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Further JCM 16. 27
Following is the text of instructions which the United States Chiefs of Staff have to-day issued to Wedemeyer and MacArthur for action.
Repeated to Nimitz, wheeler, Spaatz and us for
information.
BEGINS.
The British Chiefs of Staff state that military co-ordination on operational matters is being effected by them. wedemeyer is directed to inform MacArthur when military co-ordination with him and with the Chinese Board of Military Operations is completed by the British, at which time MacArthur will arrange for the surrender of
In this connection the British Hong Kong to the British. desire that the surrender should be made to a British Commander to be nominated by Admiral Fraser. Chiefs of Staff further state that they will give full facilities through the Hong Kong area, so far as the conditions of the port allow, 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.
2.
ENDS.
The British
You will observe that the United States Chiefs of Staff have not repented the substance of the Generalissimo's