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EMBASSY
CHUNGKING
FOR DESPATCH BY THE FOREIGN OFFICE
NR
Heference War Office
No
Vu. 58502*
telegram to Hayes about an emergency
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stration for Hong Kong,
which he has been asked to show you, Colonial Office
e conception is a small party of
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fifteen or twenty persons who should
establish themselves in Hong Kong
to act as a rallying point for
British authority within the Colony
until the arrival of regular
occupational forces with Civil
Affairs component.
2.
It will be for
General Hayes to prepare practicable
scheme
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