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FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF LETTER DATED 23 DECEMBER TO LORD

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DEAR ARNOLD,

PROPOSED NUCLEAR POWER STATION FOR GUANGDONG PROVINCE

THIS LETTER IS WRITTEN IN ORDER TO BRING YOU UP-TO-DATE AS TO THE LATEST POSITION REGARDING THE PROPOSED NUCLEAR POWER STATION

FOR GUANGDONG PROVINCE.

LAST WEEK-END, MR. STONES ATTENDED A MEETING IN CANTON AT WHICH HE WAS TOLD THERE WAS NOW A LIKELIHOOD OF THIS GOING AHEAD.

FOLLOWING THIS MEETING AND OUR ADVISING BOTH BOB DAVIDSON AND MR. MANZIE OF WHAT HAD TAKEN PLACE, YOUR PEOPLE TELEXED MR. CHEN GANG INVITING THE CHINESE TO SEND A DELEGATION TO ENGLAND TO SATISFY THEMSELVES AS TO SUITABILITY OF UTILISING GEC TURBINES IN

THIS PROJECT.

SUFFICE TO SAY THAT THE TURBINES GEC ARE OFFERING ARE REGARDED BY THE CHINESE SOMEWHAT AS PROTOTYPES, AND THAT THEY ARE LOOKING TO CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO. LTD., FOR ADVICE AND GUIDANCE.

IT IS AT THEIR INSISTENCE MR. STONES WILL BE ACCOMPANYING THE DELEGATION.

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