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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W. 1.,
21st November, 1939.
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Dear Andrews,
As I explained on the telephone, before receipt
of your letter Secret No. 53838/40/39, of the 16th
November, we had been on the point of writing to
you to say that we shared the view of Sir A. Clark
Kerr, conveyed in telegram No. 134, of the 12th
November, from the Commercial Secretary, Hong Kong,
that the Chinese official cyphers which were seized
in the raid on the illegal wireless station on the
premises of the Chinese Central Trust at Hong Kong
should be returned to the Chinese Government with as
little delay as possible.
not is now
I understood you to say that the Governor is/now
sending these cyphers, but only reproductions of them,
and we hope therefore that the cyphers can now be
returned to the Chinese Government.
I may add that the Code and Cypher School consider
that it would be sufficient for their purposes if the
specimens referred to in telegram No. 382, of the 2nd
N. F. S. Andrews, Esq.
November/