could reinforce the members of his British Army Aid Group staff with other suitable British personnel in Suth Last China and possibly with Colonial
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Government officials now interned if any are still in
the Hong Kong camp when he takes over.
The draft of a Lar Office telegram to
Mountbatten which has been prepared as a result of consultation between the branches concerned of our
two Ministries is attached. In the War Office, I
understand, those branches include the Military
Operations Directorate, the Civil Affairs
Directorate and the Military Intelligence
Directorate, the last having acted as sponsor because they had the necessary military contacts in China.
lso, when the matter was first raised here both the Directors of Intelligence, India and 3.5.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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