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141620A August
TO: C. in C. B.P.F. DATE: 14.8.45.
Info: A.C.N.B.
NAVAL CYPHER DD
FROM: Admiralty.
MOST IMMEDIATE
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F5240/14/G
My 141500. Following has been sent from Chiefs of Staff to S.A.C.S.E.A. repeated C. in C., India and J.S.M. as COSSEA 314.
Begins: As soon as Japanese surrender has been accepted by Governments our main tasks will be:-
2.
(a) The re-occupation of key areas of
occupied teritories, in order to secure effective control and to enforce the surrender and disarmament of the Japanese armed forces.
(b) Earliest release of British and Allied prisoners-of-war and internees.
(૨)
Protection of British interests in China. (d) Participation in the occupation of Japan.
In making your plans you should take the following assumption on policy:-
3.
(a). The South West Pacific arca will pass to
British and Australian Command on the Cease Fire.
(b) It is highly important that we should
(0)
accept the surrender of Hong Kong and that we should show the British flag in the main Chinose ports.
We shall take part in the occupation of
Japan with a British Commonwealth force, in which it is proposed each of tho following countries will be represented by a brigade group supported by an air component: Great Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand and probably Canada.
Accordingly, you should make and submit to us plans for operations in the following order of priority; initial moves should not be tolp up
pending/
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