TNAG-0077-FCO40-113-Action-against-Communist-press-1967 — Page 184

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Registry No,

DEPARTMENT

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION PRIORITY MARKINGS

Top Secret Secret

Emergency}*

Confidential Restricted Unclassified

Immediate

Priority

Routine

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

reach addressee(s)

(Date)

Despatched

En Clair.

Code Cypher

I

Security classification -if any

SECRET

IMMEDIATE

[Codeword--if any).

Draft Telegram to:--

Addressed to

HONGKONG......

telegram .................

.....(date)...

.........

2E/1

No..............

(Date)

And to:-

And to... PEKING (IMMEDIATE) AND ROUTINE TO POLAD SINGAPORE

repeated for information to.........

Saving to....

Your telegram No.768.

AND WASHINGTON

Disturbances,

Repeat to:-

Peking (I mediate)

and Folad

m

Singapore and Washington (routine)

Saving to:---

Distribution:-

We agree that courses outline in paragraph 4 of

your telegram under reference are not so severe as

deportation and are open to less criticism. But, on the

assessments of CPG involvement in Peking telegram No.626

to Foreign Office and your telegram No.776, we judgə it

would be wiser to avoid action against their "officials"

in the NCNA, Bank of China and China Resources

Company if at all possible, since this would make it the

more difficult for them to disengage from a policy of

all-out confrontation.

As for Hong

Kong telegram No.

768. Copies to:-

2.

:

On the other hand, we appreciate that officials

of the NCNA and Bank have been in the forefront of the

anti-Government propaganda campaign which must be

effectively countered if the confidence of the ordinary

people of Hong Kong is to be retained.

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SECRET

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