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TOP SECRET CYPHER TELEGRAM

DESPATCHED BY 0.T.7.

ILMEDIATE:

From:

A.M.S.S.O.

To:

Rptd:

OZ

5423

тоо

301640z

TOD

302210z

J.S.M. Washington..

C.-in-C. B.P.F.) Passed via Admiralty with Admiral Harcourt) T.0.0. 301624z

S.A.C.S.E. A.

C.-in-C. India.

General Carton de Wiɛrt.

GUARD.

COS(H) &4.

30th August 1945.

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Following from Chiefs of Staff.

116/1147/5.

You will have seen the directive issued to Felle/nuts. Admiral Harcourt repeated to you as T.0.0. 301619 This directive is for your own information. You should, however, inform the U.S. Chiefs of Staff that:-

(a) We have appointed Admiral Harcourt C.-in-C. of

the forces of all three Services in Hong Kong. He will be directly responsible to London for the security of the Colony (which includes the New Territories) and for the conduct of the Military Administration Which he has been ordered to establish there.

F 5966/1417/5.

(b) In conformity with our undertaking in COS(W) 69

Admiral Harcourt has been instructed to

provide port and other facilities in, the Colony for the assistance and support of American and Chinese forces in the hinterland.

(c) We are informing Goneralissimo Chiang Kai Shek

of these arrangements.

2.

For your own information it is possible that the Generalissimo may argue that Hong Kong is still within the China theatro, and that he is, therefore, entitled to issuo

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