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BE WRITTEN IN

THIS MARGIN.

Registry

No.F 6066/1147/G

Draft.

Colonel Price,

Cabinet Offices.

Immediate

Top Secret

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September 1945.

Dear Price,

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you

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I have been instructed to draw your

the

of the Chiefs of Staff tention to Chungking telegram No. 988

(from Mr.Sterndale

Bennett).

Changing Tel 977

Copy to

about the date of the formal surrender at

Hong Kong.

2. On general grounds and for the par-

ticular reasons connected with our commercial

interests in China itself, to which Sir H.

Seymour drew attention in paragraph 5 of his

telegram No. 984, it is obviously desirable to

to the act in harmony with Chiang Kai-shek as far as unaximum axdint that is possible

993 Hopet

Mr. Gent,

Colonial Office.

Jestemadute Bennett

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we een without prejudicing any essential

interest in Hong Kong itself. From this point

love

of view there seems/no objection in principle

to arranging for the surrender to take place

after the main surrender of the Chinese forces

within China to Chiang Kai-shek.

3. Nevertheless, there are certain

points to which the Foreign Office feel bound

to draw the attention of the Chiefs of Staff

so that the latter may consider whether any

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safeguarding action is required. It is

possible that Chiang Kai-shek's attitude

over the surrender in Hong Kong is not merely

a question of immediate prestige, but is

the Generalissimo.

designed to give Chiang Kai shek â basis for

in Hong Kong

maintaining, after the surrender that he

must continue to direct and supervise the

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implementation of the surrender.in Hong Kong.

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