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that it is very important, both in Hong

Kong's short-term interests and Britain's longer-term ones, that HMG should respond to such demands with sympathy and understanding. Indeed, this is all the more important since 4 June if Hong Kong is to survive the present crisis and enjoy the stable and prosperous future, both before and after 1997, which we have an historical duty to try to provide and to which so much

effort has been devoted.

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I am sending a copy of this despatch Ambassador in Peking.

to HM

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I remain, Sir,

Yours faithfully,

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David Wilson

Governor