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Registry
No.
HKK.
10/5
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential,
Restricted- Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
D G Jeaffres on Esq
Deputy Financial Secretary,
Colonial Secretariat HONG KONG
Type 1 +
From
E O Laird
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong
In Confidence
2
Fay F. 38 on
HWB 10/16.
H' Laid
Your
Prefers.
AWE
Many
Thank you for your letter No. SCR 26/6411 of
about
5 February on the subject of payment for services.
provided by HM Forces in connection with the 1967
ided
disturbances.
2.
We are still in correspondence with the Ministry
of Defence over the "Highland Bonnet" issue. However,
in the course of that correspondence the Ministry of
Defence have raised one other small item of £118 which,
they say, it has been impossible to settle locally.
The item is in respect of additional allowances which
were paid to Hong Kong Other Ranks and which were
intended to cover the extra cost of food etc, when the
personnel in question were detained at their place of
duty overnight. The item was included in the
enclosures to Carter's letter to Cowperthwaite of
16 July 1968.
3. We understand from the Ministry of Defence that the
item was in fact submitted at some stage to your
·2% 6/ Finance Committee but was rejected by them. This is
menuté of 26/2
the only information we have on the matter and we do
not know the grounds on which it was rejected. We have
Came
told the Ministry of Defence that we would be taking
the matter up with you and I shall be grateful if you
will let me know the circumstances of the claim and the
grounds on which it was rejected.
CONFIDENTIAL
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