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PARAPHRASE TELEGRAL. from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Officer Administering the Government of
hongkong.
(Sent 5.20 p.m. 15th November, 1917)
With reference to your telegram 30th October cipher Foreign Office state it is considered essential
in the national interests that embargo on telegrams
to and from Dutch territory should be maintained, but that arrangements have been made by the censorship authorities to pass telegrams which are thought to be
in British or Allied interests. 15th November.
LONG.