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Registry No. Hw3 21/5-
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DEPARTMENT
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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Confidential
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PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Clair.
Gode Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
GOVERNOR,
HONG KONG
No.
(Date)
And to:-
Repeat to:-
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s).
PRIORITY MARKINGS
(Date)..
Despatched
9/10
0550
Security classification -if any
ation]
CONFIDENTIAL
[
Privacy marking ]
-if any
[Codeword—if any].
Addressed to
telegram ...............
GOVERNOR, HONG KONG
(date)
NG 1510
And to
8/10.
repeated for information to
Saving to.
741
Your telegram No. 2061.
Harbour Tunnel.
ECGD's statement to the Press included the
following final sentence:
"It is also necessary,
Saving to:--
Distribution:----
Files
HKD
Export- Promotion Dist
CFPD
Copies to:-
K.W. Gotteyal (ECGD)
C.C. Lucas
(Freamy)
and is a normal" (repeat normal) "requirement for
projects of this nature that the Government or Central
Bank of the country concerned should give a guarantee
of repayment of the debt."
2. This was a general statement in the light of
ECGD's experience.
It followed an explanation of
reasons why a joint and several guarantee is required.
These reasons included by implication the point that
in this case no Government or Central Bank guarantee
would be forthcoming.
3、 Replies to your questions at paragraph 2 are :-
(1) The Tunnel Company have throughout represented
the Hong Kong Government as a shareholder.
question thus arose of making Government
participation
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