Reply to post: Re: Aiming Error

Goodbye Vulcan: Blighty's nuclear bomber retires for the last time

Allan George Dyer

Re: Aiming Error

@AC - Are you sure the Chinese wanted an early takeover of HK? If they were impatient, they could have turned off the water supply and walked in any time fromthe '60s. AFAIK, the issue was brought up because local businesses wanted assurance about land leases when Britain's 99 year lease on the "New Territories" ran out.

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