Saturday, January 5, 1974
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LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO VISIT CHINA
A Government spokesman today confirmed a raport that Lord
Mountbatten is to pay a seven-day visit to China later this month.
The visit - a private one at the invitation of the Chinese Govern-
will be in his capacity as President of the International Council
of the United World Colleges,
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Lord Mountbatten will arrive in Hong Kong by air on January 24,
He will be staying overnight with the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose. accompanied by his daughters and their husbands, Lord and Lady Brabourne
and Mr. David and Lady Pamela Hicks.
Lady Pamela is a member of the International Council of the United
World Colleges and Lord Brabourne is a governor of the United World College
of the Atlantic at St. Donat's Castle.
On January 25, the party will travel by train to China, returning
to Hong Kong on February 1. During their brief stopover in Hong Kong,
Lord Mountbatten will meet the Hong Kong National Cramittee of the United
World Colleges, together with their chairman, Sir Kenneth Ping-fan Fung.
He will also lunch with the Commander, British Forces, Lieut.
General Sir Edwin Bramall, who at one time served on his staff,
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