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CYPHER/CAT A

CONFIDENTIAL

FM UKMIS GENEVA 1016357

CONFIDENTIAL [ NEUTRAL)

TO ROUTINE GOVERNOR HONG KONG TEL NO 7 OF 18 JUNE

क्ष

INFO ROUTINE FCO, TOKYO, WASHINGTON (FOR HERMANN), UKDEL OECD AND

UKDEL EEC.

FROM PEARSON

GPS: JAPAN.

MEMBER OF JAPANESE MISSION HERE HAS GIVEN US INFORMALLY FOLLOWING INFORMATION WHICH MAY PERHAPS NOT BE NEW TO YOU: BUT WE HAVE HAD NO REPORTS SINCE 23 APRIL (WHITEHEAD'S LETTER TO BURNS COPIED DORWARD AND JORDAN'S TELEGRAM NO 5 FROM MANILA TO YOU: LATTER NOT TO ALL).

2:

KURODA (WHO IS FROM MITI) SAID THAT DECISION

HAD

NOW BEEN TAKEN AT POLITICAL LEVEL TO INCLUDE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES IN THE JAPANESE SCHEME, BUT THAT SCHEME WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED IN TWO STAGES (SEE WHITEHEAD'S PARA 3). BENIFICIARIES

TO WHOM QUOTE SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS UNQUOTE WOULD APPLY WOULD NOT BE INCLUDED UNTIL SECOND STAGE, HE IMPLIED THAT HONG KONG

WOULD BE IN THIS LATTER CATEGORY.

3.

HE CONFIRMED THAT INTRODUCTION OF THE SCHEME WOULD BE LATER THAN JULY MENTIONED 1 AUGUST. HE THOUGHT THAT THE SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS WOULD BE WORKED OUT IN THE AUTUMN AND THAT SECOND STAGE BENIFICIARIES WOULD JOIN THE SCHEME FROM 1 APRIL TO COINCIDE WITH START OF JAPANESE FINANCIAL YEAR.

4.

FCO PLEASE COPY TO KEMMIS D T I.

MASON

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

TPD

HKD

FED

DTGD

CONFIDENTIAL

RECEIVED I REGISTRY No. BY

16 JUN 1971

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