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Mr. Hopson
No. 88
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FROM PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
67/5/10
FO/CRO/WH DISTRIBUTION
1 February 1966
IMMEDIATE
D. 1015 1 February 1966 R. 1420 1 February 1966 :
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 88 of 1
February
Repeated for information to:
Hong Kong
POLAD Singapore
Washington
Saigon
My immediately preceding telegram:
Hong Kong.
Following is text of Note excluding compliments.
Begins.
The Chinese Government has noted that the nuclear- powered aircraft carrier "Enterprise" and the nuclear- powered warship "Bainbridge" of the United States of America, that are taking part in the war of aggression against Viet Nam, arrived in Hong Kong on 26 January one after the other. As of 31 January, there assembled in Hong Kong as many as nine United States warships taking part in the war of aggression against Viet Nam, warships which will again proceed to the seas off Viet Nam to join the operations. At a time when the United States is steadily expanding its war of aggression against Viet Nam, brazenly declaring the resumption of its bombing of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam on 31 January and wildly clamouring for an attack on China, ruclear-powered and other warships of the United States are having constant access to Hong Kong and assembling there, and Henry L. Miller,
commander of United States Carrier Division 3, who is posted on the "Enterprise," has blatantly received correspondents in Hong Kong, showing off aggressive force and making war clamours and nuclear threats. This cannot but constitute a serious provocation against the peoples of Viet Nam, China and the South-East Asian countries. All the facts show that the United States is [? word omitted] more unscrupulously using Hong Kong as a base of, operation in its war of aggression against Viet Nam and attempting further to use Hong Kong as a springboard for its future attack on China's mainland. In its Note of 1 September, 1965, the Chinese Government lodged a stern
/protest
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