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members of his British Army Aid Group staff with
other suitable British personnel in South East China
and possibly with Colonial Government officials
now interned if any are still in the Hong Kong camp
when he takes over.
The draft of a War Office telegram to Mountbatten
which has been prepared as a result of consultation
between the branches concerned of our two Ministeries
is attached. In the War Office, I understand,
those branches include the Military Operations
Directorate, the Civil Affairs Directorate and the
Pasl Military Intelligence Directorate, the latter having
acted as sponsor because they had the necessary
military contacts in China. Also, when the matter
was first raised here both the Directors of
Intelligence, India and S.E.A.C. and the Military
Attaché, Chungking, were in London and I understand
that the opportunity was taken to acquaint them of
the proposal.
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