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Mr. Wallace.
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which, if a correct
araniption, in me good
reason to wr Moning onestly the puurkaed
In (34) the Governor has explained the considerations which induced him to is sue the recent formal warning to the New China News Agency and he asks for discretion to take
immediate action, including possibly closure, should the N.C.N.A. again overstep the limits to which their attention has now been officially drawn.
We have already agreed ((14) on this file) that the Governor should take immediate action against Communist newspapers if they print openly subversive articles and while the Governor may equally need to act quickly against the N.C.N.A.; there are in fact indications, judging from the Reuter report at (36), that the N.C.N.A. is out to provoke the Hong Kong Government.
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there are also considerations which make it desirable that closure of the agency should not be ordered precipitately unless there is an immediate threat to law and order and I have taken this line in the draft opposite which is I think self-explanatory. I have read the draft over to Mr. Coates who is gen rally in agreement with it himself but thinks it had better be sent across to them for concurrence. I gathered that the papers will probably go up to Mr.Dening and it would therefore perhaps be appropriate if the draft were submitted to Mr. Paskin before it goes acr oss. Sir T. Lloyd has spoken to Mr. Moreton about (34) and I understand wishes the draft reply to be submitted to him.
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