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DISTRIBUTION OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO BE LIMITED TO THOSE OFFICERS WHO ARE CONCERNED WITH ITS CONTENTS

TOP SECRET

Kordni

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WARNING: This is an unparaphrased version of a secret cypher or confidential code message, and the text must first be paraphrased* if it is essential to communicate it to persons outside British or Allied Government Services.

(*NOTE: Messages shown as having been sent in a One-Time Pad: "O.T.P." are excepted from this rule.)

311215H/August

From N.A. Chungking

Date

Time

I.D.C. by T/P

2/9/45 56251/114/2

CORRECT VERSION

ત

Addressed T.G. 111.02

Repeated: Admiralty, Navy Office E.I., Navy Office B.P.F.

IMPORTANT

My 300955%. Information requested by (? Chinese) before final signature of surrender.

(a) Lists of all land, air and anti-aircraft reserves

showing location and strength in officers and men

(b) Lists of all aircraft, military, naval and civil, giving complete information as to number, type, characteristics, location and (? condition) of such aircraft.

(c) Lists of all Japanese and Japanese controlled naval

vessels, surface, submarino and (? auxiliary patrol) craft in or out of commission and under construction, giving their position and condition.

(d) Lists of, and position and condition of, all Japanese

and Japanese controlled merchant vossals of over (?100) gross tons and in (?or) out of commission and under construction, including (?merchant vessels) formerly bolonging (? to any) of United Nations (?which are) now in Japanese hands.

(e) Complete and detailed information, accompanied by

maps, showing location and layout of all mines, minafielċe and other obstacles to movement by land, sea or air and (?give) safety lanes connected therowith.

(f) Location and description of all Japanese controlled,

or utiliz(?od) or owned, in whole or part, directly or indirectly, factories, plants, shops, roscarch institutions (?laboratorios), testing stations, tochnical data patents, plan drawings and inventions designed or intended to produce or to facilitate production or use of all implements of war and other material and property usod by, or intended for use by, any military or part-military Japanese controlled organization in connexion with its operations.

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