CO_968_583_DEFENCE_OF_HONG_KONG_1957_1959 — Page 110

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Page 110ROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

TO HONG KONG (Sir R. Black)

Simplex

DEF. 75/51/02

Sent 9th September, 1958.

19.30 hours.

IMMEDIATE

TOP SECRET No.867

Addressed to Governor Hong Kong

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Singapore Personal No.134

" Commissioner General for the U.K.

in S.E.A. No. 102 (Governor Singapore please

" Peking.

pass) IMMEDIATE

My savingrams Nos.1168 of 4th July and 1402 of

15th August.

Garrison.

Fifth Field Regiment Royal Artillery is due to leave United Kingdom 12th September. In view of present tension in Far East it is not (repeat not) now intended to make even routine press announcement. In answer to press enquiries following brief statement of facts will be drawn on here.

2.

Begins.

Fifth Field Regiment Royal Artillery, which leaves the United Kingdom on 12th September on the EMPIRE FOWEY for Hong Kong, forms part of our permanent garrison in the Far East, and its move is a routine one, which has been planned for several months.

Ends.

Suggest matter should be handled similarly in

Hong Kong and Singapore.

(Cost of telegram £14 4s.2d.)

(Copies sent to Foreign Office for

repetition to Peking.)

Distribution: Top secret automatic

Mr. Campbell

Mr. Fairclough

Mr. O. H. Morris

Mr.

Foreign Office

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Chiefs of Staff Secretariat Ministry of Defence

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Mr. R. W. J. Hooper Colonel A. F. McGill

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