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TO PRIORITY PEKING TELEGRAM MUYBER 624 OF13 OCTOLER INFO HONG KONG.

FOLLOWING FROM NEWS DEPARTMENT.

YOUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 1024 OF 12 OCTOBER:

VISIT: PRESS ARRANGEMENTS.

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FOLLOWING JOURNALISTS WOULD BE READY TO CROSS BORDER FROM

HONG KONG ON 24 OCTOBER IF CHINESE CAN MAKE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS

FOR TRANSFORT AND ACCO›MODATION:

BRITISH ORGANISATIONS

MARTIN WOOLLACOTT, VINCENT RYDER, CLARE HOLLINGWORTH, JOHN DICKIE,

WILLY WOLFF, JON AKASS, DENTS BLOODWORTH, ROBERT STEPHENS,

DAN RCGEACHTE, JIN BIDDULPH, ROBERT KEARSLEY, ERIC TAIRER, ANTHONY LAWRENCE, PETER SNOW, CHRISTOPHER. FAULDS, JOHN SOLDINI, EMILY MOFARQUHAR, JOHN DIXON, RODERICK MCFARQUHAR, STEPHEN

CLAYPOLE-CHITH.

AMERICAN OR ANISATIONS

ARTHUR GA ISHON, DAVID ALAMAN, CHARLES SAITH (UPI),

2. LESS CERTAIN, BUT NEVERTHELESS POSSIBLE CANDIDATES ARE:

DEREX WILSON, DEREK INGRAY, PETER WAIGHT.

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CHARLES SMITH (FT) PROPOSES TO ARRIVE IN PEKING AT APPROXIMATELY

THE SAME TIME AS THE OFFICIAL PARTY.

4. VE REALISE THAT CHINESE MAY ETSTINQUISH BETWEEN BRITISH AND

AMERICAN ORGANISATIONS AND REFUSE EARLY ENTRY TO THE LATTER.

HOWEVER, ALL THREE AWE NATURALLY KEEN TO ARRIVE IN CHINA AS EARLY

AS POSSIBLE AND WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL IF, WHEN CO-MUNICATING THE LIST TO FOREIGN MINISTRY, YOU WOULD SUGGEST THEM AS CANDIDATES ALSO,

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