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CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG

PEKING

Your telegram No.765 and Peking telegram

No. 577.

Chung Wah Middle School

It is quite clear that the incidents which

occurred at the school last year fully justified

its deregistration, but we are dubious about the

proposal to deregister it so long after the event.

There is no doubt that to do so at this stage would

be regarded by the Communists as a provocative act

unassociated with last year's events and would

provoke a sharp reaction from them in one form or

As for Hong Kong another. We would be quite ready to run this risk tel. No. 765

if we were satisfied that there was sufficient

justification for doing so, i.e. that failure to

deregister would have a really substantial affect

on public morale and on confidence in the

government.

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