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Hong Kong

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HONG KONG

No

270

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(Date)

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repeated for information to

Peking

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ARCHIVES No. 63 10 FEB1968

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We

Your telegram No. 135: Hong Kong Annual Report]

agree that the Annual Report on the Colony's

Regulations affairs which you are required under the Colonial law

The Secretary of State

to make to me (and which is placed in the Library of

the House of Commons for the information of Members

of Parliament) could not possibly omit a factual

account of last year's troubles. Omission of any

would such account might well be interpreted in Hong Kong

as an indication of the Government's weakness. On

the other hand, sympathise with the view that the

the possiblity of a

we

improvement in Hong Kong and signs of a possible

9eurally slight improvement in Sino-British relations/ought

not to be put in unnecessary jeopardy by what appears in the Annual Report. In this connexion therefore

we have carefully considered the points made by Hopson in Peking telegram No. 177. We are not think.

in itself

do

however, convinced that the text/(particularly as amended in your telegram under reference) will

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