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Registry No.

DEPARTMENT

1-KK6/548/3

Hong Kong

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret

Secret

C(Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

PRIORITY MARKINGS

(Date)

Flash Immediate

Priority Routine

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Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s).....

Despatched

CYPHER

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

[Sect

Security classification —if any

CONFIDENTIAL

2918502

En Clair.

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Privacy marking -if any

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NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

Code

Cypher

Draft Telegram to:- Governor Hong

Kong

No.875

(Date)

29/11

And to:-

Repeat to:-

Saving to:

Distribution:-

As for Hong Kong telegram No 890

Copies to:-

185729111

• 1910

[Codeword—if any]

Addressed to

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

And to

repeated for information to

Saving to..

Your telegram No 890

GOVERNOR HONG KONG

..(date)

Personal for MacLehose from Monson.

1. Your point (B) Executive Council.

Timing

Matter will be taken by

is most awkward.

Ministers at the highest level at 11.30 hours gmt

on 30 November.

We do not know which way the

decision will go and we do not want to pre-judge

it. If decision should go the wrong way our

Ministers will press as a minimum for maximum

time for consultation.

2. In circumstances we think you might give a

hint to Executive Council of what is in the wind.

You might say that, as they may have seen in the

press, the textile industry in Lancashire has made

representations to HMG about the high level of

imports of cotton textiles and (in strictest

confidence) that this has led to strong pressure

CONFIDENTIAL

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