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1.Ambassador,
Chung king.
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No.
Mr. Dening, Kandy
No.
Cabinet Distribu-
tion.
TOP SECRET
MOST IMMEDIATE.
August 1945.
Your telegram No. yoy Löf
August 2ra: Hong Kong7.
H.M.G. cre of course anxious to
rrane
reach a mutually satisfactory
went vita Chiang Kai-shek. They
regret, nowwer, that they cannot
eres that the officer Commending the
British Force should rettne
aelegat. of Chieng Kai-nek in :ccept-
ing the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong.
As already indicated, however, they
would welcose tue presence of a
representative of Chiang Kai-shek in
Hong Kong an
Kong in the occasion of the surren-
aer.
2. The surrender would be sccept-
ed by the British Officer in Command
of the Britisa Force, but the Chinese
officer in 195 tạ bj Chieng loet
would attend ns the representative of
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