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Falkland Islands Dependencies.

Instructions for H.M.S. NIGERIA and H.M.S. SNIPE have bw been agreed between Admiralty, Foreign Office and ourselves, and follow general lines forecast in my telegram No. 48 BRIEF paragraph 4. Foreign Secretary specially requested that Governor of the Falklands should after all go on board the naval ships and we are telegraphing te-night requesting him to do so unless there are pressing reasons requiring his presence in Port Stanley. Governor is also being asked to consider whether there is anything that can usefully be done by sending on board the naval ships additional personnel or stores to give visible reinforcement to existing

We now British F.I.D.S, parties in the Dependencies, ́understand from Foreign Office that it is not (repeat Dot) likely that Argentine President is accompanying Argentine fleet on Antarctic manoeuvres as had been rumoured,

(Copies sent to Foreign Office for

transmission to U.K. Delegation, New York)