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TOP SECRET
CIPHER TELEGRAM
Ente Green 138 Бабат
339311
This message will not be distributed outside British Government Departments or Headquarters or re-transmitted, even in cipher, without being paraphrased. (Messages marked O.T.P. need not be paraphrased.)
1F6042/114)/
From: HQ British Troops in
To:
China.
War Office.
Recd: 211305 Aug.45.
D.T.0.311015 H.
Info: SACSEA
C. in C.India.
IMMEDIATE.
G/1794/S Cipher 21 Aug. TOP SECRET.
For M.0.12.
Request I may be informed immediately of the
plan for reoccupation of Hongkong.
Complicated
questions are arising here on which it is difficult
for me to act without full knowledge.
Two. Have just heard from Ride that Ameri can
plan for Hongkong in which he is participating under my instructions has broken down and he is back in
Kunming. No details yet available.
C.6(Tals)
Distribution by M.0.12.
Copies to:- C.I.G.S.
V.C.I.G.S.
A.C.I.G.S.(0).
D. M.0.
D. D. M.O.(A). (B).
M.0.1. 12.
D. Plans.
G.S. (P).
D. M. I.
D. D. M.I.(I). (P).
M.I.
M. I.2.17.
A.M.C.S. Air Ministry
Head of War Registry, Admiralty.
Foreign Office (Mr.Sterndale Bennett).
Colonial Office (Mr.Gent).
Defence Office.
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