CO129-591-17 Liberation of Hong Kong- instructions to Mr Gimson- proposed civil administrator 10-8-1945 - 21-9-1945 — Page 29

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instruction and authority to do so.

We do not suggest that there is any urgency of consultation here which requires him to travel home by air, and from a health point of view it may even be thought desirable that he should come at least part of the way by ship, but we must leave that entirely to local arrangements.

Yours sincerely,