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OUTWARD TELEGRAM

FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

Cyber (0.1.F.)

TO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)

Sent 27th April, 1949.

INMEDIATE

No.426

5

18.45 hrs.

Ans. at

(9)

Secret.

Addressed to Governor Hong Kong,

Repeated to H.B.M. Ambassador, Nanking.

Your telegram No.370.

Communist controlled Press.

Before replying to your telegram grateful for your further views in the light of Nanking telegram No.504 of 25th April repeated to you.

(4)

(Coples sent to Foreign Office for repetition

to Nanking

Copies sent to:-

Foreign Office

I. P.D. Coates.