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FM HONG KONG 020350Z JUN 79
TO PRIORITY F C O
TELEGRAM NUMBER 714 OF 2 JUNE
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INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, PRIORITY MANILA.
N/C MY TELNO 564: CHINA/PHILIPPINES AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT.
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1. ACCORDING TO THIS MORNING'S SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WHICH
CARRIED AN ASSOCIATED PRESS DESPATCH FROM MANILA DATED 1 JUNE,
PHILIPPINE AIRLINES WILL BEGIN TWICE A WEEK SERVICE TO CHINA ON
JULY 21.
2. ENRIQUE SANTOS OF PAL WAS QUOTED TO HAVE SAID THAT THE SERVICE
TO PEKING VIA GUANGZHOU AND BACK WILL USE THE AIRLINES' EIGHT DC 8'S AND PROBABLY TWO B727'S JUST LEASED FROM HUGHES AIRWEST, A
SAN FRANCISCO BASED AIRLINE. HE ALSO SAID THAT CAAC WOULD BEGIN
OPERATING TO MANILA QUOTE AT A MUCH LATER DATE UNQUOTE.
3. THE DESPATCH MENTIONED THAT AN ASA WOULD BE SIGNED THIS MONTH
BY MRS MARCOS IN PEKING.
MACLEHOSE
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LEGAL ADVISERS
MR BUTLER
MR CORTAZZI
MR MURRAY
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HONG KONG GOVT OFFICE, LONDON
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