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CIPHER TELEGRAM

This message will not be distributed outside British Government Departments or Headquarters or re-transmitted, even in cipher, without being paraphrased. (Messages marked O.T.P. need not be paraphrased).

2 SEP 1946

074345.

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FROM:

Admiralty

ΤΟ : C.-in-C HONG KONG

Following From The War Office C,...4. cipker. 18 Sep 45

54144122145.

-Your 120756Z Sep last para.

your

D.T.0.190127

IMPORTANT

SECRET

ene. 1. As soon as McDougall has taken over and you can spare them,

GIMSON and other senior Colonial Office fficials from internment should be evacuated earliest.

wer. NO(repeat No question of permission of Colonial Office arises.

They are exclusively under your orders.

Copies to:-

S. of S. P.U.S. P.U.S. (F)

F.M.

U.S. of S.

C.I.G.S.

V.C.I.G.S.

L. C. I.G.S (0)

D.M.0.

D.D.M.O (A) (B)

D.Plans.

M.0.1.

M. 0.12.

D.M.I.

M.1.2, 17. D.C..

D.D.C.A (M. G.) 3m

D.D. C.A (P. & T.)

Col. C.A.

C.A.1, 4, 17, 9.

F.5.

C........S (H.K.) 2, Park Street.

Colonial Office (Mr.Gent)

(Telegraph Sec.)