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Mayle. 11.1.46.

Lloyd..

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SIR ERIC SPEED, KBE, MC.

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WAR OFFICE.

FURTHER ACTION

Retera

M.

to the mayle.

(1)

Many thanks for your letter

CAL/BM/170 of the 10th of January

concerning the arrangements for the

command of the forces of the three

services in Hong Kong on the resumption

of the civil administration.

We will certainly take this up

with the Chiefs of Staff. We should

propose to remind them that when the

Governor takes over, the directives issued

to Admiral Harcourt will no longer be

appropriate. We should make the point

that under one of those directives all

three Services in the Colony are placed

under the command of Admiral Harcourt

and should say that we presume that the

Chiefs of Staff will wish to be

considering what arrangements should be

made, after the resumption of civil

administration, for the command of those

Services. We would propose also to

mention that the Governor will of course

resume the titular appointment of

Commander in Chief which he held

before