TNAG-1629-FCO40-2245-Visits-by-Sir-David-Akers-Jones-(Acting-Governor-of-Hong-Kon-1987 — Page 40

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2 1 DEC 1937

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GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO PEKING, 3-5 DECEMBER:

ECEMBE

PRESS RELEASE.

1. THE GOVERNOR AGREED WITH AMBASSADOR KE DURING HIS VISIT THAT IT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE TO ISSUE ANY FORMAL JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON THIS OCCASION, AS WAS DONE TO MARK HIS FIRST VISIT AS GOVERNOR TO PEKING IN SEPTEMBER. INSTEAD, THE MFA PREPARED AND CLEARED WITH THE GOVERNOR IN THE MARGINS A NEWS RELEASE WHICH THEY UNDERTOOK TO HAVE ISSUED BY THE NEW CHINESE NEWS AGENCY (NCNA) ON THE EVENING OF 4 DECEMBER. THE CHINESE TEXT (THE ONLY FORM IN WHICH

IT WAS GIVEN TO US) FOLLOWS TO HKD AND HONG KONG BY BAG.

2. MIFT CONTAINS THE TEXT OF THE RELEASE AS IT EVENTUALLY APPEARED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE NCNA BULLETIN OF 5 DECEMBER, WITH A 4 DECEMBER DATELINE. THE TEXT CLEARLY GOT GARBLED AT SOME POINT IN TRANSMISSION AND/OR TRANSLATION. WHERE THE WORD CONDUCIVE'' APPEARS IN THE PENULTIMATE SUB-PARAGRAPH, WE HAD ACTUALLY AGREED THAT THE TEXT SHOULD SAY ''USEFUL AND HARMONIOUS''

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3. FULLER REPORT ON CHINESE PRESS REACTIONS TO GOVERNOR'S VISIT

FOLLOWS BY TELELETTER.

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