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Secretary of State.

For Sir George Gater's signature

March, 1946.

You will be interested to see, and

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perhaps may wish to show to the Chief's

of staff, the attached copy of a minute

which I sent to Mr. Rowan, the Prime

Minister's Private Secretary, on the

subject of the continuance of the

military administration in Hong Kong

after the 1st of April.

I understand that the Prime Minister

has decided that the military

administration should continue for a

further month from the 1st of April.

We are accordingly issuing the public

announcement contemplated in the last

paragraph

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giving the end of April as the date of Sir Mark

Young's return to the Colony and the resumption

of civil administration.

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