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8. Since drafting this, I have learned by telephone from Hong Kong

that the Chinese police have put a proposal informally to the Hong

Kong Police Commissioner much along the lines of (iii) above. It is

unlikely that the idea has been cleared in Peking or even thought

through at a high level, but I have asked Hong Kong for a report.

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