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3. IN TWO FURTHER ARTICLES, PEOPLE'S DAILY OF 15 MAY CARRIES COMMENT FROM BOTH THE BRITISH AND HONG KONG

NEWSPAPERS ON THE UMELCO STATEMENT. THE BRITISH REMARKS QUOTED ARE THOSE OF MR ROBERT ADLEY MP,

SIR PETER BLAKER MP AND LORD MACLEHOSE. HONG KONG REMARKS INCLUDE A STATEMENT BY THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON TRADE UNION MOVEMENT, ZHENG HUITANG, THAT THE UMELCO STATEMENT DOES NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE MAJORITY OF HONG KONG PEOPLE (SMI-COLN,) A STATEMENT BY THE HONG KONG STUDENTS UNION THAT

THE SINO-BRITISH AGREEMENT CANNOT POSSIBLY REFLECT THE DETAILED PROVISIONS OF THE BASIC LAW (SEMI-COLON) A STATEMENT BY TWO URBCO MEMBERS HUANG MENGHUA AND LIN ZEPIAO, EXPRESSING DOUBT ABOUT THE REPRESETNATIVE NATURE OF UMELCO (SEMI-COLON)

A STATEMENT BY ANOTHER URBCO MEMBERS, YE XIEN,

THAT THE UMELCO STATEMENT WAS MOTIVATED BY

THE DESIRE OF ITS MEMBERS TO MAKE MORE MONEY AND

WAS THUS DISHONOURABLE (SEMI-COLON) A STATEMENT BY A MEMBER

OF THE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT OF HONG KONG UNIVERSITY XUE FENGXUAM, THAT UMELCO'S REMARKS ON SOVEREIGNTY WERE THREE YEARS OUT OF DATE WHILE THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S REMARKS IN HONG KONG ON 20 APRIL HAD BEEN MOST CLEAR (SEMI-COLN) AND A COMMENT FROM THE HONG KONG CENTRE DAILY NEWS THAT UMELCO'S VIEWS ON NATION- ALITY DID NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE MAJORITY OF

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