(c) Concerning individual officers they fall into thi groups:
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(1) HONG KONG Government civil servants and those whose home is in HONG KONG. These people are obviously going back to HONG KONG and the Chinese know that they will do so irrespective of their association with the B.A.A.G; I do not consider that there would be any criticism from the Chinese if these people joined the Civil Affairs Unit.
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This particularly When HONG KONG is
(ii) Those whose value lies in their with 100 KONG affairs and personalities. applies to our security section officers. re wken, the new government there will be the one body to whom their work and records will be of value and this section obviously carab 30.
hose officers have never been in the forward areas and nonce the same objection to them serving with the Civil Affairs what does not apply.
(41) Wase whose main value lies in their up-to-date contacts
In this with and knowledge of the people in KWANGTUNG. category fall the senior officers such as Lt.-Col. HOOPER and myself; I would stress again our value lies in our continued contact; I understand from DII/7609 of 29th March 1945 that the present plan is to relieve me of my command here and post me to the Civil Affairs Unit. What the C.A. Unit most requires is constant liaison with the B.A.A.G. Officers who are still in close personal touch with the situation in the forward areas, a If these officers are situation which is constantly changing. removed permanently from the field the whole scheme will suffer.
I think therefore that senior officers should remain with the B.A.A.G. until the end of its work in South CHINA maintaining clo e personal liaison with the C.A. Unit both basfa before and after the reoccupation. This liaison will be of greatest value during the pre-reoccupation planning stage and for this one or two senior officers should be sent to the C.A. planning unit for consultations.
(a) I would therefore suggest the following for consideration; (1) That the B.A.A.G. should continue to perform its military functions in S uth CHINA as at present constituted until such time as there is no longer any military necessity for its existence;
(ii) During that time it should only be used in the planning and the operations for the recapture of IIUNG KONG in so far as its Charter, as approved by the Chinese allows.
(iii) Until the C.A. Unit moves into HONG KONG, there should be the closest liaison between the C.A. Unit and the B.A.A.G. 11.S.
This can best be achieved by the passing of our intelligence reports concerning HONG KONG and South CHINA to the C.A. Unit and if necessary by visits of our senior officers or members of "I" Jection to the C.A. Unit.
(iv) after the C.A. Unit moves into HONG KONG, the B.A.A.G. should have its supply base in HONG KONG. Complete liaison with the HONG KONG Government could be maintained through this base with the officers in the field. ·
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