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INDEXED

SECRET CIPHER

TELEGRAM

From: The War Office.

To:

G. O. C. Hong Kong.

SECRET.

74647 cipher (M.0.2.) 22/6/40.

177/10 E

F0441 / 171

24 JUN 1948

239

1/083/5979.

Desp. 2130 22/6/40.

authorise evacuation.

Our 74590 cipher (M.0.2) 21/6/40.

War Cabinet docs not (repeat not)

Please however report up to date

details of evacuation particularly number of white women

and children for evacuation under seperate headings,

Service and non-Service, estimated time required for

carrying out evacuation plan, whether plan provides for

naval escort on passage,

C. 4. (Telegrams)

Copies to:- S.of.S.

2576.

C. I. G. S.

V. C. I. G. S. A. C. I. G. S. (a) D. M. O. &. P. D. D. M. 0. D. M. I. D. D. M. I. (I)

M. I.

M. 0. 1. 2. 2a. M. I.2. 20.

M. I. (J. I. C.)

D. Q.M.G. (a) (b)

D. Movements

Q(M)20. 3.

42.

Foreign Office (Mr. H. Ashley Clarke) Admiralty (Cmdr.S. Barry)

Air Ministry (Sqdn. Ldr.C. I. Casey) Colonial Office (Mr. G. E. J. Gent)

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