TNAG-0508-FCO40-573-Construction-of-underground-railway-system-in-Hong-Kong-1974 — Page 115

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1 MR BRYANT

2 MR FARRY

CONFIDENTIAL

Reference....

cc Mr Cotterill ECGD

Miss Welch CRE2 Mr Stuart FCO

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HONG KONG MASS TRANSIT

Please see the attached telegram from Tokyo reporting what happened when the GEC team talked to Mitsubishi. Mr Stuart in the FCO tells me there is a further telegram from Mr Aston the sense of which is to strengthen his suspicion that the Japanese may be trying to put themselves in a position where they can use the British firms as a front in some re-negotiation with the Hong Kong Government.

I saw Mr Hugo Kindersley of Lazards on Friday evening. He was aware of the general drift of what had happened in Tokyo.

in Tokyo. I sowed in his ear the thought that the Japanese might be playing a fairly devious game. We shall need to have sorted out our minds by the time we lunch with Mr Codd on 25 March. Mr Stuart has promised a written contribution from the FCO.

DH

D ROYCE OFP

V/207 ext 5067 19 March 1974