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

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

MOST SECRET

All British forces withdrawn from peninsula to Singapore Island last night following which Johore Causeway was blown up.

BOWDEN

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[AA:A981, WAR 49, i]