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M.I
From:-- G.0.0. Hong Kong,
To
:- The War Office.
7494 cipher 15/7.
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-3546/177110 X
JUL
GORET CIPHER
309
SMCRMT.
*
"LEGRAM.
Desp.1719 15/7/40. Recd.1515 15/7/40.
American authorities anila refuse permission for combatant
officer to land. If onward journey to Australia of evacuated married families
to be carried out without discomfort and muddle and things made as easy as
possible for Australian authorities consider essential to send two or three
combatant officers to Manila. Hope you will obtain authority from Washington.
Feel local American attitude unreasonable and overstressing their neutrality and no possible objection to a few administrative officers in plain clothes.
Married families at Shanghai total about 54. Unless you order to contrary
propose to move these to Hong Kong for despatch to Australia as consider desirable that all military married families should be concentrated and difficulties
avoided in future in event of husbands being moved.
C.4. (Telegrams)
$
2017
-
اسم
el. to Washington sent
to Room 16x1; (No. 1540) CNB/7.
To M. 0.2. (for action)
Copies to D. M. G. & P. D.D.1.0.(0) M.0.1.2.2a, 2b. M.I.2. 2b. 2c. D. of Mov.
Q (M) 2. 2c. 3.
للهم
Colonial Office (Mr. Poynton) Foreign Office (H. Ashley-Clarke)
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