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MAT I MEDIATE

Mr. Paskin's compliments.

My dear Ismay,

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23rd August, 19.5.

F6928/1147/-

br. Hall has seen telegram, JM 15 of the 22nd August about the surrender of Hiện, Kong anu the

minutes of Item 2 of the 0.0.3. (45) 203rd Meeting, ale

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dated 22nd August, about the delay in the Japanese surrender. He has asked me to write to you in the following sense a$19 hc is very much worried about the proposals relating to

Hora Longo

In J 15 it is reported that the United States Chiefs of staff consider that the arrangements for the surrender of Hong Kong should be co-ordinated by the British with the Chinese and that their point would not be

ot if they merely passed on to edemeyer our assurance about the subsequent use of the port of Hong Kong. The proposul made in paragraph 4 of J.m.l. 15 16 satisfactory BO

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is 80 fur us it goes but must, in Wr. Hall's opinion, be read in relation to the gencral question of delay. Hr. Hall notes from the minutes of the Chiefs of stuff's meeting mentioned above that the Foreign Ofiice have been asked to tell our Ambassador in Chungking for the information of the Generulissimo, that the British force taking the surrender of Hong Fong has been told to conform to General ac.rthur's orders regarding the date of this surrender which it appeurs will not not be before the 31st August and may well be a few days later. I understand that a telegram in this sense has already been despatched by the Foreign office to Chulaling.

Ar. Hall feels that it is most important that we should get it clearly on the record that our instructions to Amiral Fruser have been given on the clear understanding that Hong Kong will be surrendered to Fritish forces and to nobody else. He would be grateful therefore if the Chiefs

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General Sir Hustings Ismay, F.C.B., D. 2.0.

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