CO129-579-11-1 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940 — Page 71

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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/