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DEPARTMEN Hong Kong
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted
Unclassified
PRIORITY MARKINGS
Flash Immediate Priority
Routine
}
As
agored & Moh
addressee(s)
(Date)....
Despatched
with reasury,
Ang
38/2/20
기
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Clair. Code Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
Governor Hong
Kong
[Security classification]
-if any
SECRET
[
Privacy marking -if any
]
[Codeword—if any]..
Addressed to
telegram ................
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
..(date)
No.
And to
(Date)
And to:-
Repeat to:-
Saving to:-
A
Distribution:-- Files, HKD, FED DEFENCE D, FPAD A&TD, CCD, PS, PS/PUS,
Sir L Monson Sir S Tomlinson Gopiexxarx
Mr Bottomley Mr Wilford Mr D A Scott Mr Rose
/Copies to
repeated for information to
Saving to..
Your telegram No. 367.
DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION
1.
Ministers have now considered this. Against
the background of rising defence costs for HMG
in Hong Kong [and
nd the view that the Colony should
contribute no smaller proportion of its revenue
than previously, they were unwilling to accept the
proposals which you put forward during your visit
here in June
2
This would go
;。/son
er in an attempt to go some way towards
meeting the views of the Unofficial Members of your
Executive Council HMG would be prepared to accept
an arrangement which would produce an average
annual contribution of £8 million over a period
of 5 years. For example, if the figure for
/maintenance
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