HK 6/548/3
Confidential
8 October, 1970.
Many thanks for your letter of 12 September. I fully agree we should keep in touch; we here already have your needs in mind but we shall try in future to send you a regular flow of material.
You mentioned in particular the matter of the new Hong Kong defence contribution. I assure you that we have not lost sight of the importance of sending you a full brief on this subject as soon as we are in a position to do so. At the moment, however, we are only at the stage of preliminary exchanges with the Governor, and it will be many weeks, if not months, before anything concrete emerges. So far nothing at all has been said by the Governor to any of his unofficial advisers.
Nearer the time of the public announcement, there will no doubt be the usual press speculation and it will be necessary to agree beforehand with the Governor and his official advisers the lines of any reply to be returned to any press enquiries which may be addressed to you on the subject.
(12)
(E. 0. Laird)
J. K. Blackwell, Esq., CBE.,
Senior British Trade Commissioner,
(PO Box 528),
7th Floor,
Shell House,
Queen's Road Central,
HONG KONG,
Confidential
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