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1. We first commissioned these reports as part of our attempt to make the period from the Secretary of State's first unveiling statement in April to the publication of the agreement in September the first part of the test of acceptability. should enable us to claim in November that Ministers have been kept in regular touch with the debate in Hong Kong on the future (see Mr Clift's first submission, flag A). continue to submit these reports to Mr Luce.

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The first reports were exactly right, giving us a summary of proposals for the future made by pressure groups in Hong Kong, and the views of District officers on opinion in their areas. Later reports have tended to be general accounts of what has happened in Hong Kong, coupled with repetition of what we have already seen in press reports.

I attach a slightly amended version of Mr Hum's teleletter, designed to nudge Hong Kong back onto the right path.

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8 August 1984

CODE 18-77

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Vonathan Pou!!.

J N Powell

Hong Kong Department

MKK040/25

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- 9 AUG 1984

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