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would however limit the choice of possible sites for ranges we might wish to build in the future. It might also limit or even exclude the use of a future weapon system which might otherwise have fitted the existing range.
In addition to the training implications, which are in any case serious, we would wish to firmly reject the proposal on the grounds that it would create a dangerous precedent for the future of our only field firing area which is already under pressure from illegal encroachment.
4. The Civil Secretary here is writing to DS6 with full details of the Hong Kong Government's proposals and our fuller comments and observations on them.
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