BRITAIN MAY SEND TOKEN FORCE
(11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 23. / The British Government is likely to offer additional aid. including ground troops in the Korean. war, the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune said today. Both newspapers carried stories from London correspondents quoting observers as saying that Britain probably will send about 2000 men. The Herald Tribune said the troops might include a strengthened tank regiment at present stationed in Hong Kong. The British contribution will be only a token force because London and Washington jtave agreed that the flank covered by the British at Hong Kong and Malaya must not be exposed to Communist attack.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23313, 24 July 1950, Page 5
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