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From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1945

The following excerpts were taken from the first post-war editions of the combined South China Morning Post and the Hongkong Telegraph, printed by George Wood Giffen for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Ltd at 1-3 Wyndham Street, city of Victoria, in the colony of Hong Kong.

August 30: The first communique from the Hong Kong Government to the people of Hong Kong since December 1941 read in part: 'Rear Admiral Harcourt is lying outside Hong Kong with a very strong fleet.

'Admiral Harcourt will enter harbour having transferred his flag to the cruiser Swiftsure which will be accompanied by destroyers and submarines.

'The capital ships will follow as soon as a passage has been swept.

'The formal surrender is likely to follow the proceedings at Tokyo.'

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