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Cablegram 11 CANBERRA, 6 January 1942, 1.05 a.m.

IMMEDIATE MOST SECRET

Your telegram No. 16 of the 3rd January. [1] Commonwealth
Government agree to the despatch of the sixth and seventh A.I.F.

to Singapore together with corps of troops and maintenance and
base organisations from the Middle East to the Netherlands East
Indies. [2] We assume that adequate measures will be taken for
their security both in respect of naval escorts and air protection
when approaching destination.

1 AA:A3195, 1942, 1.426.

2 This sentence was apparently mutilated in transmission. The
relevant sentence of War Cabinet minute 1667 of 5 January (in
AA:A2673, vol.10) read: 'That the Government agree to the transfer
of the 6th and 7th Divisions from the Middle East to the
Netherlands East Indies, together with Corps troops and
maintenance and base organisations.'

[AA:A2937, FAR EAST POSITION 1942]

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257 Commonwealth Government to U.K. Dominions Office