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Secretary of State:

Your Reference....

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Fog Ramy Comm

FOR FOREIGN OFFICE AND TREASURY CONCURRENCE.

DRAFT.CODE TELEGRAM

No.343.confidential

Your savingram No.28 of 12th January

GOVERNOR,

HONG KONG.

(2) > (4)

(16) LMS

My telegram

No.328 approved

Resubmition

Inseec

ly

FURTHER ACTION.

Housto

Omit

(5)

and your telegram No.197. Hong Kong

University.

107 Your Savingran

1. proposals in paragraphs 4 and 5 for

meeting capital and recurrent costs of

re-establishment on pre-1941 scale, under-

urgent disoussion--Hope to telegraph

decisio-shortly,

2.

As regards draft statement enclosed

with your savingram and question of

publication of Advisory Committee's Report

see my telegram No.258. These questions

have now been discussed with Foreign Office

and onclusion has been reached that it

would be definitely undesirable to publish

report at the present time. Apart from

rejection of Committee's main recommendation,

there are some passages in Report which

might give rise to some very awkward

repercussions if the report were published.

Passages in question are references both

direct and indirect to (a) British prestige

in the Far East (paragraphs 2 and 13),

Concis

to

(b) spreading of British culture and

influence in China (paragraphs 15, 17 and

to. (No scontham) 27), see especially quotation of Foreign Tremy (on sexpeeps

Office