Registry No.
10 F4237/888/10
A.L.S.
1576 Drag. Ps.
Mr. Floud,
Ministry/of
Information.
(From/Mr. Scott)
Cable & Airways
Section (M.
Callender)
Dear
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Floud.
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F.0.
16 June
1942.
Thanks for your letter FP.47/143 of 5th
June in connexion with communications between
this country and missionaries in China.
You are right in supposing that it would be
illegal for any person in this country to address
any communication to another person in enemy
or enemy-occupied territory c/o a third person
in Allied or neutral territory unless the
third person had been duly authorised to act in
can be that capacity. I gather that this done by
a
the issue of a notice by our Secretary of State
and of an authority to the Postmaster General
to accept such correspondence through the post
for transmission to enemy or enemy-occupied
territory.
The real difficulty in connexion with postal
communications with China is the inability to
delimit accurately the area of occupied and Free
China respectively, and it is true that within
the Post Office definition of occupied China
there is a relatively large part of territory
which is in fact not actually in Japanese
occupation. An accurate definition of occupied
China, however, is somewhat impracticable
owing to lack of the necessary information
together with the fluctuating nature of Japanese
occupation.
As I see it, there are two aspects of the
problem: (a) that relating to territory which is
known to be occupied by the Japanese, and (b)
that relating to territory about which we have
NOTHING
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