But the Chinese cannot have failed to notice that
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