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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),,

Inte

Recd.

074994.

241100 Sep

F 7583

From: C. in C. Hong Kong.

DTO 221134.29 OEP 1945

To:-

The War office.

IMMEDIATE

No 8 cipher 22 Sep.

RESTRICTED,

For Civil Affairs.

Since all Colonial persoonel are being repatriated earliest administrative machinery will break down unless early replacements are urgently forthcoming. In the meantime following personnel for Rear Party should be sent out immediately by air with operational priority. Wormal Copperthwaite Danby Davis Miss Bond Miss Beird,

and two experienced confidential secretaries.

Grateful if their TD can be advised early.

C.6.Telegrams.

P.U.S.

D.C.A.

D. of E.

To:- C.A.9.

C.4.10.) (for action)

Copies to:-

D.D.C.A.(P. & T.).

D.D.C...(M.G.).

Col. (C.A.)

D.E.(C.4.).

C.A.1, 4, 9, 17.

C.10.

Q(M) 8(b).

S.D.5.

M.0.12.

Foreign Office (Mr. Scott F.E.Dept). Colonial Office (Mr.Gont)

C.A.Starf (Hong Kong) 2 Park St. W.1.

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