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b) The proportion of total POL storage capacity in Hong Kong controlled by China (for Appendix, para 8);
c) 1977 data for volume of petroleum products supplied by China (for Appendix, para 8);
d) Value and total volume of water supplied by China in 1976/77 and price charged for it (for Appendix, para 9);
e) Volume of rail freight from China 1972-77 to establish how the traffic has expanded (for Appendix, para 12);
f) Confirmation of the details of China's commercial investments which we had in large part to take from open source material (for Appendix, para 13);
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Confirmation of the number of bank branches of the communist banks and total bank branches. The proportion of bank deposits controlled by the communist banks would be an important statistic to include (for Appendix, para 14);
h) An indication of which public utilities the communist unions are strong in and a judgement on the strength of the FTU (for Appendix, para 20).
We think you might find it useful to send out the draft appendix and require- ments ahead of the draft JIC note so that a quick start could be made on filling in the gaps and commenting on the appendix.
Copy to:
J A B Stewart, Esq,OBE, Hong Kong & General Dept, FCO. Lt Col H Sloan, JSIS, Hong Kong
Lt Col A Bennett, DIL(d)
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