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be drawn from the British Pacific ent to land forces in the Bias Bay boundaries are so shallow that only

this duty. As three river gun- roserve on the East Indian Ocean, be transferred to HONG KONG. minor war vessels employed on in-

Those

aft must be maintained to provide xpedition outlined in Section V, total of 750 men and 57 vehicles.

L (L) are considered to be sufficient

in rocarmended that the strength of

*. increased from 1 Infantry Brigade gre Group, further consideration

une I. I.. for use as a

tor landing craft. This LS.L

ft above could provide lift for a

st (vide Section V (e) and also for

TROL CRAFT.

ufficient in-shore patrols to meet 1 (r), it is considered that two

I

maintained at HONG KONG. One

r of which have been converted for

ly required until such time as the

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anco the waters of the Colony have

Lor to the cessation of hostilition

's would be sufficient to keep Swopt ships.

CRAFT, MIDGET SUBLARINES AND

ID JUNKS.

unt of junk traffic and fishing craft

is not considered practicablo to

t this form of attack.

Prior

nd sound internal organization for

n harbour should be relied upon.

Colony is the responsibility of the

aft ashore would be placed at the

The following aircraft will

ling.

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normally be ashore:

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

Provision is being made for the eventual accommodation 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 force and to provide bombardment spotting. As the Royal Air Force my encounter considerable 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.

ACCOL¡ODATION.

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

This

10. RADAR.

The provision of Radar net-work is being investigated and off-shore Radar picket ships may be required until shore Radar is properly organized.

11. NING.

For protection against the possible scales of attack onvisaged 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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