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CYPHER CAT A
IMMEDIATE WASHINGTON.
TELEGRAM NUMBER 1415
TO FOREIGN OFFICE
29TH APRIL 1968.
RESTRICTED
ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER 1415 OF 29 APRIL 1968
REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING AND GOV. HONG KONG.
BRITISH MISSION IN PEKING.
JOE ALSOP, WHO HAS JUST RETURNED FROM HONG KONG, HAS WRITTEN
AN ARTICLE THE THEME OF WHICH IS THAT THE MISSION IS BEING HELD TO
RANSON BY THE CHINESE. THE PRICE THEY ARE ALLEGED TO BE DEMANDING IS
NO LESS THAN THE CAPITULATION OF THE HONG KONG GOVT. TO THE CHINESE
DEMANDS OF MAY 1967, OR AT LEAST THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF CERTAIN
CONDITIONS WHICH WOULD REDUCE OUR INFLUENCE TO THAT OF THE
AUTHORITIES IN MACAO.
2. HAVING HEARD OF ALSOP'S INTENTION COUNSELLOR WAS SENT TO TALK
TO HIM. ALSOP SAID HOWEVER THAT ARTICLE, WHICH REPRESENTED THE
VIEWS EXPRESSED TO HIM ON HIS TOUR HAD ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN AND
HE MAINTAINED HIS OPINION THAT THE MISSION WERE BEING HELD TO
RANDOM. IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT IT WILL APPEAR IN WASHINGTON POST
ON 30 APRIL.
FO PASS IMMEDIATE PEKING 3 AND IMMEDIATE GOV. HONG KONG 32.
SIR P. DEAN
GRPS 160
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