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The Anglo-Italian consortium have put forward in Hong Kong
a bid which Mr Haddon-Cave said that he regarded as acceptable
for further negotiation in competition with the Japanese
(Hong Kong telno. CREDA 147). Subsequently, however, the Governor
sent a message to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
(Hong Kong telno. 1397) suggesting that further improvements were
still necessary if Executive Council was to agree to validate
the Anglo-Italian bid.
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The DTI have done their best and Mr Walker has now sent
another message to the Governor to meet his deadline of 7 December.
Hopefully, this will be enough. But we have not been able to
promise the improvement in the escalation clause for which the
Governor asks.
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The Governor does not know of the Prime Minister's
directive that it was essential that we should win this contract
Prime Minister's minute of 26 September). The danger in telling
him is that he might conclude that the Hong Kong Government can
squeeze the Anglo-Italian consortium beyond what is commercially
prudent. But he should also realise that the DTI are unwilling
to do this and that in the last resort the Prime Minister's
directive is not without relevance to the British Government of
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