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INDEXED
SECRET CIPHER
TELEGRAM
From: The War Office.
To:
G. O. C. Hong Kong.
SECRET.
74647 cipher (M.0.2.) 22/6/40.
177/10 E
F0441 / 171
24 JUN 1948
239
1/083/5979.
Desp. 2130 22/6/40.
authorise evacuation.
Our 74590 cipher (M.0.2) 21/6/40.
War Cabinet docs not (repeat not)
Please however report up to date
details of evacuation particularly number of white women
and children for evacuation under seperate headings,
Service and non-Service, estimated time required for
carrying out evacuation plan, whether plan provides for
naval escort on passage,
C. 4. (Telegrams)
Copies to:- S.of.S.
2576.
C. I. G. S.
V. C. I. G. S. A. C. I. G. S. (a) D. M. O. &. P. D. D. M. 0. D. M. I. D. D. M. I. (I)
M. I.
M. 0. 1. 2. 2a. M. I.2. 20.
M. I. (J. I. C.)
D. Q.M.G. (a) (b)
D. Movements
Q(M)20. 3.
42.
Foreign Office (Mr. H. Ashley Clarke) Admiralty (Cmdr.S. Barry)
Air Ministry (Sqdn. Ldr.C. I. Casey) Colonial Office (Mr. G. E. J. Gent)
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