OUTWARD TELEGRAM.
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
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94001/28/49 Cypher (0.T.P.)
TO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
Sent 6th March, 1949.
No.266
TOP SECRET.
07.30 hrs.
Addressed to Governor, Hong Kong,
Repeated to Commissioner General, South East Asia,
No.147.
Your telegram No.113 repeated to Commissioner General
by savingram and your telegram No.217.
Wiring of frontier.
Chiefs of Staff have noted that essential wiring could be completed in four days, and in the light of your
agreement with the views of the telegram No.113 they are in Local Defence Committee that the wiring should not be done until the refugee threat appears imminent.
Distributed to:-
R. 243
Secretary of State
P.S. to Minister of State
Sir T. Lloyd
Mr. Rees Williams
Sir C. Jeffries
Mr. Poynton
Mr. Holding
Cabinet Offices
Mr.
Paskin
MP.
Sidebotham
MT
W.I.J. Wallace
Mr. Trafford Smith
Mr. Morgan
MT.
Mr.
Harris
Seel
Mr W.A. Morris
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- Lt.Col. P.R.M. Waterfield.