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Paraphrase of CYPHER Telegram
From
SECRETARY OF STATE.
· 460
To
GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.
Date
30th July, 1915.
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Your cypher telegram of 24th July and my telegram of 5th
July. In future you should stop all telegrams to enemy subjects in
countries covered by the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation of 25th
June, and any telegram to British, allied or neutral subjects in
those countries should be censored carefully and, if found to con-
tain anything undesirable or suspicious, stopped.
As for mails all bags whether sealed or no should be opened
and examined with care. All letters to enemy subjects should be
stopped and all correspondence for British, allied or neutral sub-
jecta, if containing anything suspicious or undesirable, stopped.
No correspondence of any sort should be forwarded to enemy
post offices in China.
Any information which seems likely to be of interest to
any department of H.K.'s Government shoud, if found in examination
of letters or telegrams, be communicated promptly and by telegraph
if specially urgent to that department and to any of H.B.M's repre- sentatives or Consular Officers to whom it may be of use.
Under the present circumstances any information of commer- cial activity, organization or success of enemy firms in their
attempts to continue trade under name of neutral employee or agent
or of a sham neutral company or of attempts by British firms to
maintain relations with enemy firms is of special interest.
Special importance is attached by the Foreign Office to a
thorough and careful censorship of all correspondence at the present
time.
I will give replies to your questions in your cypher
telegram of 13th July at the earliest possible moment.
BONAR LAW
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