CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946 — Page 191

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1.Ambassador,

Chung king.

Tel gram

Cypher 0.1.p.

Rspect to

qushing ton

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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