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Sir David Trench, 4.C.M.G., M.C.
Government House, HONG KONG
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W. S. CARTER
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You will be surprised to hear, that your
Personal Telegram No. 19 about the Cross
Harbour Tunnel coming as it did on top of a
number of suggestions from less disinterested
quarters, that the Board of Trade should
re-consider its previous decision on the subjeet
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of finance guarantees for this project, tipped
our
the scale in the direction of intervention.
by this Ministry. I enclose a copy of a
letter which Lord Shepherd wrote yesterday
to Lord Brown, asking him to look at the matter
once more. Of course I do not know what the
outcome will be, but you will be glad to see
We are pressing for
that the whole issue his once again been to be
thoroughly examined once again.
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Although as you say in your own telegram,
it is no doubt public knowledge in Hong Kong that ECGD took their previous decision partly
at least because they judged that there was
an element of political risk in the project,
it would of course be most unfortunate if we
were ever to lead publicly guilty to this.
There can therefore be no question of Colonel
Clage for example, knowing any more than that.
the whole matter was under urgent consideration
this time.
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