CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946 — Page 243

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16TH AUGUST, 1945

CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE

JAPANESE SURRENDER AT HONG KONG

Copy of a letter (F. 5141/5012/G) dated 16th August, 1945

from the Foreign Ofice

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I enclose a copy of Dening's telegram No. 352.

The Chiefs of Staff will no doubt wish to consider urgently the method by which it should be communicated to the Japanese in Hong Kong that they should surrender to a British force.

Offices of the Cabinet and

Minister of Defence, S.W.1.

16TH AUGUST, 1945.

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(Signed) J.C. STERNDALE BENNETT