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C.0.S. (45) 210th mty of 30/8

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SURRENDER OF HONG KONG

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C.0.S.(45) 209th Meeting, Minute

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THE COMMITTEE took note of two telegrams from Chungking to the Foreign Office and of the Foreign Office reply to Chungking on the subject of negotiations between His Majesty's Government and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on the machinery of surrender for Hong Kong: and of a telegram from C.-in-C. British Pacific Fleet stating that he was entering Hong Kong with cruisers and destroyers at 0515Z on 30th August.

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