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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1

F K Li Esq

Secretary for Social Services

Colonial Secretariat HONG KONG

Telephone 01-

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Your reference

L/M 293/74

Our reference

Date

HKK 13/13

15 October 1974

Dear F.K.

CLOSURE OF THE "CHINA MAIL"

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Thank you for your letter of 18 September. Lord Goronwy- Roberts wrote to the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, basing himself on your advice.

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You may like to see the attached reply from the Journalists Union, which shows that both the Labour Department's actions and your advice have gone down well. If I may say so, this is good for Hong Kong both ministerially and publicly in the UK. All thanks to you.

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I am copying this letter to the Governor.

Yours ever

Andrew Shive

A C Stuart

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.

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HE Sir Murray MacLehose KCMG MBE

HONG KONG

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