BE WRITTEN IN
THIS MARGIN.
Registry
No.F 6066/1147/G
Draft.
Colonel Price,
Cabinet Offices.
Immediate
Top Secret
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September 1945.
Dear Price,
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you
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I have been instructed to draw your
the
of the Chiefs of Staff tention to Chungking telegram No. 988
(from Mr.Sterndale
Bennett).
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about the date of the formal surrender at
Hong Kong.
2. On general grounds and for the par-
ticular reasons connected with our commercial
interests in China itself, to which Sir H.
Seymour drew attention in paragraph 5 of his
telegram No. 984, it is obviously desirable to
to the act in harmony with Chiang Kai-shek as far as unaximum axdint that is possible
993 Hopet
Mr. Gent,
Colonial Office.
Jestemadute Bennett
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we een without prejudicing any essential
interest in Hong Kong itself. From this point
love
of view there seems/no objection in principle
to arranging for the surrender to take place
after the main surrender of the Chinese forces
within China to Chiang Kai-shek.
3. Nevertheless, there are certain
points to which the Foreign Office feel bound
to draw the attention of the Chiefs of Staff
so that the latter may consider whether any
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safeguarding action is required. It is
possible that Chiang Kai-shek's attitude
over the surrender in Hong Kong is not merely
a question of immediate prestige, but is
the Generalissimo.
designed to give Chiang Kai shek â basis for
in Hong Kong
maintaining, after the surrender that he
must continue to direct and supervise the
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implementation of the surrender.in Hong Kong.
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