We have been causdeng

with Rekan + their advisers.

Gepare

Lazards, who advise Metro Cam, have suggested that this could

be provided either:-

To be desuused further with

Bork. How

covert is if corded they do it.

a.

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setting up some Hong Kong company apparently to

borrow money under buyer credit terms to pay for the

train sets in the knowledge that in fact the money

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would be on lent at a rate of exchange which would rate of exchange which would

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permit transfers on an adequate scale to Metro Cam.

Departments' reaction is that this is probably ultra

vires in addition to setting a bad precedent and being

too obvious.+ we don't cuusder further

b.

creating a forward market in Hong Kong dollars

assuming that the dollar will appreciate against the

£ by more than it actually will, thus paying to Metro

Cam more £s for the Hong Kong dollars they will eventually

receive than they would normally expect. This would only

be possible if the Bank of England dealt and held reserves

in Hong Kong dollars. They do neither thing.

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