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Mr.

Sidebotham "/1/50.

Mr. Paskin 13 /1/50.

Mr.

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C. Jeffrey 14/1

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TELEGRAM/

To:--

GOVERNOR, HONG KONG.

File No.

54145/4/49

Recyphore

Sent.

2115 hours.

15/4 1953

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Top Secret and Personal.

Following Secret and Personal from Paskin.

Begins.

Your Secret despatch No. 37 of 22nd December

and previous correspondence.

"

Constitution.

Proposals in your Secret despatch No. 28

of 25th August have now been considered by Secretary

general

of State, who is in agreement with them. They Ą

CLAPSE

2. In view of time which has unavoidably

CONSIDERATION speed during ears of

seclzred since your request that your recommendation s

should be treated

hacip repard 6*

surgent, and alee of present

situation in Hong Kong, we should be grateful for

stee

your confirmation by telegram that you consider that

this 1s this matter of

111 the mount to press forward with

constitutional reforms gent C

3. If you-se-recommend, we shall then

consult the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence

and thereafter hope to give you the "all clear" 20 that do pry of the instrument

drop

You will appreciate, however, that forthcoming

General Election may make consultation with

Ministers more difficult on anything except the

This m

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most urgent business.

4 Please telegraph your reply. Ends.

Vt. 21408/757 rom 7.48 Wa. & Co. /3

SECER.