DRAFT
23/8.
Colonel Price,
Cabinet Offices.
('an from Shewale et
Copy to
Ramett
Fo.
Mr. Paskin,
Colonial Office.
In Boyd Shannen D.O.
Allied authority
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Immediat's Top Secret.
Dear Price,
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August 1945.
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We have been considering Chungking tele-
grem so. 909 with the Colonial Office.
Their view is that it is important that
we should not get into the position of ccept-
ing dong ong from the Chinese and that it is
unacceptable, therefore, that the British
Officer wao tuxes the surrender shoula do so
as the delegate of Chiang Kai-shek.
We agree with this view. At the same
time we shoula like to rive some sppesrince
of meeting Ching Kai-shek in order to make
it easier for him to sccept the position. The
only concession We con suggest is based on
the assumption that surrender document ill
be signed in Hong Kong. In that event
we suggest that the document anould be onsed
on the model of the Act of Military Surrender
signeu et Berlin on May 8th 1945, but that the
Japanese shali sign "in the presence of"
the Commander of the British Force onl,
other Allied representatives present signing
afterwarus as being "present 83 witnesses".
Whether this is practicable or not leponds
n the capacity in which the Commander of
the British Force will sign, 1.9. whether
he would sign on behalf of 1.4.C. in the U.Á. of as the offin | 5/23
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capacity this would appear to obviate
any difficulty not only visvis Chieng K:1-
shek...
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