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No. HKK 10/9
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...In Confidence
To:-
C P Haddon-Cave Esq Financial Secretary HONG KONG
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12 Telephone No. & Ext.
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1. I am sorry to have to bother you with a
problem in connection with the payment for the
extra services provided by HM Forces during the
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2. As we understand the position, some $95,000*
ment has beer has been reimbursed by the Hong Kong Government to
the Services but there remain two outstanding items,
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totalling £194,031, on which it has not been possible
to reach agreement.
THE SNAKE FENCE
3. The larger of the two is the border (Snake)
fence for which the military authorities are claiming
reimbursement of £173,340. This is for the cost of
imals
the stores supplied for the construction of the
fence (including the cost of transport from Singapore).
4. We have it on record here that when John
Cowperthwaite called at the Office 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
(including the charge for the fence). (See Carter's
But in letter to Cowperthwaite of 26 March 1969).
your letter to Carter of April 1969 you said that
the fence was a separate issue and in his letter of
/2 October 1970
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