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Router massages from Hong Kong subsequent to warning to Agency suggest that Agency is now trying deliberately to provoke the Hong Kong Government to action against it so as to provide pretext for further anti British propaganda and conceivably for action against British interests in China.

(Coples sent to Foreign office for repetition to

Nanking and. Canton)

Copies sent to:~

Foreign Office

Ch

Mr. P.D. Costea.

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