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THE CHURCH HOUSE,

GREAT SMITH STRAST,

LONDON, S.W.1.

January, 1949.

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Dear Zvegintzov,

I feel extremely grateful to you and Warner for the valuable discussion which we had this morning of various colonial defence problems.

I enclose as I agreed, a copy of a list which is approximately up to date showing

(a) existing imperial garrisons;

(b) existing local forces and

(e) the proposed scales of local

forces which the Chiefs of Staff are now about to examine.

It is this last list which I suggested that you and I should examine in detail at a further meting, which I suggest might now take place as soon as you can find convenient next week.

I also enclose a copy of the Clonial Office paper which I mentioned on "Plans for the Defence of Hong Kong in the present

mergency", which we have put in for the consideration of the Chiefs of Staff.

LT.-COLONEL D.O. ZVEGINTZOV,

WAR OFFICE, (SD2).

Yours sincerely,

(J.C. MORGAN)