THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917.
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7.--VESSEL'S NAME REQUIRED.--If the message refers to a shipment or to a voyage, the name of the vessel concerned must appear on the message, but will not be considered a part of the cablegram.
8.-CABLEGRAMS WITHOUT TEXT-Will not be passed.
9.-SINGLE WORD CABLEGRAMS.-Will be passed when censor is satisfied of plain English word or when a single code word translates into two or more words understand- able to the Censor.
10. SUPPRESSIONS, DELAYS, ETC.--All cablegrams are accepted at sender's risk, and may be stopped, delayed, or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the censor and without notice to the senders. No information respecting the transmission, delivery, or other disposal of any cablegram, shall be given by paid service, and requests made by mail must be addressed to the telegraph or cable companies and must be passed upon by the censor. Telegraphic or post acknowledgments of the receipt (P. C. or P. C. P. services) are suspended to all countries.
11.----INFORMATION TO SENDERS. -The cable company will notify the station of origin by free service when a message does not conform to the Censorship Regulations. Any explanation of a testword or words, etc., required by the censor from the sender in the United States or Canada shall be obtained by a collect message from the censor to the sender and by a paid reply from the sender of the cablegram.
12.--CODED CABLEGRAMS.-Filed directly at cable offices where a cable censor is stationed, as at New York, Key West, Galveston and San Francisco, should be accom- panied by a translation, and if it is certified by some responsible member of a firm it will tend to expedite the transmission of the message.
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FIGURES.-Unrelated numbers or code words which translate into unrelated numbers are prohibited, except as set out in paragraph 14.
14.--SERIAL NUMBERING OF CABLEGRAMS.--Will be permitted under the following conditions: Cablegrams may be numbered from one to nine hundred and ninety-nine inclusive, in plain figures or authorized code translating into plain figures, but the serial number must begin with number one on the first day of each month. At option of the sender, two additional figures may be added to serial number, indicating the day of the month, and these figures may be in plain figures or in antliorized code translating into figures, but on the first nine days of the month the numeral shall be preceded by a zero. The serial number, when used, shall be the last word in the message preceding the signa- ture. Nothing herein requires any cablegrams to have a serial number.
15.-TESTWORD.(a)--In order to safeguard the interests of responsible individuals and organizations transmitting money by cable, the use of testwords will be permitted, and to relieve them of the necessity for furnishing copies of their systems of testwords, affidavit will be accepted to cover the use of such testwords.
(b)—Organizations and individuals desiring to use testwords to authenticate their messages and to act as a check on the amount of money transmitted, must furnish to the Chief Cable Censor, Navy Department, Washington, an affidavit sworn to before a properly constituted authority covering substantially the following allegations :--
"The testword will be the first word in the body of the message. Such test- word will have no other meaning or use than that of authenticating the amount of money transmitted or that of preventing fraud by unauthorized payments of money.'
(e)—A testword is permitted in any cablegram addressed to or sent by a bank, firm or other organization which has qualified by complying with the regulations herein prescribed.
(d)-Foreign firms are privileged to qualify if they so desire, but even though not qualified they may use testwords when addressing qualified banks, firms, or other organizations.
(e) Qualification of an American firm, bank or other organization will include its foreign branches.