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TOP SECRET

CIPHER TELEGRAM

This message will not be distributed outside British Government Departments or Headquarters or re-transmitted, even in cipher, without being paraphrased. (Messages marked O.T.P. need not be paraphrased.)

580

Desp. 132050 Aug.45

1945

FROM:

WAR OFFICE

D.T.0 131330/A.

TO

S.A.C.S.E. A.

IMPORTANT

66837

cipher C.A.4 13

Aug 45

TOP SECRET

Subject HONG KONG

ONE

TWO

Reference Foreign Office telegram 859 to CHUNGKING.

Intention is that Admiral Brucc Fraser should be instructed

to send Naval Force to establish initial British Military

Administration in Hong Kong, Text of Proclamation already

repeated by Admiralty to C-in-C East Indies follows by

Copy is being communicated to Australia by Dominions

air.

Office.

Specific authority of H.M.G. being cabled to Bruce Fraser

for communication to GISON authorising him to hand over

authority to Senior Officer Commanding His Britannic

Majesty's Forces in Hong Kong immediately on arrival such

Forces.

C.6.Tels.

Copies to:-

D.l.O. D.D.M.O (B)

D. C. A.

D.D.C.A (I.G. ) D.D. C.A (P. & T.) Col. (C.A.) (3). M0.12.

C.A 4.

Admiralty (r. C. H.

Waldock)

Dominions Office (Mr. Antrobus)

Foreign Office

(Mr. Sterndale Bennett) Colonial Office (Mr. Gent) (2),

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