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TOP SECRET CYPHER TELEGRAM
RECEIVED BY 0.T.P.
MOST IMMEDIATE
From:-
M.A. China
To:-
A.M.S.S.O.
IZ
8557
T.0.0. 260300Z
T.0.R. 260857Z
201
1.
M. 1686
20th August, 1945.
Personal for General Ismay from Carton de Wiart. I saw Chiang Kai Shek at his request yesterday evening. He was extremely friendly throughout the interview and told me that he is very pleased that Mr.Attlee had decided to leave me here for the present.
2.
He started off by asking me whether or not I had received any fresh instructions. I told him that I had not, but that I should represent the Prime Minister in the same manner as heretofore.
He then talked of Hong Kong and prefaced his remarks by saying he believed that botween Allies there should be loyalty and co-operation and that he, for his part, was working for this end and he hoped we would recíprocate. He went on to say that he was concerned about the possibility of Communists meeting British Fleet immediate ly on their arrival and representing themselves as the Chinese Government. I assured him that the Embassy here had foreseen
this contingency and were taking appropriate action.
写。
He asked me if we had accepted his offer
of delegating the surrender of Hong Kong and I replied
I did not yet know as I had not then seen F.0. 984.
4.
Chiang Kai Shek then said, and was obviously much perturbed, that he had heard of British ships proposing to enter Chinese ports with a view to sauarding British interests. He said should this take place he could only regard it as a hostile (this assumption may have been indifferent interpreting) act and that the Chinese nation would certainly consider it as tantamount to a desire on our part to acquire Chinese territory. When he asked for my confirmation
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