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[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be retained by the authorised recipient and not passed-on.]
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No. 954
CABINET DISTRIBUTION
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING
21st August, 1945
Repeated to Washington No. 8644,
D. 4.30 p.m. 21st August, 1945
S.E.A.Č. (for Mr. Dening) No. 397, IMMEDIATE.
MOST IMMEDIATE
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TOP SECRET
My telegram No. 933 and your telegrams Nos. 884 and 897.
For your own information, British Chiefs of Staff have instructed Joint Staff Mission in Washington to inform United States 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 United States 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.
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5. Please see my immediately following telegram.
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