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TOP SECRET

CIPHER TELEGRAM

Ente Green 138 Бабат

339311

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.)

1F6042/114)/

From: HQ British Troops in

To:

China.

War Office.

Recd: 211305 Aug.45.

D.T.0.311015 H.

Info: SACSEA

C. in C.India.

IMMEDIATE.

G/1794/S Cipher 21 Aug. TOP SECRET.

For M.0.12.

Request I may be informed immediately of the

plan for reoccupation of Hongkong.

Complicated

questions are arising here on which it is difficult

for me to act without full knowledge.

Two. Have just heard from Ride that Ameri can

plan for Hongkong in which he is participating under my instructions has broken down and he is back in

Kunming. No details yet available.

C.6(Tals)

Distribution by M.0.12.

Copies to:- C.I.G.S.

V.C.I.G.S.

A.C.I.G.S.(0).

D. M.0.

D. D. M.O.(A). (B).

M.0.1. 12.

D. Plans.

G.S. (P).

D. M. I.

D. D. M.I.(I). (P).

M.I.

M. I.2.17.

A.M.C.S. Air Ministry

Head of War Registry, Admiralty.

Foreign Office (Mr.Sterndale Bennett).

Colonial Office (Mr.Gent).

Defence Office.

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