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DRAFT TELEGRAM TO DIRECTOR OF MARINE, HONG KONG
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STANDEN, Oil Marine Divani
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Thank you for your letter of 2 May, addressed to Archer,
with copy of paper circulated to Hong Kong shipowners.
I am replying in Archer's absence in USA.
We hope that, following your discussions with shipowners
you will be in a position to let us know their reactions
as far as likely tonnage registration is concerned to a
change on lines of proposals in paragraph 2 plus the
possible setting of exams in Chinese, quite distinctly
from possible reactions to the much wider and not yet
agreed concessions referred to in paragraph 3.
We are just a little concerned lest what we see as a
sharp distinction between status of proposals in para 2
on one hand and possibilities in para 3 might not be
readily discernable as such by shipowners, leading to
tonnage offer geared to whole document, which would not
be very helpful.
Paragraph 3(b)
We have following observations on document.
reference is made to Taiwanese masters. I must emphasise
that it is highly unlikely that we could agree to any
proposal for other than British masters. Paragraph 3(c)
refers to this as remote possibility and we see great
difficulty. Would be glad to know if you think this
proposal could be made to work in practice.
It may be helpful to you to have certain comments made by
various UK interests during our continuing consultations.
Relevant points are as follows.
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