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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1918.

10. TEXT.

Cablegrams that include only address and signature with no text are not permitted, and single word cablegrams will be passed only when their meaning is clear to the

Censor.

11. LANGUAGE.

All cablegrams must be in plain language, either English or French, or in one of the 10 codes authorized in paragraph 12 below, except as follows:-

(0) Italian is permitted for cablegrams originating in or destined for Italy, Libya (Tripoli), and Italian possessions in East Africa.

(b) Spanish is permitted between the United States, Central and South America, (except British Honduras and British Guiana), Cuba, Haiti, San Domingo, Porto Rico. the Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Hawaiian Islands, Guam, the Philippine Islands, Japan and China (except Hongkong); and also between Spain and Portugal on the one hand and Cuba, Porto Rico and Central and South America, (except British Honduras and British Guiana), on the other hand.

12. CODES.

(a) The use of code to or from neutral European countries and their possessions is not permitted.

(b) With this exception, United States cable censorship permits the use, conditioned on their acceptability under the regulations in effect in the foreign censorships concerned, of the following authorised codes:-

1. A. B. C. Fifth Edition (not including five-letter edition).

2. Scott's Tenth Edition.

3. Western Union (not including five-letter edition).

4. Lieber's (not including five-letter edition).

5. Bentley's (not including Oil and Mining Supplements).

6. Broomhall's Imperial Combination Code.

7. Broomhall's Imperial Combination Code, Rubber Edition.

8. Meyer's Atlantic Cotton Code, Thirty-ninth Edition.

9. Riverside Code, Fifth Edition.

10. A. Z.

(c) Not more than one code is permitted in any one cablegram.

(d) The name of the code used shall be written on the face of the cablegram, but will not be charged for.

(e) The use of private codes is prohibited.

13. INFORMATION REQUIRED BY CENSOR IN REGARD TO SPECIFIC CABLEGRAMS.

(a) Information required by the censor from a cable user in the United States or Canada in regard to a specific cablegram will be obtained when necessary by a collect telegram from the censor to the cable user and by a paid reply from the cable user.

(b) Cablegrams filed at stations of censorship:

When a cablegram is filed directly at a cable office where a station of censorship is located (as in New York, San Francisco, Galveston, or San Juan), the censor's action will be facilitated if the cablegram is filed in duplicate and a full written explanation of the message is given, particularly in the case of cablegrams containing numbers.

This explanation, it must be understood, is not available to foreign censors, and difficulty will more certainly be avoided if the text of the cablegram is clear in itself.

If the cablegram so filed at the cable office is in authorized code or foreign language, it will tend to minimize delay if a translation, also in duplicate and certified as to its correctness by the sender, accompanies it.

14. SHIPPING.

Shipping cablegrams concerning neutral vessels (not chartered to Allied firms) should always contain the name of the vessel. In no case will a shipping cablegram be passed where the identity of the vessel is not made clear to the censor.