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STRICTLY PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR FROM MCLAREN AUSS
YOUR TELNOS 4379 AND 4380 AND PEKING TELNO 2030: HONG KONG AND
SHANGHAI BANK
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Please take action with Purves as soon as possible on the
Lines of Hong Kong telno 4380.
2.
We are content to leave it to you to judge how much of
me it would be appropriate to convey Purves. Our
17 Ke's message
18 first reaction was that paragraph c of TUR contained a little
19 more than was necessary; the fourth sentence could for example be
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We were grateful for your comments on the draft and those
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of Sir R Evans. We have amended the draft to take account of the
however 23 points in Hong Kong telno 4379. We would, like to retain the
h second part of the second sentence in point (ii) because it is an important point: but we have expanded it to make the meaning
clearer.
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We would prefer to keep point (vi) as
one, since we think it important not to appear to quote protest
too much unquote about there being no implications for a change of domicile. But the Chinese cannot have failed to notice that
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