Registry No. HKK 6/331/1 DEPARTMENT Hong Kong
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secuse
Secret
Confidential
Restric
Unclassified
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
PRIORITY MARKINGS (Date)
Frastr
Priority
*
Despatched
[Security_ classification]
-if any
Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s)
3117 1718
CYPHER
CONFIDENTIAL
En Clatt.
[
Privacy marking -if any
]
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
O
Code Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
Governor Hong Kong
No
492
(Date) 31 July
And to:-
31/4
[Codeword-if any]
Addressed to
telegram No..
And to
NEUTRAL
GOVERNOR, HONG KONG
#92 (date)
31 July.
repeated for information to OTTAWA, UKMIS GENEVA,
WASHINGTON
Repeat to:- lottawa
UKMIS Geneva
Washington
asathig ton
Saving to:-
Distribution:—_ INTERNATIONAL TRADE 'we' Think that the Firing of any such negotiation might
Copies to:- need careful
Consideration,
Moreover
Saving to
We have received no report from you on Jordan's
discussions in Ottawa on 27 June but have now seen
Ottawa's record.
2.
From your telegram No. 27 to Washington we gathered
that you were contemplating a delegation to Ottawa early
next month presumably as follow up to meeting with
Howarth. However, in the light of more recent
developments, CTC postponement to October, and US State
Department's proposal that bilateral review should take
place in Geneva thereafter, we think you may now be undecided.
3. We should be grateful to be consulted before you
enter into any commitment to negotiate with Canadians
because it is apparent that more than a mere renewal of
annual agreement may be involved. We appreciate that
your approach to timing must be dictated largely by
staff availability but seen from here there would be
every advantage in a deliberate approach to an
loccasion