CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946 — Page 75

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question, the Foreign Office essual that the Chiefs of Staff will consider, in consultation ith the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, the desirabili- ty or otherwise of thing at ps to request either tart General Order No. 1 shell be amended as provided in paragraph 1 of the Oruer, or that subsequent instructions shall be issued in virtue of partrugh 17, to make it clear beyond all oubt that the surrender at Hong Kong will be to Aaniral Harcourt, without my attached condition suggesting that he is acting on behalf of Chiang Kai-shez zione.

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8. A copy of this letter is being sent to the Coloniel Office.

Yours sincerely,

(Signed) J.C. Sterndale Bennett.