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16/10.3
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Draft Telegram to:—
THONG KONGE
105.
No.
(Date)16.10
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HKD
DEFENCE
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C.E. Johnson DS 6, MOD
141020 2014 16.1545-2
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HONG KONG
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161500 Z
Your telegram No.719: Hong Kong Garrison.
Final decision will not be taken by Ministers
until Monday. Defence White Paper, which will be
published on 28 October will state inter alia that
the Government have decided that the Brigade of Gurkhas
should be retained after 1971 on a basis of either 4 or
5 battalions, and that one of these battalions will be
stationed in the United Kingdom No referance will
be made to the decision not to increase the Army
garrison in Hong Kong by an extra infantry battalion
at the end of 1971.
2.
It has not yet been decided whether public announce
ment about future size of Hong Kong Garrison will be
necessary, as no reference was made in the 1968
Supplementary White Paper to the specific increases in
the Hong Kong garrison that would be necessary as a
result of the previous Government's decision to
withdraw British forces from Malaysia and Singapore
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