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Registry No.
DEPARTMENT
HONG KONG
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted
Unclassified
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Clair. Code Cypher
Draft Telegram to:
HONGKONG
No.
(Date)
And to:-
1384
13/8
PRIORITY MARKINGS
Flash
"mmediate
Priority
Routine
[Sec
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach adresse(s) at very first call
(Date) +3/8
Despatched
CYT
Security classification -if any
[ Privacy marking
-if any
[Codeword-if any]
CONFIDENT IAL
]
Addressed to
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
telegram ................
(date)
13 August
And to
repeated for information to
Peking.
Repeat to:
PEKING
Saving to:-
Distribution:—
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Following personal from Galsworthy.
Your telegram to Peking No. 344, paragraph 5. I know same thought will have been exercising your mind as it has ours in the past 48 hours, namely what to do about Chung Wah School should Hopson's arrival in Hong Kong be delayed beyond afternoon of 14th. I am not thinking so much in terms of a deliberate intention on part of Chinese to relate his arrival at Canton or the border to the eleventh hour on Chung Wah, but in terms of a purely fortuitous concatenation of these two events which, when realised by authorities in Kwangtung or on border, might prove irrestible temptation to them to detain Hopson in order to pressurise us into reversing our decision on Chung Wah.
2.
In the entirely new and unforeseen circumstances that now confront us, i.e. with Hopson in process of coming out, we must obviously avoid anything which could bring about situation in paragraph 1 above; and in these new circumstances we are sure that we
As for H.K. Tel. No 344 to Peking should need to consul
consultMinister
ers once more before
de registration were effected if this were to be before
Hopson's arrival in Hong Kong.
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