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TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

TELNO

OF 130945Z MARCH 92

Strictly

PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR FROM BURNS, AUSS

YOUR TELNO 778

IMMEDIATE

1. Many thanks for your tur. You are quite right.

to keep you abreast of the general plan of campaign.

think the general strategy has changed.

We do need

I do not

2. But you have asked for a better picture of the battle, and I

have naturally read it also in connection with the crie de coeur

to John Coles in your telno 761. These are all issues which you

and he will want to discuss when you see each other next week.

They may also be issues which, if you agree, we could touch on

at the end of the month.

3. Meanwhile in MIFT I have tried to give you a picture of the

scene here in London in a way which could be a basis for your

talk with John Coles and which you could share with your

most senior colleagues. John Coles will want to give you his

own gloss on all this and perhaps some additional colour. As I

hope will have been clear from my telno 465, we are very

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