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......In Confidence
DRAFT letter
Type 1 +
From
To:-
W. Hughes, Esq., Board of Trade.
Sir Leslie Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Michael Wilford has just had a further meeting with
David Trench(who is back in London for a short time
At which they
(who
before returning to Hong Kong) to resume/discussion of
the draft document which emerged from our own meeting
with Trench on 26 November about the conduct of Hong
Kong's commercial relations. Notice of this occasion
was somewhat short and we did not feel justified in
asking if you wished to attend yourself or to send a
representative. Moreover we rather hoped that no matter
of enough substance to make this necessary would arise.
Trench was armed with the telegraphic comments of
his officials which, as I told you in my letter of 2
December, he had more time to obtain. As a result we
now propose amendments to paragraphs 1 and 3 of the
original text, and the addition of the new paragraph 8 (with consequent re-numbering of the remaining para- graphs). These amendments and additions are reflected
in Annex 1 to this letter.
icials
Alegraphatashed us
a
The suggested amendment to paragraph 1 takes some
although not
account
by no means as much as Hong Kong would like -
of the view that where there is a difference of opinion
between the Hong Kong Government and ourselves how the
beak
Colony's best interests can be served Hong Kong's shall
prevail. In the case of paragraph 3 the final sentence
which we suggest might be inserted does no more than
leave the choice of venue (for negotiations where
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