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instructions and orders will be limited to those necessary for effective coordination of forces in the
execution of your mission.
 
     14.  Relations with ABDA Governments. -
 
               The ABDA Governments will jointly and severally support you in the execution of
the duties and responsibilities as herein defined, and in the exercise of the authority herein
delegated and limited. Commanders of all sea, land and air forces within your Area will be
immediately informed by their respective governments that, from a date to be notified, all orders
and instructions issusd by you in conformity with the provisions of this directive will be
considered by such commanders as emanating from their respective governments.
 
          15.  If any of your immediate subordinates, after making due repreSentations to you,
still considers that obedience to your orders would jeopardize the national interests of his country
to an extent unjustified by the general situation in the ABDA Area, he has the right, subject to
your being immediately notified of such intention, to appeal direct to his own government before
carryring out the orders. Such appeals will be made by the most expeditious method and a copy of
the appeal will be communicated simultaneously to you.
 
     16.  Staff  and Assumption of Command. -
 
              Your staff will include officers of each of the ABDA powers. You are empowered to
communicate immediatoly with the national commanders in the Area with a viev to obtaining staff
officers essential to your earliest possible assumption of command. Your additional staff
requirements will be communicated as soon as possible to the ABDA Goverhments through
channels of communication described in paragraph 18.
 
     17.  You will report vhen you are in a position effectively to
carry out the essential functions of Supreme Command, so that your assumption of command may
be promulgated to all concerned.
 
     18.  Superior Authority. -
 
               As Supreme Commander of the ABDA Area you will be directly responsible to the
ABDA Governments through the agency defined in Annex 2.
 
                              Signed
 
                                   (By Power furnishing Supreme                                     Commander)
 
 
 
 
Countersigned:
 
     Other ABDA Representatives.
 
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