Cypher/OTP
POLITICAL DISTRIBUTION
FROM NANKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
78 A
Sir R.Stevenson,
No.87
23rd January,1948.
Repeated to Hong Kong,
IMPORTANT
Singapore.
D. 5.17 p.m. 23rd January,1948.
R.
5.57 p.m. 23rd January,1948.
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No.87 of January 23rd,repeated to Hong Kong and Singapore.
LIGHT
RESTRICTED.
(58)
My telegram No.78..
There has been less in the press in the last two days than heretofore on Kowloon and Canton incidents. Comment generally has however tended to excuse the latter incident by the former.
2. This calm should not (repeat not) however be interpreted as indicating that the Chinese are losing interest but rather that efforts to moderate elements to play the situation down are to some extent succeeding. Atmosphere however remains tense.
3. My immediately following telegram contains text of a statement given to a press conference by a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman on January 21st and prominently carried by Central News Agency of that date.
4. You will note that though relatively calm in tone, it is tendentious, inaccurate and tends to take the line referred to in first paragraph above making a strong point of Kowlo n fep undec.] issue.
jurvediction.
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