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TELEGRAM NUMBER 241 OF 17 FEBRUARY
INFO PEKING HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON
FUTURE OF HONG KONG: PRESS COVERAGE
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21 FEB 1983
MOST EDITORIALS PUBLISHED SINCE THE LUNAR NEW YEAR HAVE FOCUSSED
ON MY NEW YEAR MESSAGE (BROADCAST ON THE EVENING OF 13 FEBRUARY).
IT WAS GENERALLY WELCOMED.
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2. ALTHOUGH THE TWO MAIN LEFT-WING NEWSPAPERS, TA KUNG PAO AND
WEN WEI PO REPORTED THE MESSAGE (ON 16 FEBRUARY), THEY DREW ON
ITS CONTENT SELECTIVELY. TA KUNG PAO PUBLISHED MOST OF THE TEXT BUT OMITTED TWO KEY SECTIONS: THE FIRST IN WHICH I SPOKE OF THE STRENGTH OF QUOTE FAMILY SPIRIT UNQUOTE IN HONG KONG AND LIKENED THE QUOTE COMMUNITY OF HONG KONG UNQUOTE TO A QUOTE LARGER FAMILY UNQUOTE: THE SECOND IN WHICH I SAID THAT QUOTE THOSE OF US WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE NEGOTIATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG KNOW FULL WELL WHAT IS IN YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS UNQUOTE AND QUOTE I REMAIN CONVINCED
THAT AN AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED WHICH WILL RECONCILE DIFFERENCES AND WHICH WILL BE ACCEPTABLE TO THE GREAT NATIONS OF CHINA AND BRITAIN AND WELCOMED HERE UNQUOTE. NEITHER OF THESE SECTIONS WAS REPRODUCED BY WEN WEI PO, WHICH GAVE ONLY A BRIEF
ACCOUNT OF THE MESSAGE.
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