SECRET PERSONAT
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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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..In Confidence
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
CP Haddon-Cave Esq
Financial Secretary HONG KONG
Type 1 +
From
Mr Laird Telephone No. & Ext.
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1.
Now that the issue of the defence contribution
has been dealt with) I am writing to you about the
problem of
certain outstanding matters relating to payment for the)
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extra services provided by HM Forces during the We have exchanged letins M 1967 disturbances. Jeaffreson letter to me
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number SCR 26/64 of 2 October 1970 (with subsequent
correspondence) refers.
2. As we understand the position here, some
£95,000 has now been reimbursed by the Hong Kong Suvices
Government to the military authorities and there
remain three outstanding items, totalling £194,149,
on which it has not been possible to reách
agreement.
Z By far the largest item is the border fence
in respect of which the military authorities are
Thin in
claiming reimbursement of £173,340 for the cost of the
stores ineluding the cost of their transport from
The
Singapore). supplied for ite construction
onof
We have it on record here that when
that
called at the office
the Jenny
John Cowperthwaite visited us in September 1968 he
told Bunny Carter that, with the exception of minor
items, he thought that Hong Kong could accept all
the charges raised by the military authorities (
the charg
including that for the fence). (See Bunny Carter's
Computtweit.
letter to him of 26 March 1969). But in your letter
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