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should be suppressed or not. The Assistant Censors work in
shifts of six hours at a stretch. The Cable Companies have given every facility to the Censors. The censorship, as far as the conveyance of information to the enemy at Tsingtau, his base in the Far East, is concerned must be largely prejudiced
by the fact that a spy in Hongkong could easily send a message by hand to one of the Chinese Telegraph Offices in Canton for
transmission over the Chinese land lines. Or a spy residing in
Canton could easily obtain through Chinese or other sources
information from Hongkong and transmit it in the same way. The same remarks apply to Macao where there is also a Chinese
Telegraph Office.
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At the same time censorship of suspected postal
matter was instituted and gradually developed. There is now the
following staff engaged in this work:-
Mr. E.D.C.Wolfe. Mr. H. Dixon. Mr.A.J.Reed. Mr. T H Martin. Mr. C.J.Poole. Mr. R.Gutierrez. Mr. EJ.F.Gomes.
Mr. G.P.de Martin Mr. FJ.de Rome. Rex .C.Bone.
Post Office Staff.
Interpreters.
Not in the Postal Service.
It is not possible of course to censor the whole of the enormous Chinese correspondence that passes between Hongkong, Canton and Macao, nor indeed all the large European correspondence between
these places.
8.
The instructions contained in your telegram of
the 4th instant regarding precautions to be taken by British Shipping was immediately communicated to the Reporting Officer
and to the Commodore.
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9.
Your telegram of the 4th instant instructing me to be on my guard against sudden attack in advance of formal declaration of war was received on the same date, and was at once communicated to the General Officer Commanding the Troops
and
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