TO BE RETURNED TO THE SECRETARY, JOINT PLANNING STAFF
JP(57)165(A)(Preliminary Draft)
January 1958
CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE
JOINT PLANNING STAFF
SPECIALLY RESTRICTED CIRCULATION
MILITARY MEASURES TO MEET THE THREAT TO HONG KONG FROM COMMUNIST CHINA
Draft Note by the Director of Plans
In anticipation of instructions we have examined a lettert
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Kong from Communist China and possible pub/American discussion
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We have also taken into
- on measures to deal with the threat.
account in our examination the opinions of the British Defence Co-ordination Committee (Far East) expressed in a paper entitled "Combined UK/US Planning for the Defence of Hong Kong". have consulted the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office.
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In September 1956 informal staff talks took place between Commander British Forces, Hong Kong and CINCPAC, with a view to examining the problem of the defence of Hong Kong against overt Chinese aggression in conditions short of global war up to 1960. At these staff farles a broas concept of operations was agreed o The Chiefs of Staft whits having certain reservation on this concept, accepted These staff talks resulted in agreement on the following broad concept of operations, upon which plans for the possible
defence of Hong Kong might be based:-
(a)
Phase I
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Mechan
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being paul
Resistance on the frontier and the main toward
tenance of law and order within the
Colony by the United Kingdom garrison before the arrival of United States
air support.
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Amenians.
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