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Hong Kong
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Draft Telegram to:--
Governor Hong
Kong
No. 7!!..
7ll
(Date) 23/9
And to:
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GOVERNOR HONG KONG
(date)
239 repeated for information to
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As for Hong Kong tel. No. 528
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Your telegrams Nos 668 and 694
DEFENCE CONTRIBUTTON
1. This is most encouraging news and we can
agree to the proposed change in base date from
April 1970 to April 1971 for the review of the
agreement if the cost of capital works were to go
up or down by 50 per cent or more. Capital
works would of course be charged against pounds
17 million at actual cost at time of purchase
or construction.
2. Your paragraph & Grateful if you w11-
telegraph immediately in the event that opposition
ely
to the arrangement seems likely to grow to a
point where possibility of your having to use
official majority becomes a live issue. official majority
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