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REGISTERED No.

DRAFT AND RECORD COPY

DRAFT

MKX Miss Ruston /10/46.

nee whifrey

MR. Grey

28/10/46.

ab once

MR.

(27)

To

ENCLOSURES

FURTHER ACTION

(23)

(24)

LETTER SENT

October, 1946.

SECRET

Your secret telegram No.1335.

it

DATE

HONG KONG

28/x/46

SAV: 317.

Following is repetion of my cypher telegram No.1094

Begins.

2.

I am glad to have the ae reports and with at once to assure you that I fully appreciate the importance of countering quickly both the newspaper campaign on this subject and the provocative activities of Mr.Awok. By adopting these methods in preference to the normal course of representation through diplomatic channels, the Chinese went far to compel you to retort in kind. I gather from.Runking telegram No.592 that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not actively supporting Mukwok, and I have no dourt that the announcement which you lasued has influenced their attitude.

There is, of course, one possible disadvantage in this counter publicity in this case, namely that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs may well feel impelled, for reasons of face, to support Mr. kwok to the extent of refusing to entertain any pepresentations we might decide to make to them with a view to his removal. It seems unlikely that they would be prepared to withdr him from Hong Kong so long us there is any chance of the removal being connected with these recent incidents

3. As you will know from my telegram No. 970 the Foreign Office, in reply to a recent request from His Majesty's Ambassador at Nanking, have asked him to

/udopt

[4556B] Wt. 26930/440 50m. 9/45 C.N.Ld. 748

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