Registry No.
F
DEPARTMENT
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
Seeret
Confidential
Restricted Unclassified
PRIORITY MARKINGS
(Date)....
Flash Immediate
*
Routine
Despatched /7/ /67/
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s)
(68)
HK. Peking Ligans was on
16-052
1.7.15167. 16.202
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CONFIDENTIAL
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
EXXCNIKI
Cypher
Draft Telegram to:- HONG KONG
NKO 350.
No.
(Date)
939.
[ Privacy marking ]
any
[Codeword-if any]
Addressed to
telegram No. 939.
HONG KONG
(date)
And to
repeated for information to
PEKING, POLAD SINGAPORE AND
WASHINGTON.
And to:-
Saving to
Repeat to:-
PEKING
POLAD SINGAPORE WASHINGTON
Saving to:--
Aye's. And 480
#Kwis 17/
طيف
Distribution:-
FO/CO/WH Fo. FE. Dell.
Copies to:-
Your Telegram 612, paragraph 3.
In the interview with the Chinese Chargé
d'Affaires ad interim reported in Foreign Office
telegram no.322 to Peking, de la Mare deliberately
did not refer to events in Hong Kong but limited
himself to the events of 16 May in Peking and
Shanghai.
This was partly because the seriousness
of the Shanghai case made it necessary to call
Shen Ping in immediately and the statement
under preparation about Hong Kong (paragraph 4
of your telegram under reference) was not yet
approved.
2. But even if this had not been the case the
Foreign Office would have had the gravest doubts
about the usefulness of attempting to discuss the
Hong Kong situation with the Chinese here.
The
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