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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).

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From:

War Office

To:

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

69247.......... cipher. C.A.4.

ONE.

TWO.

6024

Desp.250515 Aug 45. D.T.0. 241700/A

24 Aug

SECRET

30 AUG 1945

Ref. C.4.4 cipher 68988 23 Aug.

Hongkong CA Staff will not hero facilities to administer themselves

until main body arrive.

Please arrange for administration by Force proceeding to Hongkong

until they are self contained.

C.6.(Tels).

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Copies to:-

D.M.0.

D.D.M.O. (B)

D.C.A.

D.D.C.A. (G) (3) D.D.C.A. (P & T) Col. (CA)

C.4.4, 8, 9

1.0.12

Q(H)8(b)

Colonial Office

(ir Gent)

Admiralty

(ir Waldock)

Dominions Office

(lir Antrobus)

Foreign Office

(ir Sterndale Bennett, Civil Affairs Staff, Hongkong, 2 Park Street

(5)

Fin. of War Tpt.(x Wood

for D of S.I.

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