SECRET.
Nanking telegram No.1416 to Foreign Office.
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the difficulty of preventing large scale infiltration of Communist news in Hong Kong even if the New China Agency were similarly banned and the local Chinese press were treated on reciprocal basis to the New China. Daily News,
the possibility of appeal by interests concerned on legal grounds being sustained by British courts,
the question whether suppression of the Communist official channel of publicity might prove to be less effective than the present tolerance subject to conformity with existing
legislation for public security.
5. I would in any case prefer that any decision regarding retaliatory action should be deferred until His Majesty's Consul General at Shanghai can confirm that there is no longer any chance of the resumption of Reuters service (see paragraph 4 of Shanghai telegram No.436 to me).
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6. I should be grateful if you would repeat to Hong Kong and Singapore text of Shanghai telegram No.436 to me.
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