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FROM R D CLIFT HONG KONG AND GENERAL DEPARTMENT

FILE REFERENCE HKK 040/1 DATED 23 MARCH 83

FOLLOWING FOR R J T MCLAREN ESQ CMG, POLITICAL ADVISER,

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FUTURE OF HONG KONG

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR LETTER SCR 1/11/62 183 OF 16 FEBRUARY

ENCLOSING A RECORD OF KEN TOPLEY'S CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY

DICKS.

2. ON THE CHINA QUARTERLY POINT WE GATHER THAT THE SEPTEMBER

ISSUE IS TO BE DEVOTED TO HONG KONG: ITS ACHIEVEMENTS, PROSPECTS

AND PROBLEMS. DICKS, LUCIEN PYE AND CHRISTOPHER HOWE ARE

AMONG THOSE CONTRIBUTING. THERE WAS SOME DOUBT EARLIER AS TO

WHETHER ENOUGH SUITABLE MATERIAL COULD BE ASSEMBLED.

3. ACCORDING TO DAVID WILSON, BRIAN HOOK IS AT PRESENT IN HONG

KONG. HE IS BELIEVED TO BE STAYING AT FLAT 5C, 39A CONDUIT

ROAD. HE HAS A RELATIVE WHO WORKS FOR DAVID AKERS-JONES' OFFICE,

NAME UNKNOWN.

4. AS FOR THE LECTURE AT SOAS BY A 'CHINESE LEGAL SPECIALIST'

THE ONLY PERSON WHO FITS THIS DESCRIPTION AND WHO HAS LECTURED

THERE RECENTLY IS RAN LONGBO, NOW WITH THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

WHO, AS YOU MAY KNOW, WAS IN LONDON FOR TWO MONTHS LATE LAST YEAR.

RAN'S LECTURE WAS DEVOTED TO YOUTH PROBLEMS AND HE APPARENTLY

SAID NOTHING OF INTEREST ON HONG KONG. BUT OF COURSE HE

UNDOUBTEDLY SPOKE PRIVATELY ABOUT OTHER MATTERS.

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