TNAG-0138-FCO40-174-Conduct-of-Hong-Kong-commercial-relations-1969 — Page 83

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Registry No. HKK 6/18 DEPARTMENT Hong Kong

1.

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

PRIORITY MARKINGS

(Date)

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricture

Unclassified

flash Imprédiate Priority

Routine

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

En Clair.

Code Cypher

Draft Telegram to:-

Governor

No.

Hong Kong 59 (Date) 27. November

And to:-

#

Despatched

Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should reach addressee(s).

27/x1

14)

A

A

CYPHER

[ Security_classification

-if any

[ Privacy marking ]

-if any

CONFIDENTIAL

[Codeword—if any]

Addressed to

GOVERNOR,

HONG

KONG

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

(date)

And to

repeated for information to

Repeat to:-

Saving to:--

Distribution:-

Saving to

For Norman-Walker from Carter.

Conduct of Commercial Relations.

Sir David Trench would like your views on the

draft statement (text in MIFT) which has emerged from

discussions here and has been provisionally accepted

at official level by Departments including BOT and Min.

Tech. It would be helpful to have these not later than

8 December when Sir David returns to London. He hopes

that mere textual amendments as opposed to matters of

substance can be avoided.

2.

Statement originally contained an additional

paragraph as follows:

When HMG either

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Copies to:

Hong Kong

Government Off.

Sir Leslie Monson

11352 Mr. Wilford

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Mr. Whitehead

(a)

determines that Hong Kong's views and

interests must be over-ridden in favour

of a superior UK interest, or

(b)

is unable, for reasons of UK policy,

adequately to defend Hong Kong against

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