CO_968_583_DEFENCE_OF_HONG_KONG_1957_1959 — Page 254

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assistance over another of Hong Kong's

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international problems - refugees. This will make

it difficult enough for the Governor to maintain

his present defence contribution, and the

Governor's proposals, which you summarise in

paragraph 8 of your minute, were designed to enable

him to persuade the Council to maintain this and

to bear some of the cost of the extra units. If

you consider that it is a bad bargain for the War

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Office to release their holdings in the dockyad

(the title to some of which seems very obscure) it

would of course not make the Governor of Hong Kong's

task any easier, but I am sure that he would do his

best, and with a fair chance of success, to maintain

the defence contribution at £1 million provided

H.M.G. bore the cost of the artillery units.

minute

I am sending copies of this to members

of the Defence Committee.

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