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OUTWARD TELEGRAM

RECEIVED

70

ivot

FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES FFICE

RATION

COPY

TO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)

Sent 30th November 1950 10.20 hrs

No. 1790 Confidential.

3050

Following from Foreign Office

to Tamsui No. 273 of 29th November, repeated for information to Peking and Hong Kong.

(62)

Hong Kong telegram No. 1287.

You should orally inform Nationalist

authorities concerned that you are

referring their request to me for instructions.

2.

For your own information we do not intend to give early consideration to this request and would not in present circumstances be prepared to comtemplate return of these arms to Nationalists.

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