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FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

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Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret. Secret.

Confidential. Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

DRAFT

Brief.

To:-

Sir D. Watson.

Type 1 +

(Vin't of Sor Murray MacLehore 5-9 Sept, 1972)

From

Mr Land

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

HKIED

9

ALD TO HONG KONG.

1. Britain at present supplies hardly any aid to Hong Kong The is became the was drink deg.der the Colony and-worthy

This especially the at present, whene number

org mejor deusion

in the field

textiler

and Sterling, have

achurch

in view of thei in new g

resources.

They as hover,

lange financial Committed in praple to pumiding ₤400,000 for

Technical Institution of this amount

ал

₤100,000 has

ken earmarked for the Morrison Hill Jechnical

Institute.

2.

understanding

During the Seectory 9 States visit, an undert was reached about and. The former has pointed out, that whilst H.-K- might not have an Economical I for aid, it does have a political need for ontwand visible signe If a special & beneficial relationship

of

need

with the

2.

ел

it

V-K-↑ Carefully-selected aid en comparatively small amounts could meet this need.

Accndingly, the Gonoor locked into the possibilities, and

andreach affected they has now sent us proposals for aid, namely

(885363) Dd. 896639 1,000м 8/71 St.S.

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