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Registry No. HKK 10/9
DEPARTMENT
Hong Kong
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
PRIORITY MARKINGS
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Draft Telegram to:- Governor, Hong
No. 6924
(Date) (77%
And to:-
Repeat to:-
Saving to:-
Distribution:-
Kong
As for Hong Kong telegram No 549
Copies to:-
As for Hong Kong telegram No 549
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Addressed to
telegram ................
And to
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
(date)
repeated for information to
Saving to.
Your telegrams Nos 528 and 549.
DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION
1.
C
Decision conveyed to you in FCO telegram No
CABINET decisions
A
553 was taken by Ministers collectivély at the
highest vel and you can rest assured that when
TAKING IT, MINISTERS
they trok it they had before them full details
of your own proposals.
2. The arguments in paragraphs 5 and 6 of your
telegram No 528 have been fully considered but
the fact remains that under your proposals HMG
would receive £3.5 million less during period
1971/2 to 1975/6 than under the terms set out
in paragraph 2 of FCO telegram No 553.
Moreover,
in order to take account of rising costs it would
be reasonable to expect, over a 7 year period, a
greater total increase than £1 million over the
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