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5. WEN WEI PO PUBLISHED A LETTER JOINTLY SIGNED BY UNOFFICIAL

LEGCO MEMBERS SELINA CHOW AND ALLEN LEE IN REPLY TO A LETTER TO

THE SAME NEWSPAPER ON 7 AUGUST (MY TELNO 1163 REFERS). THE WRITERS

DEFENDED THEIR CALLS ON HONG KONG PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEIR POINTS OF VIEW BY SAYING THIS WAS PRECISELY THE ADVICE THEY WERE GIVEN BY DEN YINGCHAO AND XI ZHONGXUM WHEN THEY VISITED PEKING. CHOW AND

LEE SAID THAT PUBLIC VIEWS NEED NOT NECESSARILY BE CHANNELLED THROUGH UMELCO BUT COULD JUST AS WELL BE CONVEYED DIRECTLY TO PEKING OR VIA THE NEWS MEDIA.

HADDON-CAVE

FUTURE OF HONG KONG

LIRṀIMMSID

ED/HKD

HD/FED

ED/PLANNING STAFF

ED/PUSD

PS

PS/LADY YOUNG

PS/MR LUCE

PS/PUS

SIR J BULLARD

MR GIFFARD

MR DONALD

MR WRIGEMA

THIS TELEGRAM

WAS NOT ADVANCED

COPIES TO:

SIR I SINCLAIR LEGAL ADVISER

MR BURROWS

MR MARTIN

MR FLOWER

MR COLES

LEGAL ADVISERS ASSESSMENTS STAFF CABINET OFFICE

PUSD

NO 10 DOWNING ST

SIR A PARSONS

MR WALKER, RESEARCH DEPT.

MR ROBERTS

NEWS D

GOGGS

HONG KONG

LOUT, OFFICE

LONDON

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