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FM FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 061600Z

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TO IMMEDIATE TOKYO TELEGRAM NUMBER 212 OF 6 APRIL AND TO HONG KONG,

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TOKYO TEL. TO THE FCO NO. 251 OF 26 MARCH

GENERALISED PREFERENCES:

HONG KONG

WE AGREE WITH HONG KONG THAT THE IMPORTANT POINTS ARE THOSE

SET OUT IN PARAGRAPH 6 OF THEIR TELEGRAM TO THE FCO NO. 227 OF 1

APRIL. HONG KONG IS NOT OF COURSE GOVERNED BY THE ANNUAL UK

FINANCE ACT, NOR BY THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACT 1952, NOR BY THE EXCHANGE CONTROL ACT 1947.

2. SINCE MITI'S REQUEST AMOUNTS TO THEIR SAYING (AS WAS EARLIER THE CASE WITH OUR OTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORIES) THAT ASSERTIONS TO

THE ABOVE EFFECT ARE NOT ENOUGH, AND THAT THEY MUST HAVE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE, WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO BE AS FORTHCOMING

AS WE CAN IN RESPONSE. GRATEFUL THEREFORE IF HE SEES NO OBJECTION

IF GOVERNOR HONG KONG COULD HAVE COPIES OF FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS SENT

TO TOKYO - LETTERS PATENT, ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS, LEGISLATION REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH 5(A) AND (B) OF HONG KONG TELEGRAM NUMBER 227 AND SUITABLE ORDINANCES ILLUSTRATING POINTS MADE IN PARAGRAPH 2 OF THAT TELEGRAM.

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