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Registry No.

DEPARTMENT

HWB

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

PRIORITY MARKINGS

Top Secret Secret Confidential Restricted Unclassified

En Clair.

Code Cypher

Draft Telegrand to:-

HONG KONG

Emergenty Imprédjace Priority Routine

* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s)

29/5

910-

CYPHER

[ Security classification

CONFIDENTIAL

[Codeword-if any.

Addressed to

Hong Kong

telegram ................

.....(date)......

1009

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(Date)

2815

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28/5

17552

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Repeat to:- PEKING 584

WASHINGTON 5283

POLAD SINGAPORE

826

Saving to:-

Distribution:- Departmental:

FED

Defence SEAD

American CO: HKD

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FEPD News

Copies to:

LOTS M.O.D.

repeated for information to Peking, Washington and POLAD

Singapore

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[Flay 2]

Your telegram 686 Visits of U.S. Naval

Vessels.

We share your views about the undesirability

of allowing another very large warship to visit

Hong Kong so soon after the Enterprise. We agree

therefore that you should refuse clearance,

repeating your suggestion that the visit should be

rescheduled for later.

2. In addition to USS "Boston", the Americans

have indicated through Ministry of Defence liaison

channels in London that they will also be asking

for clearance for a visit by the nuclear-powered

guided missile quiser "Long Beach" to Hong Kong

from 7-12 June. They are being informed that you

will probably ask for this visit also to be

rescheduled.

3. We are somewhat concerned that the Americans

should have planned this series of visits by three

B.W. Fitzgerald largeships in a row, two of which are nuclear- M.O.D.

powered. This is not within the spirit of the

guidelines (see guideline D about the even spacing

of visits by large ships).

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