TNAG-0179-FCO40-215-Strength-of-Hong-Kong-Garrison-1970 — Page 3

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SUNDAY EXPRESS

Cutting dated

-4 JAN 1970 Gurkhas for

long Hong

HONGKONG, Saturday.-Roy Hattersley, Minister of Defence for Administration, arrived here last night from Singapore

A services spokesman said his Far East tour was concerned with the Gurkha forces after the withdrawal of British troops from Malaysia and

Singapore. "They will be

reduced from 14,000 to 6,000 after 1971 and stationed in the New Territories in Hongkong,”

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