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H" Lig. En

said that

You said

you

Reference.

4/11

would like to study the Letters

at (57) a 57 before mersday's meeting on the defence contribution.

The carlier papers

this subject are attacked

to the defence contribution file with Siv L. Monson. We told the M. 0. B. in 1968 that we agreed

that the cast of the frontier fence (£173, 340) thowed

to settle with the local

not be a charge on their votes. We asked Hang Kong eighteen Military authorities as

months ago

many

as they

could of the

itemos of expense

incured by the

services during

or

a result of

the 1967

disturbances;

and

We said we

To let us know the outcomes

would

then approach

the Treasury

with a

to asking varte !

(hem

to pay for

the fence,

view

at any

The coke seems laughable in present

Circumstances,

3.

It might be as well

to mention the se

outstanding items at Daweday's meeting,

although

anywhere.

I do not

think it would get us

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