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your letter to Carter of 9 April 1969 you said that
the fence was a separate issue and in his letter of
2 October 1970 Jeaffreson said - "we consider the
fence to be a matter of external rather than
internal security and thus a proper charge on HM
Government" and went on to ask us to approach
the Treasury on your behalf.
Since by that time
we were well into the negotiations over the defence
it seemed
contribution we decided that it would be wiser from
everyone's point of view not to run the risk of
complicating those already difficult negotiations
by introducing this extraneous factors/roblem.
WORK ON BORDER POSTS (OPERATION "HIGHLAND BONNET")
5. The other outstanding item involves a sum of
£20,691 spent by the Services on stores required
for refurbishing certain border posts in connection
with the 1967 disturbances. This has been the subject
of correspondence between Hong Kong and ourselves. eating with
Michael toured
Michael
onding in Jeaffreson's letter to me of 5 February
1971. PROPOSALS
6.
Since the beginning of this year we have had
considerable inter-epartmental discussions in an
attempt to resolve these outstanding issues.
After
the fullest consultation in Whitehall therefore I we should now like to propose the following solution.
7. As to the Snake Fence, neither the Hong Kong
Government nor the MOD disputed that the fence was
built on the instructions of the Governor in order
to stop land incursions of all kinds into the
Colony, and that at the time of its building such
/incursions
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