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MONDAY, JULY 3, 1989

"FOR THE EXTENDING RIGHT THAT NUMBER," SIR

REASONS I HAVE DESCRIBED, WE ARE NOT OF ABODE TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE OR TO GEOFFREY SAID.

ACTION

DOES NEED

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BE

TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING LIKE

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GIVE SOME SOME PROVISION

"BUT URGENT ASSURANCE. WE ARE WORKING ON A SCHEME THAT WILL MAKE FOR PEOPLE IN BOTH THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS ON THE SIMPLY OF CONNECTIONS WITH BRITAIN BUT ALSO THE VALUE OF HONG KONG," HE ADDED.

BASIS NOT SERVICE TO

THE FOREIGN SECRETARY SAID WHILE HE COULD NOT GIVE DETAILS NOW, AS SOON AS AN ANNOUNCEMENT WOULD BE MADE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DETAILS OF THE SCHEME WERE WORKED OUT.

"SECONDLY, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT WOULD NEED TO BE DONE IN THE VERY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES OF AN EXTREME SITUATION.

tr "IT NEED NOT BE CHINESE TANKS POURING ACROSS THE COULD BE MUCH LESS DRAMATIC THAN THAT.

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"WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS A FAR-REACHING BREAKDOWN OF ARRANGEMENTS IN THE JOINT DECLARATION. I AM NOT PREDICTING ANYTHING OF THAT SORT, SIR GEOFFREY SAID.

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STILL

BUT IF FIRM OBLIGATIONS

BELIEVE THAT HONG KONG HAS A SECURE FUTURE. THINGS DID GO CATASTROPHICALLY WRONG, BRITAIN HAS TOWARDS HONG KONG, HE SAID.

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"WE

MOBILISE THE WOULD COULD NOT CLOSE

WE OUR DOOR. AND

WERE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO HELP IF THE NUMBERS LEAVING HONG KONG LARGER THAN WE COULD DEAL WITH ALONE. WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED WORK THIS," HE ADDED.

TURNING TO TRAGIC EVENTS IN PEKING ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 3, FOREIGN SECRETARY SAID THEY HAD SENT SHOCK WAVES ROUND THE WORLD WERE FELT NOWHERE MORE STRONGLY THAN IN HONG KONG.

ON

THE

AND

"THAT ONE NIGHT DESTROYED AT A STROKE THE REPUTATION THAT

THAN TEN CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN BUILDING FOR ITSELF OVER MORE YEARS.

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HAS DONE ENORMOUS HARM TO CHINA. AND IT HAS DEALT BLOW TO HONG KONG, SIR GEOFFREY SAID.

A REAL

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WERE APPALLED

BY

THE

HUMAN TRAGEDY,

ANGERED

BY THE REPELLED

SENSELESSNESS AND STUPIDITY OF IT: THE LOSS OF YOUNG LIVES. BY THE SAVAGERY OF WHAT WAS DONE.

"THE

PRIME MINISTER AND I HAVE MADE PLAIN THE REACTION OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED, AND WE HAVE ACTION, SIR GEOFFREY SAID.

BRITAIN AND ITS PARTNERS IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY HAD MILITARY CO-OPERATION WITH, AND ARMS SALES TO, CHINA, HE NOTED.

THE TAKEN

STOPPED

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