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ANNEX II
DRAFT SIGNAL
From: Cabinet Offices.
To:-
C.in-C., HONG KONG.
Repta. S.A.C.S.E.A.
A.C.S.3.A.
British Embassy,
Following from Chiefs of Staff.
CHUNGKING
Your Signal T.0.0. 141030Z February.
Construction of airfield at PING SHAN has been reviewed in light of reduced military requirements and report of Air Ministry and Civil Aviation Mission under Air Commodore
Darley.
2.
We can no longer justify heavy expenditure in continuing
Although second airfield this project on military grounds.
is desirable KAITAK is sufficient to accommodate approved
There is no longer R.Á.F. garrison and Fleet Air Arm Units. immediate military requirement for 4-engined transport route to JAPAN, and occupational force will be supported by Dakota Squadrons based on HONG KONG.
3.
We had hoped that cost of PING SHAN project would
have been shared by Civil Aviation, but Ministry of Civil Aviation do not find this site up to international Civil
They are only Aviation Standards for large aircraft. interested in alternative site at DEEP BAY.
4.
For these reasons you are to abandon all work at PING
SHAN, and release R.A.F. Airfield Construction Unit for
return to U.K.
Ministry of Civil Aviation and Colonial Office are considering possible requirement of alternative at DEEP BAY site, and their decisions will be made known to you in due course.
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