TNAG-1097-FCO40-1347-Chinese-visa-office-in-Hong-Kong-1982 — Page 147

CONFIDENTIAL

GR 55

CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG 021052Z APR

17

TO PRIORITY FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELEGRAM NUMBER 373 OF 2 APRIL, 1981 INFO PRIORITY PEKING AND ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVE. OFFICE LONDON.

18

FFAGE LONDON.

HKIC

349/1

RECEIVED AN REGISTRY NO. 51

0 & APPID

DESK OFFICER INDEX

PA

REGISTRY Action Taken

Ah 4

PEKING TO FCO TELNOS 231 AND 232: VISA OFFICE

1. NO OBJECTION TO TEXT OF MEMORANDUM AS IN SECOND T.U.R.

2. WE WOULD MUCH PREFER NOT TO GIVE ADDITIONAL ASSURANCE IN

BRACKETS. THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH WE MIGHT WANT TO SEARCH THE PREMISES WOULD BE COMPLETELY ABNORMAL. BUT, IF WE HAD TO, THE LAST THING WE WOULD WANT TO DO WOULD BE TO FOREWARN THE

HEAD OF THE OFFICE.

MACLEHOSE

1

(THIS TELEGRAM WAS NOT ADVANCED]

LIMITED

HK & GD

FED

P & C D

LEGAL ADVISERS

MVD

SIR E YOUDE

MR DONALD

COPIES TO:

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE, LONDON

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