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INFO ROUTINE BTS HONG KONG, GOVERNOR HONG KONG, DOT (CRE4), FCO (FED).
/ MY CREDA 100: HONG KONG POWER STATION.
1. THE CHINESE ATTITUDE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF A COAL FOR EQUIPMENT DEAL IS MYSTIFYING. IT SEEMED CLEAR FROM MY INTERVIEW ON 6 APRIL WITH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE (MY TELEGRAM 201 TO FCO) THAT EITHER THE CHINESE HAD NOT TAKEN THEIR THINKING VERY FAR OR, LESS LIKELY, WERE NOT PREPARED TO REVEAL THEIR HAND AT THAT STAGE.
2. ON 24 APRIL I LUNCHED THE DIRECTOR OF THIRD DEPARTMENT IN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE WHO RAISED THE SUBJECT IN THE MOST WOOLLY MANNER POSSIBLE AND. MADE NO RESPONSE WHEN I SAID THAT WE WOULD BE PREPARED TO LISTEN TO ANY THOUGHTS THEY HAD ON THE SUBJECT OF A LINK. HE DID HOWEVER IN HIS OPAQUE REFERENCE TO THE SUBJECT USE THE PHRASE COMPENSATION DEAL.
3. THEN, ON 6 MAY, SUNG CHIH-KUANG (FORMER AMBASSADOR IN LONDON AND NOW ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER) SAID SOME VERY ODO THINGS WHEN HE WAS LUNCHING INFORMALLY WITH ME AND I REFERRED TO THE PROPOSED VISIT OF SIR LAWRENCE KADOORIE. SUNG SAID THAT A DEAL HAD BEEN PROPOSED WHEREBY A BRITISH COMPANY WOULD BUILD A POWER STATION IN KWANGTUNG PROVINCE AND SUPPLY ELECTRICITY TO HẠNG KONG I SAID THAT THIS WAS NEWS TO ME BUT I THOUGHT THAT SIR LAWRENCE HAD SPOKEN IN GENERAL TERMS TO VARIOUS PEOPLE ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A CANTON/HONG KONG GRID. ! SAID THAT WHAT! WAS INTERESTED IN REGARDING HIS VISIT WAS THE POSSIBILITY OF THE
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