Secret
by the end of 1971.
3.
In circumstances we would prefer you not to
make any public statement before your departure..
We should however be grateful for advice whether it
will
weed be necessary in due course to make public state-
ment in Hong Kong related specifically to decision
not to increase the army garrison by an extra
battalion, or whether it would be sufficient to say
have something along the lines of the formula you suggested
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4.
No public announcement about size)
ze) Hong Kong will
garrison would be made here without four days advance
notice being given you, as you have requested.
E. 0. Laird
Hong Kong Department
16 October, 1970.
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