OUTWARD TELEGRAM
RECEIVED
70
ivot
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES FFICE
RATION
COPY
TO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
Sent 30th November 1950 10.20 hrs
No. 1790 Confidential.
3050
Following from Foreign Office
to Tamsui No. 273 of 29th November, repeated for information to Peking and Hong Kong.
(62)
Hong Kong telegram No. 1287.
You should orally inform Nationalist
authorities concerned that you are
referring their request to me for instructions.
2.
For your own information we do not intend to give early consideration to this request and would not in present circumstances be prepared to comtemplate return of these arms to Nationalists.
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