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Registry HWB 6/20 DRAFT
No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
To:-
LETTER
C.F. Haddon-Cave Esq.,
Colonial Secretariat,
Secret.
Confidential.
Hong Kong.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
...In Confidence
Mr. G.I. Brown
20/3
To be signed by Mr. Carter.
able
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Although I am not yet-in a position to reply
immediately to the request in your letter of 12 March for
of
Export news about the provisional information to the Hong Kong A
Credit Insurance Corporation, I hope to be able to do so
within the next two or three weeks.
Several reminders
to the Board of Trade have not produced any result but
earlier this week Ian Brown spoke to his opposite number
in the Board of Trade about this matter. He was told that
a very full reply had been drafted; it was being cleared
with the departments concerned and the Board of Prade
to be
was
expected that it would be signed by Lord Brown in about 10
days time.
I am sorry this business has dragged on so long but
We shall
it now looks as if it will soon be concluded.
Something to report
have
for good or
good or bad.
бога
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