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MOST 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).

FROM:

WAR OFFICE

TO :

C-in-C Middle East

..69669........cipher (C.A.4)

For Air Priorities Board.

War Office.

27 Au 45

• SEPT.

D.T.0 271740/4 Desp. 71930 1945

MOST IMMEDIATE

TOP SECRET

/F6142/1147/10

Ref C.-in-C ME aipher-41502 af 27 Aug to in Personal to DCA

Chief of Staff SACSEA/has requested arrival this party

COLOMBO by 28 Aug to catch convoy.

Please do your utmost to expedite

onward passage.

C.6.Telegrams.

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Copies to:-

D.M.O.

D.D.M.O (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.

Colonial Office (Mr.Gent)

Admiralty (r. Waldook)

Dominions office (Mr.Antrobus)

8

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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