TNAG-0029-FCO40-65-Relations-with-China-1968 — Page 151

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Telno 204

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FOREIGN OFFICE

15 March 1968

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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 204 of 15 March, Repeated for information to Hong Kong.

I was summoned this evening to receive a serious protest from Hsueh, Deputy Director Western Europe on the attempted deportation which was described as another measure of persecution against compatriots. Chinese Government demanded that 2 persons concerned should be declared innocent and released and not sent anywhere outside Hong Kong against their will.

2. Hsueh refused to say whether Chinese would publicise his protest. Fuller account follows.

Sir D. Hopson

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