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A W Gaminara Esq CliG Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dear Bill,

SENKAKU ISLANDS (TIAO-YU T'AI)

13 August 1971

4. Bell BA..

248.71.

1. We corresponded earlier about the Senkakus, in connexion with the events of 10 April (your letter of 18 May refers; we do not seem to have heard from Hong Kong).

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Following the events of 7 July (recounted in Hong Kong telegram No 465 to you) we have had a further round here. You will have seen Seattle telegram No 14 of 6 August. now enclose copies of subsequent correspondence both from Seattle and Chicago, together with copies of the English language petitions handed in. The newspaper referred to in both cases was an issue of a lurid student publication put out at the Chinese University on 8 July.

3. I take it that what you said about the events of 10 April still applies and that we should continue to base ourselves on the point that police intervention in such cases is simply a response to actual or threatened breaches of the peace. But if there is any further guidance you or Hong Kong would like to offer we should be glad to have it, if only to arm our other Consular posts. I was on leave at the time of 7 July and may have missed something eg in Hansard?

cc CJ Howells Esq Hong Kong

Consul General, Seattle G W Jewkes Esq Chicago

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