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C.0.S.(45) 541 (0)
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CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE
SURRENDER OF HONG KONG
Copy of a letter from the Foreign Office
dated 21st August, 1945
to the Secretary, Chiefs of Staff Committee
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Many thanks for your Top Secret letter COS 1136/5+ of 21st August. A telegram is going to Sir Horace Seymour giving him the information contained in it. Meanwhile I enclose copies of two telegrams sent to Chungking as a result of your letter cos 1132/50 of 20th August. The wording of paragraph 1 (b) of the second telegram (No. 955) will, we hope, satisfy Chiang Kai-Shek for the moment. But he will almost certainly ask for details about the channel through which liaison and co-ordination will be effected, and we should be grateful therefore if the Chiefs of Staff would put us in a position to explain these details as soon as practicable to Sir Horace Seymour for communication to the Generalissimo.
(Signed) J.C. STERNDALE BENNETT
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Offices of the Cabinet and
Minister of Defence, S.W. 1.
22ND AUGUST, 1945.
+ Annex I to C.0.S.(45) 202nd Meeting
Annexes. I and II
Annex IV to C.0.S.(45) 201st Meeting
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