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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

313 Mr V. G. Bowden, Official Representative in Singapore, to Department of External Affairs

Cablegram 98 SINGAPORE, 31 January 1942, 11.09 a.m.

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All British forces withdrawn from peninsula to Singapore Island last night following which Johore Causeway was blown up.

BOWDEN

[AA:A981, WAR 49, i]

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