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PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Telno 880 12 July 1967
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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 880 of 12 July Repeated for information to Hong Kong
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Your telegram No. 604: Sha Tau Kok.
I agree there seems no point in further action at this stage.
2. I am surprised that you should have assumed that we are able here to convey messages quickly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially after having seen my telegram No. 834 which
As I am sure you deals with our difficulties in such matters. realise we are hardly on the "old boy" net. The only occasions on which we are likely to be able to speak to any high-ranking Chinese at our own request is when the Chinese consider that this would be in their own interests, e.g. in this instance when they
Otherwise we shall wished to get their own protest in first. usually be reduced to trying to leave a telephone message with some unknown Chinese official, perhaps only a telephone operator who will probably refuse to take it, or, in the last resort eventually sending a Note or letter round to the Ministry of
I therefore Foreign Affairs and leaving it at the reception office. question whether it is true that a message through Shen Ping will be slower in reaching the Ministry of Foreign Affairs than one through me, particularly if it is suitable for immediate release to the Press agencies.
Mr. Hopson
Sent 0900Z 12 July 1967
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