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Registry No.
HK
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s)..
DEPARTMENT Hong Kong Department
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
PRIORITY MARKINGS
(Date)
Despatched.......
I
Flash-
Sefret
Immediate
Confidential
Priory
Restricted
Unclassified
Routine
29/4
长
29/11
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Clair. Code Cypher
Draft Telegram tox
Hong Kong (Immediate)
No.mediate) 616
(Date)
And to:-
[Security classification
-if any
[Codeword-if any]
CONFIDENTIAL
[
Privacy marking -if any
]
Addressed to
Hong Kong
telegram No. 1616
(date)
29 November
And to
repeated for information to
Peking
Repeat to: Peking (Immediate)
Saving to:-
Distribution:- Departmental
Hong Kong Dept.
FED
Saving ............
Your telegram no. 2213.
Detainees
Release of all six simultaneously next week
would have considerable impact on external
opinion and be more likely to be interpreted by
Chinese as significant evidence of our desire to
de-escalate requiring matching gesture from them.
seen to As seen from here it would involve no greater
internal risk than release of two batches of three
after one day's interval.
Grateful therefore if
ases
you would give consideration to simultaneous
say or Wedding Tuesday on Wednesday. release, L
There would be advantage in releases
having taken place before Lord Shepherd summons
Chinese chargé d'affaires (my telegram to
24
Copies to:-
a
Peking no. 952).
You
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