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Registry No. HKK 1/10
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
.In Confidence
DRAFT
letter
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To: D. C. Ranthwaite, Esq.,
Trade Commissioner (Press
Relations)
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Type 1 +
From
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H. H. Stewart
Telephone No. & Ext.
18
Jai
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Department
Hong Kong
I am sorry not to have replied sooner to your
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letter 3/1/1 of 19 April about the visit to Hong Kong
of the two M.Ps. Messrs. Jones and Waldgn.
Of course we had seen from our own copies of Hong
Kong newspapers that all had not gone entirely smoothly
with this visit. However, we gathered, as you indicate
yourself, that most of the damage was done in the early
stages and our impression of the visit as a whole was
that in the end even the Hong Kong press felt that they
had rather overdone it. David Sellers in the Hong Kong
Government Office here thought that the visit had not
been unproductive and that the sum total of the impres-
sion which Mr. Jones conveyed (in particular was not
unfavourable.
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The pity of it all is that Messrs. Jones and
Walden in fact had a rather fuller brief than many
M.Ps. are likely to get. The Board of Trade briefed
them in writing, and sponsored as they were by the Hong
Kong Association, the Hong Kong Government Office enter-
tained them before they went and did their best to
paint a picture of conditions in the Colony. I appre-
ciate the points you make in your letter and entirely
agree that if it could be arranged all such visitors
should have a clear idea before they leave that when
they get to Hong Kong they will be, as someone has
recently put it, "like goldfish in a bowl". But M.Ps.
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