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...In Confidence
SECRET
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
His Excellency,
Sir David Trench,GCMG, MC
Government House,
HONG KONG.
Type 1 +
From
Sir L. Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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I owe you a reply to your helpful letter of
7 July about the defence contribution.
ам
seized of the cogement why
We in the FCO fully agbee that £8 million
per annum is the maximum you could hope to secure
on the terms you have suggested. We have arranged
to discuss your proposals with the Ministry of
Defence and other departments concerned at a
meeting on 4 September (warning them that you are
by no means at all sure that you can get such a
large increase accepted locally) and I shall write
thereafter. to you again next week.
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