THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1918.
6. CODE ADDRESS.
(a) Registration of code addresses during the war is not permitted.
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(b) Code addresses are not permitted in cablegrams to or from neutral European countries or their possessions.
(e) Code addresses to Central and South America, while not prohibited in cablegrams from United States territory, are discouraged. If a code address is used, the censor will require a full identification of the addressee, which will often impose on the sender a considerable delay and a greater expense than would have been occasioned by the use of a plain language address in the first instance.
(d) Great Britain and France upon entering the war refused to recognize code addresses registered on or after July 1, 1914. The United States upon entering the war refused to recognize code addresses registered on or after January 1, 1917. Therefore a cablegram to United States territory via British or French censorship must not be addressed to a code address not registered before July 1, 1914: but code addresses registered up to January 1, 1917, may be used on cablegrams between the United States, Cuba, Curaçao, Haiti, Porto Rico, San Domingo, the Virgin Islands, Central and Sonth America (except British, Dutch, and French Guiana and British Honduras), and points reached by the Commercial Pacific cable; that is, Hawaiian Islands, Guam, Philippine Islands, Japan, and China (except Hongkong).
(e) Only one code address for incoming messages may be used by one person or organization; but where there are independent branches of one organization a code address may, with the permission of the Chief Cable Censor, be retained for each
branch.
A code address as signature is not permitted.
7. INFORMATION CONCERNING ADDRESSEE ON CABLE BLANK.
(a) When a code address or any abbreviation of a plain language address is used in a cablegram the full name and full address of the addressee must also be recorded on the blank on which such cablegram is filed. This full address will not be transmitted as a part of the cablegram.
(b) If a cablegram is addressed to an individual acting in behalf of a firm or other organization, the full name and full address of this organization and the addressee's con- nection with it must appear on the blank, as well as the full name and address of the addressee.
NOTE. Full name and full address as used in 7 and 9 shall be understood to mean given name, initials, and surname; street and number, name of office or other building, if any, and room number therein.
8. SIGNATURE,
(a) All cablegrams must be signed.
(b) The signature transmitted should, when considered in connection with the text and the addressee, be such as to identify clearly the sender and distinguish him from any other individual, firm, or organization with a similar name.
(c) The transmitted signature of an individual must consist of the surname at least. (d) The transmitted signature of a firm or organization must be sufficiently complete to identify it clearly. The surname of a responsible member of the firm or officer of the organization may be used, provided satisfactory information regarding him is on file with the Censor.
(e) A. code address as signature is not permitted.
9. INFORMATION CONCERNING SENDER ON CABLE BLANK.
(a) In addition to the signature required in the cablegram, the full name and full address of the sender must be recorded, as supplementary information, on the blank on which each cablegram is filed.
(6) If the cablegram is signed by an individual acting in behalf of a firm or other organization, or by an abbreviated form of the name of that organization, the full name and full address of that organization and the individual's connection with it must also be given on the blank. (See note under 7.)
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