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SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET.
To: CHINA.
Cypher telegram to Mr. Broadmead (Shanghai)
Foreign Office, 11th November 1959. 10.00 p.m.
No. 1110.
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IMMEDIATE.
Your telegram No.777 to Tokyo [of the 10th November:
announcement of withdrawal of garrisons from North China].
Following notice will be issued to the press by the
War Office in time for Monday morning's newspapers in
England:-
"In view of the fact that the trained personnel is
required elsewhere, the British battalion now stationed
in North China is being replaced by a small token force.
This force will consist of one company with the necessary
administrative details".
Repeated to Tokyo No.773, Paris No.956 Saving,
Rome No.661, Tientsin No. 165, Hongkong No.- and Commander-in-
Chief No.-
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