TNAG-0031-FCO40-67-Relations-with-China-1968 — Page 25

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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

Telno £62

8 July 1968

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8 July,

Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No. 862 of

Repeated for information to Peking.

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My telegram No. 849: Detainees. 614,

Release of the two detainees named in my telegram No. 322

to Peking took place as planned,

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We know that local Communists are aware of the release but there has so far been no (repeat no) report or comment in the Communist Press.

Commonwealth Office please pass Priority Peking.

Sir D. Trench

[Repeated as requested]

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