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They followed this up a week later with furthe figives showing the broad functional breakd an of the estimated capital costs. They also

said that any Governor might require about individual

detailed information which the

could best. be provided locally by project could best. be

military authorities in Hong Kong. rent both lot of figures

Frag to

10 April and

16

from keine.

on

to the

We

the

Governor

have heard nothing further

Frag

5. The revised figures supplied by M.O. D.

showed very -previous figures - sufficient to arouse

substantial increases over

the

the

suspicions of the Treasury who considered

it essential that we

Governor (which

Loc

should inform the

did) when passing. the

revived figures

on to him that they might well be subject to amendment.

6. It is quite possible that

these large

have caused the Governor &

take a long

uncreases

his advisers to

close look at them. After all,

if the Governor is to set the ball rolling, in

these preliminaries to the negotiations, by

naming a figure for

Hong Kong contribution Над Кад

which will have to be negotiated with his

сбытать,

unofficial advisers,

it is hardly surprising

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