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Hong Kong telegram No. 1767 to Commonwealth Office

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and other normal activities and would not violate their right to study and propagate the thoughts of Mao while engaging in farming, production and other normal

activities'

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The Chinese representatives defined 'normal activities' as farming, production, engaging in business, visiting friends and those sort of things', It was emphasised repeatedly by our side that any person in Hong Kong territory was subject to the laws of Hong Kong.

C.O. please pass to Washington 395.

Sir D. Trench

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