RESTRICTED.
Mr. Laird.
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Japanese involvememt in Hong Kong.
You may be interested to see the attached latter to me
from Mark Goodfellow, the British Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong.
2.
Evidently the British Trade Commission in Hong Kong is
exercised about the hold which Japan is getting in the Colony. You will recall that Blackwell, the Senior Trade Commissioner,
referred to this in his letter of 24 November to Toms of DTI
at (20). Not only was Blackwell concerned about the effect on
British commercial standing in Hong Kong if the underground
railway contract goes to Japan but he was also worried about the
reaction of the CPG to the Colony falling into "the Japanese
economic sphere of influence".
3. Goodfellow suggests that we should ask the Hong Kong
Government for a copy of the document prepared by the Commerce
and Industry Department on Japanese involvement. I do not see
how we
can ask for this.
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