CONFIDEN
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CANBERRA то
Telno·873
COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
31 May 1967
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CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No.873 of 31 Repeated for information to Hong Kong and Bangkok.
Australian Government and Visits to Hong Kong.
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My telegram No. 862.
Booker (External Affairs) today informed D.H.C. that he had sent a message to Australian Ambassadors concerned cancelling previous instructions.
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He also mentioned that Dorman on his return to Canberra said that he had not only spoken to Chinese as in my telegram No. 827 Hw3/12 but also gave them message in writing. It may be of some signifi-
cance that Chinese accepted this piece of paper and took it away.
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In return D.H.C. said to Booker that we hoped soon, to be in a position to tell Australians a little more about our forward thinking (your telegram No. 1147).
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My paragraph 1 above. We have been given broad hint by Prime Minister' Department officials that Qantas authorities in Hong Yong have been spreading alarm and despondency here and that this in part accounts for previous instructions to Australian Ambassadors. It might be helpful if Hong Kong authorities were to brief Qantas (without of course revealing that we have been given Muis dip)...
Commonwealth Office pass llong Kong 51 and Bangkok 16.
Sig. Johnston,
Sent 06527 31 May
Read 0657% 31 May.
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