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OUTWARD TELEGRAM

FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)

TO HONG KONG (0.A.G.)

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Your telegram No. 972.

We agree with view expressed in last sentence of your paragraph 4. We hope that need to take such action will not arise; but if a situation of the kind envisaged in your paragraph 3 should develop, we must accept any action either by the Court or the Attorney General as inevitable,

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