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With the compliments of Mr. P.N.N. Synnott.
MOST IMMEDIATE
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER.
Jel Exit 145.
Ou. Refi-
11.08160/45.
Dear Drew,
ADMIRALTY, S.#.1.
25th August, 1945.
Reference your 124/Hong Kong/6 (C.A.4) of 22nd August.
I return herewith a draft directive to the Military Governor Hong Kong, which is in principle the same as yours, but with certain changes.
2. As you will see we propose to include general provisions in Part I, which incorporates paragraphs 1 and 11 of your draft of your Civil Affairs Directive.
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The Chiefs of Staff decisions on these are not yet complete, which is the cause of my delay in replying to you.
4. We suggest having the Civil Affairs paragraphs as a separate Part II. There are certain minor drafting amendments with which I expect you can agres.
It is, of
5. We feel that paragraph 10 of your draft should come out. The Military Governor would be Military Governor only and probably not Commander of the Forces. The C.C.A.0. should therefore be responsible to him only. course, undesirable and unnecessary as a rule for any officer to be responsible more than one authority in respect of the same function. communications will be available in the first instance. Owen Hughes of your staff yesterday and he agreed.
In any case, only nava. I discussed this with
6. The matter is most urgent as the naval forces has probably now started for Hong Kong, I send these by special messenger in the hopes that you will be able to clear to me by telephone. We will have to reduce the Directive to telegrapher for the purpose of signalling it. I want to get out the directive as soon as Chiefs of Staff have cleared up the outstanding matters on Parj I.
To save signal traffic we would not signal the Directive to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer, assuming he can produce it on arrival.
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I am sending a copy of this to Faskin.
Colonel F.G. Drew, Hotel Vistoria,
Northumberland Avenue »
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Yours sincerely,
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