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ELELETTER TO PEKING

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TELELETTER

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CONFIDENTIAL

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TELELETTER

FROM: R.P. MARGOLIS, DEPUTY POLITICAL ADVISER HONG KONG

FILE REF: SCR 5/3571/81

DATED 18 MARCH 1983

TO: R.N. PEIRCE ESQ., HM EMBASSY, PEKING COPIED TO: W. MORRIS ESQ., HKGD, FCO

FUTURE OF HONG KONG

23

PLEASE REFER TO YOUR TELELETTER OF 16 MARCH. THE REUTERS "CORRESPONDENT APPEARS TO HAVE GOT HOLD OF A VERSION OF THE STORY IN THE HONG KONG TIMES REPORTED IN OUR TELNO 334 AND FURTHER DISCUSSED' IN FCO TELNO 240 AND OUR TELNO 362.

SIGNED R.P. MARGOLIS

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HÙNG KONG

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CONFDIENTIAL

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This sounds like another version of the "Reference News" story (attached) ters refer). odd Hat Peting have

not liked it to our bel no 240

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of cause the Chinese leades did tell H3 Thatcher Hez year

wanted

Progress or two: Septenter will be

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a year i propose

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RN PETRCE PEKING

REF NIL

DATED 16 MARCH 1983

FOLLOWING FOR:-

COPY TO:-

W MORRIS ESQ., HKGD,ECO

may digaround.

RP MARGOLIS ESQ, DP, HONG KONG, 1-11 040/21.17/3

22 MAR 1983

FUTURE OF HONG KONG

1.

REUTERS'S CHIEF CORRESPONDENT HERE TOLD US YESTERDAY THAT A

FRIEND HAD TOLD HIM OF A CHINESE INTERNAL DOCUMENT WHICH

SOMEONE HAD SEEN WHICH STATED THAT UNLESS AGREEMENT WERE

REACHED BETWEEN BRITAIN AND CHINA ON THE MODALITIES OF A TRANSFER

OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER HONG KONG BY SEPTEMBER,

A UNILATERAL TIMETABLE AND CONDITIONS WOULD BE IMPOSED.

See (24)

2. IN VIEW OF THE REMOTENESS OF THE SOURCE FROM THE ALLEGED

ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, NEITHER WE NOR REUTERS ARE INCLINED TO ATTACH

MUCH CREDENCE TO THIS. BUT IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT SUCH A DOCUM-

MENT EXISTS.

SIGNED..

NNNN

.RN PEIRCE

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Что теби 13

This seems cleaver now.

жень

If no progress by September then they will fix a time table. That's where the Sept. dute (in garbled forum came from,

I don't think we need jollow up

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