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assistance over another of Hong Kong's
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international problems - refugees. This will make
it difficult enough for the Governor to maintain
his present defence contribution, and the
Governor's proposals, which you summarise in
paragraph 8 of your minute, were designed to enable
him to persuade the Council to maintain this and
to bear some of the cost of the extra units. If
you consider that it is a bad bargain for the War
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Office to release their holdings in the dockyad
(the title to some of which seems very obscure) it
would of course not make the Governor of Hong Kong's
task any easier, but I am sure that he would do his
best, and with a fair chance of success, to maintain
the defence contribution at £1 million provided
H.M.G. bore the cost of the artillery units.
minute
I am sending copies of this to members
of the Defence Committee.
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