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TOP SECRET

CIPHER TELEGRAM

15885

068734 9 AUG 1945

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.)

63

From:-

Sacsea.

To:- The War Office.

MOST IMMEDIATE.

Recd. 231500 Aug 45.

D.T.0. 231235 Zo

SAC 19642 cipher 23 Aug. TOP SECRET.

For Anderson from Browning.

Your 68385 (C4) TOO 211900A August. Delay in despatch

of CA Officers for Hong Kong cannot be accepted since they

must arrive Colombo in time to join convoy leaving for Hong

Kong with Commando Brigade about 28 August. Request party

be despatched Colombo immediately with highest priority.

In any case Brigadier MacDougall must be flown out at once

for discussion with Garrison Commander Designate. Signal

arrangements being made and route and aircraft by which

personnel are boing despatched.

C.6. Telograms.

D.M.O.

D. D.M.0.(B).

D.C.A.

D. D. C. A. (MG)(3).

D. D. C.A. (P&T),

Col.C.A.

C.A.4.8.9. M.0.12.

Q(M)8b.

Distribution by C.A.4.

Colonial Office (Mr. Gent), Admiralty (Mr. Valdock).

Dominions Office (Mr. Antrobus).

Foreign Office (Mr.Sterndale Bennett).

Civil Affairs Staff Hong Kong, 2 Park

Street.

Min. of War Tpt (Mr. Wood for D. of S.T).

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