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irawn from the British Pacific

to land forces in the Bias Bay

iarios are so shallow that only

B duty. As three river gun- arve on the East Indian Ocean, transferred to HONG KONG.

These

war vessels employed on in-

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must be maintained to provide lition outlined in Section V,

of 750 men and 37 vehicles.

L) are considered to be sufficient

commended that the strength of ncreased from 1 Infantry Brigade

Group, further consideration

one LS. I. for use as a

⚫ landing craft. This LS. LI

bovo could provide lift for a

vide Section V (e) and also for

CRAFT.

cient in-shore patrols to meet

), it is considered that two

intained at HONG KONG. One

which have been converted for

equired until such time as the

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> the waters of the Colony have

to the cessation of hostilities

3.

uld be sufficient to keep Swept

FT, MIDGET SUBLARINES AND

JUNKS

of junk traffic and fishing craft

not considered practicablo to

is form of attack. Prior

ound internal organization for rbour should be relied upon.

ony is the responsibility of the ashore would be placed at the

The following aircraft will

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normally be ashore:

One floet requirements' unit which will contain at least four fighter aircraft and also a reserve aircraft pool of unknown strongth.

Provision is being made for the eventual accomodation of aircraft of two C. V. L each of whose air group consists of the following:- 12 fighters and 12 T. B. R. aircraft.

These aircraft would be available to carry out reconnaissance, to form a striking farce and to provide bombardment spotting. As the Royal Air Force may encounter msiderable difficulty in flying replacement aircraft into the Colony over the large distances involved through foreign territory, it is for consideration that a carrier be available in the Singapore area,

9.

ACCⱭLODATION.

To maintain the naval forces outlined above, no additional accomodation to that already used will be required except for HiS. HABCATCHER at Kad Tak, which requires accomodation for a total of 179 officers, 204 Chief and Potty aicers and 1,104 ratings. includes accomodation for two disembarked carrier air groups.

10. RADAR.

This

The provision of Radar net-work is being investigated and off-shoro Radar piclet ships may be required until 8..ore Radar is properly organized.

11. MINING.

For protection against the possible scales of attack envisaged it is not considered that a mining plan is justified, Should this be considered necessary proposals are contained in Appendix "C".

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