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SECRET

OUTWARD TELEGRAM

FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)

TO HONG KONG (0.A.G.)

Cypher

Sent 7 July, 1967.

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IMMEDIATE

SECRET

No. 1388

Addressed to 0.A.G.Hong Kong Repeated

Peking.

Your telegram No. 972.

We agree with view expressed in last sentence

of your paragraph 4. We hope that need to take such action will not arise; but if a situation of the kind envisaged in your paragraph 3 should develop, we must accept any action either by the Court or the Attorney General as inevitable,

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