Note to Editors:
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Friday, June 1, 1973
QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST
The services of many Hong Kong residents are recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List to be published tomorrow (Saturday).
They include community leaders, educationists, civil servants and members of the military services. A list of the recipients of the honours is contained in a special supplement to today's (Friday) Daily Information Bulletin, copies of which are distributed in the G.I.8. Press boxes along with the military list.
The announcement regarding the Honours List is being made simultaneously in London at 2330 hours G.M.T. today, June 1.
Publication is permitted in Hong Kong
newspapers tomorrow (Saturday) morning, but no
news agency or overseas radio transmission of the
announcement may carry the information without the embargo qualification.
The news may be broadcast from 6 a.m. onwards over the local radio and television stations tomorrow.
On NO account should any of the recipients of Honours be contacted for interviews or for information relative to their careers or be approached in any way in connection with their awards before these have
been publicly announced.
Release Time: 8.30 p.m.
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