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Annex Alo Note No.
VISIT OF DEPUTY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE
(SIR LESLIE MONSON)
TO HONG KONG, OCTOBER, 1969
DEFENCE MATTERS
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SECTION 5(1) OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN CLOSED UNDER THIS IS A COPY
ACT 1958 UNTIL
2010
Hong Kong could not be defended against a
determined Chinese attack
There are no plans for the rein-
forcement of Hong Kong against external aggression and
the external role of the garrison is to offer such
resistance as may be appropriate in the circumstances
at the time. Although there is no agreement with the
United States about coming to the defence of Hong Kong,
the U.S. Government have been given an assurance that
it is our intention to resist aggression. Local
opinion, while probably under no illusion about the
ability of the present garrison to resist for long,
regards the existence of British troops deployed to
guard the frontier as an assurance of our intention to bantam our position in
defendy
the Colony it is probably assumed locally that
6.
in any general hostilities in the area the Seventh
Fleet would, if necessary, intervene.
2.
An overt attack by the Chinese is less likely than
Our ability
an attempt to get the Colony by subversion.
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