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TOP SECRET

CIPHER TELEGRAM

073051,

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.)

TOP SECRET

0315

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 Govern Strice$945

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

From: C. in C. Hong Kong.

091720Z/Sept.

N Cypher (D) by W/T.

Addressed: Admiralty for War Office.

IMPORTANT

GUARD

ков лесной

ناسید السلايد

Date 10.9.45.

Recă: 0917

GUARD

Your 071630 (CAL) concur with paragraphs 2 and 3.

They should be

warned however of acute housing, food and transport difficulties in Hong Kong at present. American Consulate has been inspected and is thoroughly looted. Cable communications are extremely limited but are improving.

Hd of M (16) for W.0.

War Office Distribution by C.A.4.

S. of S.

P.U.S.

U.S. of S.

F.M.

A.C.S.

C.I.G.S.

V.C.I.G. S.

A.C. I. c. 5. (0).

D. M. 0.

D.D.M.O. (a) (0).

M.0.1, 12. D.M.I.

D.D.M. I. (I).

M. I. 2, 17.

D.C.A.

D.D. C.A. (M. G.) (3).

Colonel C.A.

C.A.1, 4, 17.

F.5.

SEAC Rear Link (Lt. Col. Carver).

Colonial Office (ir. Gent).

(Mr. Bourdillon).

Foreign Office (Mr. Sterndale-Bermett).

09172OZ

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