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INWARD TELEGRAM

TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

AMENDED COPY

Cypher (0.T.P.)

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(Correction and underlined)

COPY FOR RESISTRATION

FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)

D. 15th September, 1949, R. 15th

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07.15 hrs.

29

No.961

Secret.

Addressed to S. of S.

Repeated to Commissioner General, South East Asia,

No.278.

#1

"Nanking No.144.

#1

12 Canton by savingram,

Commissioner General please repeat to

Nanking)

NIT

Commissioner General's telegram No.666 to the

Foreign Office.

R.1.0. representative in Hong Kong.

I agree with Ambassador Nanking (his telegram No.1436 to Foreign Office) that draft directive places emphasis too heavily on anti communist publicity, in effect making Hong Kong purely an advanced base for attacking eastern communists,

2.

An important function should be to help counter communist propaganda directed against Hong Kong. This might be met by a new section on following basis:-

"Dissemination of positive publicity and information about British achievements in labour, industrial and other fields xquaxixixx Xxxxxspeedkay Antenexxx for Hong Kong". Ends.

Copies sent to:-

Foreign Office

*(Confirmation obtained 20/9)

Mr. P.D. Coates

RECEIVED

22 SEP 1949

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