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Mr. Hutchison No. 448
29th April, 1950
CONFIDENTIAL
D: 2.34. p.m. 29th April, 1950
R: 5.24. p.m. 29th April, 1950
Addressed to Hongkong telegram No. 71 of April 29th. Repeated for information to Foreign Office.
(26)
Your telegram No. 55 Nationalist soldiers.
I cannot reconcile the figures given as received here. I may challenge (a) total number of ex soldiers (b) total number immediately dependent on ex soldiers.
2. I am therefore writing to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs raising the problem in general terms without giving the precise figures of the rebels.
Foreign Office please pass to Hongkong.
[Copy sent to Telegraph Section Colonial Office for transmission to Hongkong].
DISTRIBUTED TO
Far Eastern Department.
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Peking to to 368
368 cita chosto ओप
tophes to Peking tet 335
289