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Revised passage to replace paragraphs 2 and 3
of draft telegram to President Truman.
2. I am in general agreement with your
order which is now being examined in detail.
Meanwhile I have the following comments about
Hongkong.
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3. Chiang Kai-shek is claiming that
Hongkong 13 in the area in which Japanese
forces ere to surrender to him as Generalissimo
of the China theatre. While we are proposing
to inform Chiang Kai-shek that we shall wel-
come the presence of a representative of his
on the occasion of the acceptance of the
surrender of Japanese forces in Hongkong, we
have not interpreted General Order No. 1
and the expression "within Chine" as denoting
any decision that Hongkong is included in that
expression,
A.
As has already been notified to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chinese Govern-
ment, & British Naval force is now on its
way to release Hongkong from Japanese occupa-
tion, to bring aid to prisoners and internees
situated in the Colony and to restore
the British administration. It may be that
the Japanese commanders on the spat may regard
Hongkong as being "within China", and I
therefore request you to instruct the Allied
Supreme Commander, General,of the Army MacArthur
to order the Japanese High Command to ensure
that the Japanese local commanders in the
British Colony of Hongkong shell surrender to
the Commander of the British Naval force on his
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