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Dear Arayle,

In reply to your letter (54147/48) of the 4th March, I am writing to confirm the recent telephone conversation between Scott of our China Department and Wallace of your office.

We have no very strong views about the publication of the Hong Kong University Advisory Committee's report, and if you consider it undesirable to publish the report at present we are prepared to agree. We do not, however, attribute the same importance as you do to the passages referred to in (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 of your first draft telegram though we entirely agree about (a) and we therefore suggest that

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the words "These questions have now been discussed with the Foreign Office" should be deleted in the fourth and fifth lines of paragraph 2, and that in the fourth line from the end of the same paragraph the words "and Foreign Office both" be inserted after the words "Advisory Committee" and the immediately following word "agrees" be amended to read "agree". We also suggest the deletion of the words "which is and will remain a British Colony", both as unnecessary in this context and as being contrary to our Secretary of State's views on the subject of a definite statement about the future of Hong Kong at present.

I note from a copy of Serpell's letter to you of the 9th March that Treasury have no objection to the provision in the Hong Kong estimates of a grant of $4 million for capital

N.L. Mayle, Esq.,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

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