TNAG-0039-FCO40-75-Border-incidents-with-China-1967 — Page 143

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

Registry No.

DEPARTMENT

HWB.

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

reach addressee(s)

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

PRIORITY MARKINGS

(Date)

Despate d

42

Top Secret

Secret

Emergen

Confidential

Immediate

Restricted

Priority

Routine

Unclassifed

D.T.D.

FLASH

En Clair. Gode

Security classification -if any

SECRET

Cypher

[Codeword-if any).........

XXX

Draft Telegram to:-

Governor Hong Kong

Governor

No..

(Date)

And to:-

2235

2/11

Addressed to

GOVERNOR

ERNOR/HONG KONG

telegram No..

2235

.(date)..

2/11

And to..

repeated for information to...

IMMEDIATE TO POLAD SINGAPORE

PEKING AND WASHINGTON

Saving to..

XXX

XXX

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

Repeat to:-

Immediate to

Polad Singapore 1199

Peking460 Washington

Saving to:-

F 11454

NEVVED IN ? “HIVES Nɔ. 63 SNOV1967

HWAY/1

Distribution:-

As for tels Nos.1614 and 1617

From Galsworthy

Hong Kong Border.

Ministers have considered your telegrams Nos. 1614

and 1617. They are in full agreement with the action reported in parzgraph 1 of your telegram No.1617 which is

just the kind of thing we had in mind in paragraph 2 of our

telegram No.2231. Ministers consider it would be most

unwise to give in too quickly and too easily on this point.

They will wish to consider with you what our reactions

should be to the Chinese reply to your latest message.

the Chinese reply is (as you expect) a refusal, one of the

that might be

possibilities to be considered is whether the next step

should be to send lower level negotiators to meeting on

cursuing

If

Chinese side for sole purpose of acting further about venue

What world you think of this?

for next substantive meeting.

Copies to:-

2.

1\pr

Ministers accept all proposals in your paragraphs 6

and 7 of your telegram No.1614, save that dealing with the

demand for compensation to peasants for losses sustained

as a result of closing the border. They consider it most

undesirable to accede to this demand.

Therefore they

EXAGINED AT /.3.0.0/2/4

SIGNATURE

SECRET

/agree

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