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MOST IMMEDIATE

Tof SECRET.

Despatched 4:

FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.,

21 August, 1945.

M.

Draft.

H.M. Ambassador,

CHUNGKING

Telegram.

No.

954

Cypher O.T.P.

Repeat to:

Washington, No 64

S.E.A.C.

(for Mr Dening).

397

Immando pile.

Cabriel Dustwalutin

Any 21.5k

My telegram No. 933 and your telegrams Nos. 884.7

-897

For your own information British Chiefs of

Staff have instructed Joint Staff Mission in

Washington to inform U.S. Chiefs of Staff that

military coordination is being effected by the

British Chiefs of Staff on operational matters

and that we undertake, so far as the conditions

of the port allow, to give full facilities

through the Hong Kong area for the assistance

and support of Chinese and American forces who may still be either engaged against the enemy

or involved in securing the surrender of

Japanese forces in the hinterland.

2.

Joint Staff Mission have been

instructed to ask the U.S. Chiefs of Staff

to inform General Wedemeyer in this sense and

to instruct General MacArthur, if they have not

already done so, to arrange for the surrender of

Hong Kong to the British Commander nominated by

Admiral Fraser.

3.

telegram.

Please see my immediately following

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