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FLASH SECRET No. 918

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OUTWARD TELEGRAM

FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)

TO HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)

Sent 15th May, 1967.

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Addressed to Governor Hong Kong Repeated IMMEDIATE to (1) Peking

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My immediately preceding telegram.

Kowloon Disturbances.

To coincide with trial (and perhaps serve as counter-publicity to it) could you draw public attention to paragraphs 7 and 8 of your telegram No. 591 and publicly offer services of your Labour Commissioner to management and trade unions to discuss industrial relations in the firm which were, though perhaps now lost sight of, the original cause of the dispute. This follows up proposals in paragraph 4 of our telegram No. 910. The chances of any 721 useful outcome are admittedly slight but unless it would do harm it would seem worth trying. Combined with going ahead with trial and for the time being ignoring Peking statement (but see my immediately following telegram), it would not seem to suggest any weakening of our position.

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