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CONFIDENTI ÄL

BRUSSELS TELEGRAM NO. 299 TO FOREIGN OFFICE

BENELUX

STATISTICAL NUMBERS

61.03.70

NIGHTWEAR FOR MEN AND BOYS

32 TONS

61.04.50

NIGHTWEAR FOR WOMEN GIRLS

CHILDREN

14 TONS

61.05.90

HANKERCHIEFS.

62.02.03)

TABLE, BED, AND HOUSEHOLD.

62.02.05 ) 62.02.25)

LINEN (NOT TERRY)

57,600 DOZENS

40 TONS

HOUSEHOLD LINEN OF TERRY CLOTH

45 TONS

62.02.20

2.

WITH REGARD TO (B) I HAVE TALKED TO BOTH DE WAARD AND. DE THEULEGOT AND IT IS MY IMPRESSION THAT THEY WOULD BOTH FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT AT THIS STAGE TO COME TO HONK KONG, BUT 'THE BENELUX GOVTS HAVE REACHED NO FINAL DECISION.

DECISION. THE INTER- PRETATION OF (B) IS THAT THEY WOULD PREFER ANY DISCUSSIONS TO BE HELD IN EITHER BRUSSELS OR THE HAGUE AND THE EARLIEST WOULD BE IN THE LAST DAYS OF JUNE OR THE BEGINNING OF JULY. 1 AM MEETING DE WAARD IN THE HAGUE ON MONDAY 12TH JUNE. AND I WILL THEN CABLE YOU AGAIN.

F.O. PLEASE PASS TO THE HAGUE 58, UKMIS GENEVA 6, AND

UNNUMBERED TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.

SIR R. BARCLAY

DESP.

RECD,

1650Z 07 JUN.

1650Z 07 JUN.

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED

AND TO HONG KONG 1

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

E.R.D.

RV

CONFIDENTIAL

ADVANCE COPIES SENT

SENT TO HONG KONG AB CONNO BALTI OFFICE (D.T.D.)

TELEGRAM NO.

1178