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..In Confidence
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
To Scholar TJ Brack Esq
Treasury
Type 1 +
From
Mr Gammon
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Ministry of Defence
CC
JE Edwards Esq Treasury
S Stephenson Esq Finance Dept FCO
Miss P. Kelly AW Gaminara Esq Hong Kong, Dept
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FCO
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THE BUILDING OF THE SNAKE FENCE IN HONG KONG
1.
May we seek your advice on a matter which
we have been discussing since 1967, first with the
Commonwealth Office and later with the FCO. We
have not raised this earlier because both we and
the FCO thought it advisable to settle the issue
of the defence contribution first.
2.
As you will recall, the Service Departments
provided assistance to the Hong Kong Government
in connection with the communist-inspired disturbances
which occurred in the Colony during 1967. The
assistance consisted of a variety of measures
reinforcements, the loan of specialist troops,
additional transport, stores, works services and
so on and I am pleased to say that after
prolonged discussions between our Command Secretary
in Hong Kong and the Colony's authorities, with
two exceptions all these matters have been
satisfactorily disposed of and the appropriate
payment has been made by the Hong Kong Government
to defence votes.
3. The two exceptions, however, are not
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inconsiderable.
They consist of:
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