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your letter to Carter of 9 April 1969 you said that

the fence was a separate issue and in his letter of

2 October 1970 Jeaffreson said - "we consider the

fence to be a matter of external rather than

internal security and thus a proper charge on HM

Government" and went on to ask us to approach

the Treasury on your behalf.

Since by that time

we were well into the negotiations over the defence

it seemed

contribution we decided that it would be wiser from

everyone's point of view not to run the risk of

complicating those already difficult negotiations

by introducing this extraneous factors/roblem.

WORK ON BORDER POSTS (OPERATION "HIGHLAND BONNET")

5. The other outstanding item involves a sum of

£20,691 spent by the Services on stores required

for refurbishing certain border posts in connection

with the 1967 disturbances. This has been the subject

of correspondence between Hong Kong and ourselves. eating with

Michael toured

Michael

onding in Jeaffreson's letter to me of 5 February

1971. PROPOSALS

6.

Since the beginning of this year we have had

considerable inter-epartmental discussions in an

attempt to resolve these outstanding issues.

After

the fullest consultation in Whitehall therefore I we should now like to propose the following solution.

7. As to the Snake Fence, neither the Hong Kong

Government nor the MOD disputed that the fence was

built on the instructions of the Governor in order

to stop land incursions of all kinds into the

Colony, and that at the time of its building such

/incursions

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