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R. BARTON

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J.I.C./2095/56

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COLONIAL OFFICE

JOINT INTELLIGENCE STAFF

SCALE AND NATURE OF A POSSIBLE CHINESE COMMUNIST ATTACK AGAINST THE COLONY OF HONG KONG UP TO THE END OF 1958

We have been informed by the Secretary, J.I.C.(F.E.) that the report by the L.I.C. Hong Kong on the above subject should be amended as follows:-

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Page 8. para. 35, line 8

for "100" read "400"

You will recall that the above report was taken into account in the preparation of our paper on the military threat to Hong Kong up to 1960.

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(Signed) N. H. WEST

L.I.C.(H.K.)/1(Final) dated 9th May, 1956

J.I.C. (56)50(Final)

22nd August, 1956

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