CONFIDENTIAL
PRIORITY PEKING
COPY HONG KONG GOVERNOR
Your Tel 411: UK/PRC Air Services
Please pass following message from Stevens to Lu Ruiling.
"Thank you for your letter of 27 July.
I am glad we shall be able to meet in
the Autumn to discuss matters of mutual
Unfortunately dates at the
concern.
end of August or in early September
are not possible because of summer
holidays. A meeting towards the end
of October has the advantage that it
will enable us to review the development
of traffic during the peak summer months.
I hope therefore that you will be able
to come to London at that time and I
look forward to hearing whether the dates
proposed in the week commencing 25 October
will be convenient to you.
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For your own information we are keen to hold talks
as near as possible to end of current season on 31 October:
(i) because we would like to force Chinese to show
their hand in applying for new permits and
before we meet
filing winter schedules in March they
argued steadily that additional capacity was
not required but afterwards increased their
Canton services from 3 to 4 a day, doubled