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elno 258 30 March 1968

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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 258 of 30 March Repeated for information to Hong Kong

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Your telegram No. 570 to Hong Kong: Prison Visits.

I agree and would propose to pass message (as suggested in paragraph 5 of Hong Kong telegram No. 395) to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs by telephone if possible in order to avoid giving them opportunity of raking over the whole subject again.

I should be grateful therefore if Hong Kong would inform me when they intend to make contact with NCNA so that we may pass our message more or less simultaneously.

Sir D. Hopson

DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION

C.O. Hong Kong Dept.

News Dept.

F.O. F.E.D.

D.D. & P.U.S.D.

Consular Dept.

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