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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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Telno 314
13 March 1968
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No. 314 of
13 March, repeated for information to Peking.
My telegram No. 302: Prison Visits.
Our usual NCNA contact, Mr. Poon, telephoned today, and referred to Hopson's interview with Chinese MFA on question of "visits of responsible persons and representatives of the NCNJ to NCNA journalists and staff of patriotic newspapers in prison". He suggested details should be discussed at a meeting tomorrow or the day after between the PA and APA and Mr. Liang Shang-Yuan (Vice Dirctor NCNA) and himself at the NCNA office.
2. The proposal for a meeting at the NCNA office raises the difficulties foreshadowed in paragraph 2 of my telegram No. 241, but to suggest to NCNA a meeting in a neutral place might test their bona fides and I propose to make this suggestion in the first instance. If it fails, we will try to make arrangements by Exchange of Messages.
Foreign Office pass Immediate Peking as my telegram No. 103.
Sir D. Trench
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