fourteen months in fighting against the withdrawal of
individual units, and each one of these has been
opposed by Sir Alexander Grantham as "reducing the
garrison to inadequate levels or a phrase of that
kind.
4.
In addition to the above land and air forces,
B.D.C.C. (F.E.) endorsed the C.B.F's requirement under
2
(c) above for naval forces. They were to destroyers
or frigates, 10 seaward defence motor launches, 11
motor minesweepers, whilst other naval forces would,
in order to protect evacuation, have to be within 3,
at the an Nueak
hostilities
4 or 21 days' steaming
5
These proposals were never considered as such
by the Chiefs of Staff because the Defence Committee
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when they
decision
(the thing-horng gawiron in Jan Feb 1957 became seized of the problem in January and in
reconsidered then Aurious
to with chowed the Tel squadion
& February 1957, in connection with the worldwide
regiment deployment of forees made possible in accordinoo al' tu saime
with the long-term Defence Review. In this long-
cos.
term Defence Review the Chiefs of Staff assessed
minimum
Kian cos
well Can-
the
garrison necessary for the purpose of
maintaining law and order, that is (a) above only,
arendured
ducking them have Теми Дерена Review.
as six major units. The fact that the R.A.F.
squadron went out under the long-term Defence Review,
es did also the forces required for evacuation. conclusions with boothy based themselves grounds Laccepted by the Chiefs of Staff/on the basis that the
tton
7
nuclear deterrent provided a guarantee against Chinese
aggression, and that a calculated risk had to be taken
that an emergency demanding evacuation would not arise.
6.
The garrison in Hong Kong is now at seven major
units, the addition to the long-term garrison of four
infantry battalions, an armoured regiment and a Royal
Artillery field regiment, being provided by an extra
field régiment of Royal Artillery, which is however due
In the meantime we have lost the
to 80pin January 1858.
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(306) den 75/51/02
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bout an additional
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was conceded.
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