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CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE
JOINT PLANNING STAFF
FUTURE GARRISON OF HONG KONG
Draft Report by the Joint Planning Staff
In anticipation of instructions we have examinod a telegram from S.A.C.S.2.A. in which he forwards views concerning the garrison of Hong Kong expressed by South East Asia Defence Committee as a result of a meeting with the Governor of that colony.
Present Agreed Policy
2. The Cabinet Dofence Committee's present agroed policy/ with regard to the defence of Hong Kong is briefly as follows:-
(a)
Since the Colony could not be defended against attack by a major power in occupation of the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong should be regarded as an undefended port.
(b) To ensure internal security, as a protection
against piracy, and as a deterrent to an attempt at incursion by Chinese guerillas, forces of the order of one brigade and haif a flying boat squadron would be required in the Colony for some considerable time, units of the British Pacific Fleet providing such local naval cc-operation in these tasks ne may be required.
(c) The present Army garrison of two brigades
should be reduced to one brigade directly the re-establishment of the local Police Force permitted. The Chiefs of Staff informed C.in-C., Hong Kong, that they understood this reduction would be possible by 1st January, 1947.
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