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OUTWARD TELEGRAM
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54144/40(5)
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No.970
CABINET DISTRIBUTION
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING
23rd August, 1945.
D. 5.40 p.m. 23rd August, 1945.
Repeated to: Washington No.8737 Immediate.
Supreme Allied Command South East Asia (Mr. Dening) No.409 Immediate.
MOST IMMEDIATE.
Following Associated Press message from Chungking, dated August 22nd, has received publicity here.
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The Chinese surrender terms to the Japanese issued tonight disclose that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's forces will occupy Hongkong and the enemy's island fortress of Formosa, as well as Northern Indo-China and a small part of Siam.
The British authorities in Chungking declined to comment on the inclusion of Hongkong as one of the areas to be occupied by the Chinese. A Chinese Army spokesman declared that Hongkong was in the China theatre and the High Command "naturally assumed responsibility to accept the Japanese surrender there".
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