CO129-579-11-1 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940 — Page 37

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9th February, 1940.

Dear Steel,

In your secret letter to Lee of the

14th of October, 1939, you asked that the code

books and intercepted telegrams dealing with

the discovery of an unauthorised wireless

telegraphy set in Hong Kong (Governor's telegram

to Colonial Office No. 307 of 26th September, 1939)

should be sent home for examination by the Code

and Cipher School. We have now received them from

Hong Kong, and I enclose a copy of the Governor's

despatch which covers them.

You will remember also the Governor's

telegram No. 382 of the 2nd of November, a copy of

which was sent to you on the 17th of November, in

which he referred to the great mass of documents

which had been seized, and said that if further

material was required to be sent home we should

MAJOR C. D. STEEL.

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