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CIPHER TELEGRAM

SERMOTORETY AL CIVIL ETTAES

C.A.4.

- 7 OCT 1945

This message will not be distributed outside British Government Departments or Headquarters or re-transmitted, even in cipher, without being parseFFICE

(Messages marked O.T.P. need not be paraphrased

From:

War Office

20:

C. in C. Hong-Kong

Britchin( for Ambassodor for information Britchin

telegram 1175 of 25 Sep F.0. to Chungking refers

DTO041.030

/A

ILIPORTANT

77657..

cipher C.A 4.

SECRET

1.

Subject is opening of Chinese Consulate in Hong-Kong.

Our 071630/Sep and your 091720/Sep refor.

2. Please do not repeat not approach Chinose on this question.

Most important that they should not receive information prior

to official notification through diplomatic channel.

War Office Distribution by C.A.4.

S. of S.

P.U.S.

U.S. of S. F.I.

. C. S.

C. I.G.S. V.C.I.G.S. L. C. I. G. 5. (0) D.1.0. D.D.M.C.(.)(3)

E.0.1, 12

D.. I.

M. I. (1)

1. I. 2, 17

D. C. A.

D. D. C... (MG) (3) Col. (CLL) C.1, 4, 17 F.5.

Scac Rear Link

(Lt. Col. Carver) Colonial Office

(Mr.Gent) (Telegraph Sec)

Foreign Office(fr.Sterndale-Bonnott)

(Mr.Kitson)

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