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past. You can of course assure the

Committee and the Colony that His Majesty's

Government will give the fullest

protection to Hongkong and its mainland

territories during the civil war now

unhappily raging in China and that they have

no intention whatever of surrendering

Hongkong or of abandoning or diminishing

in any way its rights or authority in any

part of the adjacent mainland territories

under British administration to the

maintenance of which His Majesty's

Government attach the highest importance.