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Registry No.

DEPARTMENT

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret Secret

Confidential

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

reach addressee(s)

PRIORITY MARKINGS

(Date)

Despatched

Emergency Immediate X

Priority

Restricted Unclassified

-Routine

AKG 380

11/8/62.

22002

D.T.D.

En Clair Code Cypher

[ Security classification

CONFIDENTIAL

[Codeword—if any]

Draft Telegram to:---

Addressed to

GOVERNOR, HONG KONG EIVED.

telegram No...

1659

..(date). 12 AUG 1967.

And to...

NA

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

No.

(Date)

And to:-

Repeat to:-

Saving to:-

see of a mergements could be made for

Distribution:-

me

H.K.W.ID 1.G.D.

Copies to:

WITH ESER ASSI

16

repeated for information to.

Saving to..

Personal for Gass from Minister of State,

Lord Shepherd.

In Hall's letter of 8 August it was tentatively suggested that I might visit Hong Kong in mid-October.

I am,

however,

wondering whether an earlier visit might be helpful especially from the point of view of

morale in Hong Kong.

2.

As you will appreciate I have recently assumed responsibility for Hong Kong as well

as the other dependent territories, and I am naturally following developments there with

interest.

If it would help I would be willing to pay you a visit in, say, a week's time in order to see the problems on the spot and to meet the officers (e.g. police) engaged in

current operations.

3. Such a visit could be wrapped up

presentationally so that it would appear I was

visiting Hong Kong as part of a general visit to the Far East. For example, I could visit

Singapore en route to Hong Kong.

4. Grateful for your assessment as to whether

about

a visit in say a week's time would be likely

to cause any difficulties in Betol HELPFUL OR WALETNER VISIT / AS PLACED

Choprax WOULD BE BETTER. фортом

in HALL's live

every

best wish

wish.

MALCOLM SHEPHERD

Ed (1626)

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