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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 10, 1941.

No. 409.

Unless these directions are followed EXACTLY, delay and extra expense will result. These notes convey ALL information available.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

Government Notification No. 312 published in Gazette No. 11 of 15th March, 1940, is cancelled and the following is substituted therefor.

9th April, 1941.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

Notes for persons wishing to communicate with friends in

enemy countries, or territory in the occupation of the enemy.

Authority has been given to permit communication with persons in enemy territories, subject to the following condi- tions.

The territories included in these arrangements are : Belgium, Czecho-slovakia, Danzig, Denmark, France (German- occupied), Germany, Holland, Italy and Italian Possessions, Luxembourg, Norway and Poland (German occupied).

1. Communications must be brief, clearly written or typed on one side of the paper only, and writers should request their correspondents to observe the same rules and not put more than one letter in the same envelope. Erasures and corrections or mutilated stationery and additions by other people are not permitted.

2. Letters and envelopes must omit the sender's address. They may be in English or in the language of the country for which they are intended (except Czech and Hebrew), and must contain nothing but matters of personal interest.

No reference may be made to any town, village, locality or journey, or to the Censorship or to any other phase of the war, or to Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., or any of their offices, or to the means by which the letter is sent. No enclosure of the following nature is permitted: printed matter, map, plan, sketch, drawing, print, photograph, or other pictorial representation, or postage or revenue stamp.

3. Each letter must be placed in an open unstamped envelope fully inscribed to the addressee, who should be asked to address any reply to your full name, care of Post Box 506, LISBON (Lissabon in the case of letters from Germany or German-occupied territory), Portugal. Restante addresses are not accepted. The use of titles or Naval, Military or Air Force rank is forbidden.

4. The envelope open and unstamped and fully inscribed to the addressee containing the letter should be placed in an outer envelope addressed to Thos. Cook & Sons, Ltd., Secretary's Department, Berkeley Street, Piccadilly, London, W.1, and handed to the Chief Censor, General Post Office

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