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FROM: I A ROBERTS

NEWS DEPARTMENT

DATE: 26 June 1984

cc: Sir Percy Cradock

HONG KONG: SIR S Y CHUNG's VISIT TO PEKING

1. As agreed in our telephone conversation today, I spoke

to Rodney Deitch, Lobby correspondent of (inter alia) the

Oriental Daily News to answer his two questions about the

brusque treatment meted out to Sir S Y Chung and his colleagues

and Sir S Y Chung's suggestion (reported in The Financial Times

today) that a law-monitoring committee should be appointed in Hong

Kong.

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2. I told Mr Deitch that I had nothing to add to the Governor's

remarks of support for the Unofficials (of which he was unaware)

as he left Kai Tak for Peking earlier today (HK telno 1693 ). his second question I said that all proposals and suggestions by

leading Hong Kong personalities would of course be taken into account

but we were not going to be drawn into commenting on each proposal.

3.

unattributably our

When asked whether he could characterise

reaction to the proposal as cool, I replied that I could neither guide

him nor gloss my earlier remarks further.

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