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Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
306 — The High Commissioner for New Zealand (London) to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
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The High Commissioner for New Zealand (London) to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
Reference your telegram of 28 July.2 The following is a repetition of General Freyberg's telegram of 25 July regarding the Transportation units:
Following for Minister of Defence from Freyberg: The Transportation units are prepared to leave the United Kingdom for the Middle East by the end of the month.
I have been asked by the War Office to convey to your Government the following message: ‘Please assure your Government that the units will be sailing in a convoy with a large number of British units and that the Admiralty has accepted the responsibility of providing a proper escort for this large convoy.’
I want to add that they will travel with their equipment, their mechanical transport, and full engineer stores.
2 Not published. This telegram requested General Freyberg's comments on telegrams Nos. 220 and 221 (see Third Echelon) and asked that his telegram of 25 Jul 1940, which had not been received, be repeated.