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TO IMMEDIATE PEKING TELNO.BTC 36 OF 20 MAY 78,

INFO D.O.T (CRE4), D.0.1 (IC2), F.C.O.

YOUR TELNO.34 OF 9 MAY (NOT REPEATED TO ALL) : COAL FOR POWER STATION.

1. YOU SHOULD KNOW, FIRST OF ALL, THAT ARRANGEMENTS. HAVE APPARENTLY BEEN MADE FOR SIR LAWRENCE AND LADY KADOORIE TO COLLECT THEIR VISAS IN SWITZERLAND AND TO FLY DIRECT FROM GENEVA TO PEKING ON 21 MAY BY SWISSAIR FLIGHT 316. ARRANGEMENTS ARE ALSO IN HAND, I AM TOLD, FOR SIR LAWRENCE TO MEET MR M.L. LAI, DESCRIBED AS HEAD OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS IN PEKING WHO IN TURN WILL INTRODUCE HIM TO THE COAL PEOPLE'', PRESUMABLY A REFERENCE TO THE METALS AND MINERALS IMPORT AND EXPORT CORPORATION. ALL OF THIS HAS RESULTED FROM A MESSAGE FROM THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF HSINHUA NEWS AGENCY THAT ADVICE HAD COME FROM CHINA AGREEING TO THE KADOORIE'S VISIT DURING THE MIDDLE-LATER PART OF MAY TO VISIT CHINA AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE, TO PEKING, CHUNGKING AND THEN BY SHIP THROUGH THE YANGTSE GORGES TO WUHAN (HANKOW AND WUCHANG)'' COVERING APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS AND WITH ENTRY BY PLANE FROM GENEVA.

2. KESCO PREFER THAT THE VISIT OF THEIR SPECIALIST TEAM FOR DISCUSSIONS AT WORKING LEVEL TAKE PLACE AFTER SIR LAWRENCE HAS HAD A CHANCE TO PAVE THE WAY AND THEY SUGGEST THE END OF THE MONTH OR EARLY JUNE. WOULD CHINA NATIONAL METALS AND MINERALS IMPORT AND EXPORT CORPORATION BE PREPARED TO

RECEIVE THEM THEN ?

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