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HKK 10/9
DRAFT
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
SECRET
To:-
CP Haddon/Cave Esq Financial/Secretary
HONG KONG
Type 1 +
From KM Wilford
RRK
Telephone No. & Eft.
23.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
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..In Confidence
Flag B
Blind Copy:
M Scholar Esq
TREASURY
O D Morgan Esq
MOD
Finance Dept
Defence Dept
Flag C
1.
Department
The Snake Jance and Border Winks.
I am sorry to have to bother you with a problem
in connection with the payment for the extra services
provided by HM Forces during the 1967 disturbances.
We have exchanged letters with Jeaffreson about
this, resting (except for correspondence clarifying
a minor point) with his letter SCR 26/64 II dated
12 November 1971.
2.
As we understand the position, some reimbursement
has been made by the Hong Kong Government to the
Services but there remain two outstanding items,
totalling £194,031, on which it has not been
possible to reach agreement.
THE SNAKE FENCE
3. The larger of the two is the border (Snake)
fence for which the military authorities are claiming
reimbursement of £173,340. This is for the cost of
the materials supplied for the construction of the
fence (including the cost of transport from Singapore).
4. We have it on record here that when John
Cowperthwaite called at the Office in September 1968
he told Bunny Carter that, with the exception of
minor items, he thought that Hong Kong could accept all the charges raised by the military authorities,
including the charge for the fence (See Carter's
letter to Cowperthwaite of 26 March 1969.) But in
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