OUTWARD TELEGRAM
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[THIS TELEGRAM IS OF PARTICULAR SECRECY AND SHOULD BE RETAINED BY THE AUTHORISED RECIPIENT AND NOT PASSED ON].
F.5466/1147/G.
[CYPHER]
CABINET DISTRIBUTION.
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING.
170
No. 955.
21st August 1945.
Repeated to Washington No. 8645.
D. 4.30 p..
21st August 1945.
Supreme Allied Command South East Asia No. 398 Immediate.
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MOST IMMEDIATE.
32
TOP SECRET.
3/My immediately preceding telegram.
Please inform Generalissimo that British Chiefs of Staff
(a) undertake, so far as the conditions of the port allow, to give full facilities through the Hong Kong area for the assistance and support of Chinese and American forces who may still be either engaged against the enemy or involved in securing the surrender of Japanese forces in the hinterland;
(b) make themselves responsible on the British side for arranging military co-ordination with the Generalissimo on these matters.
2. You should add that the British Chicfs of Staff have made a similar communication to the United States Chiefs of Staff.
O.T.P.
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