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TOP SECRET CYPHER_TELEGRAM
DESPATCHED BY UNI 1945
OFT
OZ 6120
IMMEDIATE
From
:
Market
Cabinet Offices.
To :- S.A.C.S. E. A.
Rptd
C.-in-C. Hong Kong
C.-in-C. India ALFSEA
COSSEA 376
TOO
101530z
TOD 101810z
10th. October, 1945.
Ref. C.-in-C. Hong Kong telegram 270530 NOT to India.
Following from Chiefs of Staff.
No frau
FIRST. Agree garrison of two brigades necessary for Hong Kong until conditions improve.
SECOND. Understand 2 Div less one brigade will be available if, as seems likely, no British garrison required for China ports.
THIRD Request information date when one brigade of 2 Div can be moved to Hong Kong and effect of this move on other planned shipping commitments, in particular reoccupation Borneo.
FOURTH. Admiralty are asking C.-in-C. E.I.F. whether he could make available C.V. E. 's to assist with move.
T.0.0. 101530z
Circulation
Defence Office Foreign Office
First Sea Lord
C.6 Tels.. War Office
A. M.C.S.(C)
S. of S. India
S. of S. Colonies
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