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JAL Morgan Esq

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Dear John,

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You no doubt saw news reports that the Chinese Red Cross had given 3 million yuan to the victims in Hong Kong of Typhoon Rose through the agency of the Federation of Trade Unions and the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, two communist organisations here.

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I enclose a copy of a record of a conversation I had with Mr. TAM Kon of NCNA on this subject on August 24.

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The offer has placed the Hong Kong Government in a dilemma. In so far as the offer is a friendly gesture to Hong Kong and a symbol of improved relations, it is to be welcomed. On the other hand the Hong Kong Government is bound to resent the implication that its own arrangements all sorts of

for relief are inadequate and that it needs funds from elsewhere. people in

We also suspect that the money may be used comparable by the communist organisations to subsidize their own

supporters and win new ones.

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At the time this letter goes into the bag we shall be discussing at Government House what line to take.

Your ever. Ather

(A F Maddocks)

RC Samuel Esq, Peking (with encl.)

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