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Foreign Office, S... 1.
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23rd August 1945.
Dssr Price >
Many thanks for your Top Secret letter of August 2nd covering coples of SELOOS telegrams. 3. 450-2 and of telograms sent to Auzirai Mountbatten andAdairel Fraser instructing them to conform to Gerferul scArthur's orders regarding the Jepanese surrender in S.B.2.C. and in Hong onɛ•
While the a-ferment of surrender arrangements in these areas is no doubt inevitable, it places us in a most invidious position as compared with that of the Russians and Chinese, who appear to be anzine their own arrangements quite independently of Generel MacArthur.
It Seems important to const is possible to ensure thet ur loyal coherence to 0.neral cArthur' orgers does not react to our cetriment at Hong Kong or elsewhere.
AB regards Hong Kong, I sa instructed by the Secretary of Buste to suggest to the Chiefs of Ctarf the advisability of sending a most urgent telegram to the United States Chiefs of Staff, pointing out that we have done everything which lies in our power to conform to the conditions laid down by the Unit d States Chiefs of Staff end to General MacArthur own views as regras tae accentance of the surrender t Hong Kong: Qa :1 *e saali be Elsd of confirastion from taea that se may rely upon them to see that all necessery steps Pre tesen
onel C.. Price, Cabinet Offices.
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