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members of his British Army Aid Group staff with

other suitable British personnel in South East China

and possibly with Colonial Government officials

now interned if any are still in the Hong Kong camp

when he takes over.

The draft of a War Office telegram to Mountbatten

which has been prepared as a result of consultation

between the branches concerned of our two Ministeries

is attached. In the War Office, I understand,

those branches include the Military Operations

Directorate, the Civil Affairs Directorate and the

Pasl Military Intelligence Directorate, the latter having

acted as sponsor because they had the necessary

military contacts in China. Also, when the matter

was first raised here both the Directors of

Intelligence, India and S.E.A.C. and the Military

Attaché, Chungking, were in London and I understand

that the opportunity was taken to acquaint them of

the proposal.

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