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TOP SECRET
CIPHER TELEGRAM
ENE 57
072699.
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.)
From:
Admiralty,
To:
C-in-C.Hong Kong
D.T.0.071639/A
IMPORTANT
680.
TOP SECRET
12 SEP 1945
7 Sep 45
Following from War Office,
CA.4/5(a) cipher
ONE Subject is reopening of American and establishment of Chinese
TWO
Consulate-Generals in Hong Kong.
With end of Far East war, Foreign Office and Colonial Office agree desirability of reopening American Consulate as soon as possible. THREE Foreign Office represent that it is in our interest also to
establish Chinese Consulate at same time, as delay my reflect unfavourably on our applications to reopen British Consulates in
China.
Colonial Office agree.
FOUR Grateful your views earliest.
War Office Distribution by C.A.4. ̈ ̈
S. of S.
P.U.S.
U.S. of S.
F.M.
A.C.S.
D.C.A.
D.D.C.A. (MG) (3)
Col. C.A.
C. 1, 4, 17.
F.5.
V.C.I.G.S.
A.C.I.G.S.(0)
D.M.O.
D.D.M.O. (A) D.D.M.0.(3) M.0.1, 12. D.M.I.
D.D.M.I. (I) M.I.2, 17
C.I.G.S.
Seac Rear Link
(Lt.Col. Carver)
Colonial Office (Mr.Gent)
(Mr.Bourdillon)
Foreign Office (Mr. Sterndale Bennett).
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