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16TH AUGUST, 1945
CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE
JAPANESE SURRENDER AT HONG KONG
Copy of a letter (F. 5141/5012/G) dated 16th August, 1945
from the Foreign Ofice
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I enclose a copy of Dening's telegram No. 352.
The Chiefs of Staff will no doubt wish to consider urgently the method by which it should be communicated to the Japanese in Hong Kong that they should surrender to a British force.
Offices of the Cabinet and
Minister of Defence, S.W.1.
16TH AUGUST, 1945.
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(Signed) J.C. STERNDALE BENNETT