CO129-591-11 Emergency unit 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1945 — Page 88

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Dear P.V

Thank you for your letter of 12th February,

about the Hong Kong emergency administration party. I

felt sure that you would share my appreciation of the

practical importance of taking some precaution of this

sort, and I should not regard the recent Japanese

moves in South China as affecting the need for asking

the Military Attache to get ahead with thinking out

the necessary plan of a scheme for submission to us.

For my part I appreciate your comments as to

the character of the proposcd "energency administration"

and I accept your aendments in the deft telegram with

the addition that I feel that the paragraph beginning

"second" should be revised as follows:-

"second.

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In that event Colonial Office consider

very necessary to forestall assumption of

civil administration by Chinese by means of

The Right Honourable

Sir James Grigg, ACB, KCSI, MP.

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