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From
To:-
Governor,
HONG KONG.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
No. 136
I am writing to amplify my telegram no. 201
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which I wanted to send without delay on account of your
understandable anxiety to see the answer to your
telegrams 177 and 246. I am sorry that you had to
send us a reminder but we were
awaiting the
views of the Board of Trade on matters relevant to your
forthcoming negotiations with the Swedes about which
we had consulted them.
2.
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I said in paragraph 2 of my telegram that the
indications were that the Swedes would confine
themselves to seeking an extension of the existing
trading arrangements between you for a further period
of one year without pressing for restraints on any
further items. The strongest indication that this is
so is of course in their memorandum dated 18 March
in Stockholm. At the time of your telegram no. 224
you had evidently not received this but I assume that
by now the Consul General has handed the memorandum to you. I have a
cope.
3.
But apart from the fact that the terms of the
memorandum ought to preclude discussion about the
•
restraint of new items, I must tell you that Baron de
Geer, who was in London recently, called on the Board
In the
Lade
A
of Trade to discuss a number of matters.
course of discussions with Mr. Goldsmith he referred
to the forthcoming negotiations in Hong Kong. After