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CONFIDENTIAL

INWARD TELEGRAM

TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)

FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)

Cypher

De 7 June, 1967.

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CONFIDENTIAL

No. 786.

Addressed to Commonwealth office (D.T.D.). Repeated

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Peking No. 318.

" POLAD Singapore No. 166.

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My telegrams Nos. 777 and 780.

Overflying.

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DUA

Grateful for most urgent information about what decision, if any, has been taken.

2.

News has not yet (11 a.m. 7 June) leaked in local press. Left-wing press has no mention of BULWARK . But there is a definite possibility that story will break here today. If it does we must know what to say. Our present plan is to reply to any questions on the following lines:-

"Enquiries are being made into a report/allegation that unarmed helicopters from H.M.S. BULWARK during the present routine exercise in the Port Shelter area of Hong Kong may have accidentally overflown Chinese air space."

(Passed Peking and Singapore by Hong Kong)

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copies to P.S. to Commonwealth Secretary, Mr. de la Mare, Mr. Bolland, Mr. Wilson, Far East Dept. F.0.)

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