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en they invited the War Office

the Colonial Office, the question

tment, strength and composition

They anggetto, Laverne Police Force, bearing in mind thetr '

that the proportion of European

uld be as high as circumstances

They also agreed to defer

of the proposal to withdraw British

ong Kong until the organisation and

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Chiefs of Staff meeting on the

have received a letter from the

king us to consider the question of

ice Force or Gendarmerie for the

ng Kong if the Army formations are

thirefore foresawes

We have refited by forwarding to the

God

e Hong Kong Defence Committee paper

as a remeet nothing father 1,), (ogether with the copy of the

Done

Forkenality this

Hong Kong Defence Committee's paper

reached in about the same time.

We have stressad with

a the views expressed in that paper

atrength of the Garrison required in

We have auggested to them that

deration of the matter-should-be

1 the commente of the S.E. A. Defence

the Hong Kong Committee's report have

and studied by the Chiefs of Staff.

where the matter rests at present.

doubt, receive the observations of the e Committee on the Hong Kong Committee's

ourse, and when these have been

re,

we wil let you know how matters stand.

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13031/4/46

Dear Sudgen

6th September, 1946. 55

In Gater's absence I am replying to your lutter (No. 1012/B/979) of the 31st August about the question of the future Garrison o Hong Kong. lie quite agree to your circulating the note, a copy of which you enclosed in your ictter.

On a small point, we suggest that the first sentence of Annex V to the Note should read "We understand from the Colonial office that the Hong Kong Lefence Committee recently submitted

to the South East Asia elence Committee a report etc.", since the report was actually, according to our information," forwarded not to SAC JNA, but to the Secretary of the South East Asia' Defence Committee.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) A.J. Dawe.

MAJOR GENERAL C.S. SUGDEN, C.B., C.B.E.

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