536 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917.
No. 424. The following United States Cable Censorship Regulations No. 6 are published for general information.
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For Information of the Public.
Cable Censorship Regulations No. 6.
EFFECTIVE ON DATE CENSORSHIP OF ATLANTIC CABLES IS MADE EFFECTIVE.
These Regulations Supersede all Precious Cable Censorship Regulations.
1.---No cablegrams will be accepted for transmission to Germany or to any country assisting Germany in the prosecution of the war.
2.--LANGUAGE. (a) Transatlantic cablegrams must be in plain English or French, or in Italian in the case of telegrams originating in or destined to Italian territory (whether originating in the United States or in transit thru), except that authorized codes (see paragraph 3) may be used in cablegrams to countries co-operating with the United States in the prosecution of the war. In no case, however, is code allowed in cablegrains sent to or from European countries assisting Germany in prosecuting the war.
(b)--Cablegrams to Central and South America, to the West Indies, and to points reached by the Pacific routes, must be written in plain English, French, or Spanish, or in one of these languages translated into one of the codes enumerated in paragraph 3.
3.--CODES. The following authorized codes may be used, conditioned on their - acceptability under the Censorship Regulations in effect in the foreign countries con- cerned. The name of the code shall be written in the check and will be signalled Tree:
I.--A. B. C. 5th.
2. Scott's 10th Edition.
3.--Western Union (not including five letter edition).
4. Lieber's (not including five letter edition).
5. - Bentley's Complete Phrase Code (not including the oil and mining supple-
ments).
6.--Broomhall's Imperial Combination Code.
7.- Broomhall's Imperial Combination Code, Rubber Edition.
8. Meyer's Atlantic Cotton Code, 39th Edition.
9. Riverside Code, 5th Edition.
10. A. Z. (Not authorized on cablegrams to British possessions).
4.ADDRESSES. The address must be complete but code addresses properly regis- tered before July 1, 1914, may be used on transatlantic cablegrams, and code addresses properly registered before January 1, 1917, may be used on all cablegrams not passing over transatlantic cables.
5.-SIGNATURES. -All cablegrams must be signed; in the case of an individual, by the surname at least; in the case of firm or organization by the surname of a responsible member of the firm or officer of the organization, when satisfactory information regard- ing him is on file with the censor; or by an abbreviated signature of two or more words from the incorporated title when understandable (Examples: "Pacific Mail" for The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, "Second National" for the Second National Bank, or "Studebaker Corporation" for The Studebaker Corporation of America). The full name of sender must appear on space provided on blank. Code addresses as signatures are not permitted.
6. --ADDRESS AND SIGNATURE IN FULL-Every sender of a cablegram must place his full name and address on the face of the cablegram, and likewise the full name and address of the addressee. In so far as it relates to authorized code addresses and to signatures, this information will not be considered a part of the cablegram, but is for the information of Censorship.
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