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Dear John,

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Office of the "ritish

Charge d'Affaires,

PEKING.

30 October, 1967

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The Swiss Embassy in Peking recently sent to the Chinese Kinistry for Foreign Trade a catalogue of an

The catalogue was returned international fair in Berne. to them last week with a message to the effect that it was not acceptable to the Chinese since it showed Hong Kong as a separate national State in it.

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The message added remarks that it was well known that the imperialists were only in possession of Hong Kong because of unequal treaties and that the whole territory has always indisputably been Chinese.

I am sending copies of this letter to Emrys Davies in Hong Kong and to the Chancery in Berne.

ever

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(T. Peters).

Counsellor (Commercial

J. B. Denson, Esq., C.B.3.,

astern Department.

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