CONFIDEN: IL
7 September, 1967.
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I enclose a copy of a letter which Comperthwaite, the Financial Secretary in Hong Kong, has written to Arthur Galsworthy about responsibility for meeting the cost of special expenditures arising out of the present situation. As you know, Hong Kong has already raised this in the specific context of the border fence (Hong Kong telegram No. 1320 refers).
I would be very grateful for your views. Be have very little information about the basis on which military expenditure incurred in aid of the civil power is char、ed to Colonial Governments but our understanding is that, while you do not make any charge for services of personnel or use of vehicles, you do normally raise a charge for any special expenditure incurred, e.g. petrol or other stores consumed.
Whatever the answer may be on the hospitalization point, I think it might be useful to talk to Cowperthwaite about the border fence. Could you manage 14 September?
(H.P. Hall)
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F. COOPER, ES., C.M.C.
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