CO129-579-11-1 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940 — Page 76

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Secret.

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16 November, 1939.

26. 10. 39.

2. 11. 39.

16. 10. 39. Extract.

Dear Ashley-Clarke,

With reference to the Governor of Hong

Kong's Very Secret despatch of October 13th, a copy of

which was sent to you on November 2nd, on the subject

of the police raids on the remises of the Central

China Trust in Kowloon, I am sending you copies of an

exchange of telegrams with the Governor arranging for

the code books and intercepted telegrams to be sent to

this country by safe hand: the first of these has

already been sent to the Foreign office officially.

We made this request at the suggestion of the

War office as the Government Code and Cypher School

are apparently very interested and would like to have

an opportunity of examining them. In due course the

code books will be sent back to the Governor.

I also enclose copies of further correspondence

on the disclosures resulting from the raid, which we

H. ASHLEY-CLARKE, ESO.

have