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TOP SECRET CYPHER TELEGRAM

RECEIVED BY 0.T.P.

F6112/110/G

MOST IMMEDIATE.

From: J.S.M. Washington.

To:-

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4. M. S.S.U.

IZ. 8486

TOO. 232237Z

TOR. 23231OZ

JSM 17

23rd August, 1945

Further JSM 16.

Following is the text of instructions which the United States Chiefs of Staff have to-day issued to wedemeyer and MacArthur for action.

Repeated to Nimitz, wheeler, Spaatz and us for

information.

BEGINS.

The British Chiefs of Staff state that military co-ordination on operational matters is being effected by them. Wedemeyer is directed to inform MacArthur when military co-ordination with him and with the Chinese Board of Military Operations is completed by the British, at which time MacArthur will arrange for the surrender of Hong Kong to the British. In this connection the British desire that the surrender should be made to a British Commander to be nominated by Admiral Fraser. The British Chiefs of Staff further state that they will give full facilities through the Hong Kong area, so far as the conditions of the port allow, for the assistance and support of Chinese and American forces who may still be either engaged against the enemy or involved in securing the surrender of Japanese forces in the hinterland.

2.

ENDS.

You will observe that the United States Chiefs of Staff have not repeated the substance of the Generalissimo's

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