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Registry No.
DEPARTMENT
HKK 10/9
* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s).........
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
PRIORITY MARKINGS
(Date).
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted
Unclassified
Flash Immediate Priority
Despatched
Routine
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Clair Code
Cypher
Draft Telegram to:--- The Governor Hong Kong
No.
(Date)
And to:-
[Security classification"
-if any
[ Privacy marking
-if any
[Codeword-if any]
...SECRET..
]
Addressed to THE GOVERNOR HONG KONG
telegram ...............
And to
repeated for information/to
(date)
21 of Repeat to:-
22
Saving to............
YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 85 AND MY TELEGRAM NO. 129
Following from Mons on
DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION
Saving to:-
Distribution:-
Files
Copies to:-
H.K.D. F.E.D.
Defence Dept.
1.
Your paragraphs 8 and 11.
There is of course
mil
a danger that unofficial members will regard the
figure of £8.5 million as a maximum contribution
capable of downward negotiation.
case.
This is not the
Ministerial approval for this figure was
Although
secured on the clear premise that this figure wee both
the maximum that you could hope to negotiate locally, was at the same köömn and the minimum that would be acceptable to HMG.
It is therefore important that when you disclose the contents of our telegram No. 113 you make it clear
that HMG had hoped for a substantially larger
contribution, particularly having regard to the
Private Secretary healthy state of the
P/S to P.U.S.
Sir L. Monson
Sir S. Tomlinson
(Continued
overleaf)
Colony's finances; but that
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