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CIPHER TELEGRAM
124/Hong on/5.
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From: CinC Hong Kong.
To: The War Office.
Colonial Office.
Embassy, Chungking.
Consul General, Canton. Cabinet Offices.
Recd.
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071845 Mar 146
D.T.0. 0607182.. R204
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IMMEDIATE
060732 cipher 7 Mar,
SECRET
Following is paraphrased version of my 060730ź
March passed to Canton through other channels.
Begins in view of the precarious rice situation, it has been decided to restrict further registration for obtaining the Govt ration of rice which has already been halved' the following notification will be issued MT 0800Z on Friday, 8th March. Begins...
Para Two.
(A) Hong Kong depends for substantially the whole of its rico supply on allocations made to this Colony by the Combined Food Board in Washington. These allocations are based on total world requirements and available supplies, the Colony in principle receiving an allocation proportionato to its population, the allocations aro made quarterly and obviously cannot take into account unpredictable increases of population due to immigration.
(B) The British Military Administration of Hongkong has given its anxious consideration to the whole question of
rice rationing in relation to tho circumstances indicated above.
The Administration considers that much as it rould like to
7provide...