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TO PRIORITY PEKING

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TELEGRAM NUMBER 897 OF 13 DECEMBER 78

INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG, UKMIS GENEVA, HANOI

FOLLOWING FROM MURRAY.

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1 WE ARE REPEATING UKMIS GENEVA TELEGRAMS HOS 1838 AND 1339 ABOUT REFUGEES FROM INDO CHIMA,

2. IT SEEMS LOGICAL ON GROUNDS OF SIZE, POPULATION AND AFFINITY THAT THE CHINESE MIGHT CONSIDER ABSORBING MORE OF THE ETHNIC- CHINESE REFUGEES, HOW DO YOU THINK THIS COULD BE BEST PUT TO THEN? WE WOULD NOT WANT TO DO THIS IN A WAY WHICH WOULD MAKE THEN LESS RESPONSIVE TO OUR PROBLEMS OVER HONG KONG, SHOULD WE SEEK TO PROMOTE APPROACHES BY THE WINE COLLECTIVELY AND/OR BY THE UNHCR7

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DS/LCRD GORONWY ROBERTS

PS/MR. LUARD

PS/PUS

MR. CORTAZZI

MR.MURRAY

MR. WEIR

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