Mr. Carter
Reference HKK 6/548/3.
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Please see the telegram to Guidance Department from Mr. Rounthwaite at (14).
2.
Unless there has been a failure of communication either between Mr. Hannam and Mr. Rounthwaite, or in the Bag which left on 10th January with the Newsletter at (8), the Trade Commission will have already been briefed about the state of play over the Tunnel up to 10th January.
It is true that there have been
developments since those of which Lord Brown has given an account to Lord Shepherd in his reply to Lord Shepherd's own letter of which Mr. Hannam has a copy But now Mr. Hannam has the ECGD telegram at (15) to complete the picture.
3. I have spoken to Mr. Gowers in the Board of Trade about the ECGD telegram but he had not yet a сору. I asked him whether he thought it likely that Hannam would use the information in paragraph 3 which certainly goes further than anything we have told the Governor. Mr. Gowers thought that he might well do so and to avoid the embarrassment of the Government learning this from the Trade Commission, I think we might well send a telegram. I have drafted on the main Tunnel File.
4.
I have not yet been in touch with Guidance Department about Rounthwaite's telegram but I imagine that they would have to get in touch with us as the parent Department.
4.
It is true, I am afraid, that although we mentioned the Kai-Tak Airport loan in Newsletter to Mr. Hannam, we only did so briefly. But this is because there is still little or nothing to say. I have seen in the Hong Kong press references to undertakings by visiting Conservative MPs to raise this matter when they return to the UK.
22 January, 1969
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