CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945 — Page 101

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Secretary of State.

DRAFT. LETTER.

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J.C. STERNDALE-BENNETT,

C.M.G., M.C.,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

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My dear Sterndale-Bennett,

April, 1945.

We have read with much interest the

proposals put forward by the Ambassador in Chung King after discussion with Generals

Carton de Wiart and Hayes, which are contained in his telegram No. 379 of the 17th April. The establishment of a British Liaison Mission

with the advanced H.Q. of both Chine se and

American Forces would, from our point of

Love advantages

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forces

view, have everything to commend it. We

should be particularly glad to see arrange-

ments for British liaison with the

destined to carry out seaborne invasion of

Hong Kong. As you know, there is a proposal

that a secret Emergency Civil Affairs Unit should be formed from British personnel at

present in free China, wit' the object of Torestalling a possible seizure of Hong Kong

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This project

with fon berce red from

development here of the ex

FURTHER ACTION.

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Copy to Lt. Col.

B.F.Montgomery, M.B.E,

M.I.2, War Office.

The ha

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made

by irregular Chinese Forces.

has been discussed at a high level between

the War Office and ourselves, but instructions

to General Hayes have not yet been despatched pending clarification of the position of the various British clandestine and para-military

organisations in China. This project,

however, which is planned to forestall a

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