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FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

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Registry No. FEN HWA 4/1

DEPARTMENT

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Uerlassified

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

En Glair. Code Cypher

Draft Telegram to:-

PRIORITY MARKINGS

Flast

Immediate

Priority RouthreTM

(Date).....

* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s)

*

Despatched

-if any

1525

151867

CYPHER

[Sect

*Security classification"

[

Privacy marking -if any

]

Addressed to

telegram No....

No.

Hong Kong 1681 158

And to

CONFIDENTIAL

(Date)

And to:-

Repeat to:-

Pejang 742.

Washington 8955

Saving to:-

These are now

REINTORED

THAT

semifaced by the fact mar

Distribution:--

C.0.

A

- D.T.D.

F.0. F.E.D.

Copies to:-

Адий ти

Ms. Carra

D.TO/CO

[Codeword-if any].

HONG KONG

15 August

1681 (date)

repeated for information to... PEKING, WASHINGTON.

Saving to..

63 Your telegram No. 1223.

While we fully understand your reasons for wishing to

see a protest made to the Chinese about the incidents at Man

had Kam To and the Lo Fong Gate, we have some doubts about such a

Hopson has made; protest at this stagearticularly in the light of paragraph HMG's altitude quite clear I

Peking telegram No.1074) which makes ..'s attitude

quite clear

2. Although previous experience has shown that such

protests are of little apparent value, this in itself is,tef

no reason for not making them. There are certainly

occasions when they must be made and a very serious incident

such as that at Sha Tau Kok, when policemen were killed and

injured, is a case in point. But in order to avoid the danger

of debasing our own currency we feel that such occasions

/should

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