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TOP SECRET

CIPHER TELEGRAM

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.)

Recd. 231210 Aug 45.

From:-

To:-

Sacsea.

D.T.0. 230637 Z.,

The War Office.

F.5886

IMMEDIATE.

SAC 19583 cipher 23 Aug.

TOP SECRET

AUG 1945

For CA4. Pass following to MacDougall.

From HQ British Troops in China.

Message begins.

3000 to 5000 Piculs Rice to be sent Hong

Kong immediately after official surrender. be arranged by BAAG MACAO Agent if required.

C.6. Telegrams,

Distribution by C.A.17

To:- C.A.17 (for action).

*

D.E.(CA)

Copies to:-

D.D. E. (IT)

C.A.17(6).

D. E. (CA) (Registry)

Q(Ops)1

Q.M.G.F.

D.D.F.Mov (M)

Q(M)9b(2)

̄S.T.6Þ(CA)(4)

Can

Min of Food (Mr. Jenner)(3)

(1

(Mrs Meyrick-Brown)

(Mr. D.O'Neill)

(2)

M.W.T., (Mr. 0. Webb)

Foreign Office (r. Sterndale Bennett)

Colonial Office (r. Mayle)

(Lt.Col.Chalmers)

Note by C.A.17.

23 Aug.

Advance copy passed to Hong Kong Planning Unit on

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