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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 15, 1940.

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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 312. The following notes are published for general information.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

12th March, 1940.

NOTES FOR PERSONS WISHING TO COMMUNICATE WITH FRIENDS

IN ENEMY COUNTRIES OR A COUNTRY IN THE OCCUPATION

OF THE ENEMY.

1. Letters should be written in English or German without the address of the sender, and must contain nothing but matter of personal interest. No enclosure of the following nature is permitted--any printed matter, map, plan, sketch, drawing, print, photograph or other descriptive or pictorial representation, or postage or revenue stamp. No reference should be made to any phase of the war. No mention may be made in such letters, of any office of Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., at home or abroad.

2. Communications must be as brief as possible in order to avoid delay in censoring.

3. Letters must be placed in an open envelope fully addressed to the addressee.

4. The envelope containing the letter should be placed in an outer envelope addressed to Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., Secretary's Department, Berkeley Street, Piccadilly, London, W.L., and landed to the Chief Censor, General Post Office Building, Hong Kong, together with a memorandum plainly written, containing in block characters the maine and full address of the sender, and an open addressed envelope for the forwarding of a reply, should one he received from the correspondent. The corres- pondent in Germany should be informed, if he wishes to send a reply, that the reply should be addressed to the sender care of Post Box 601 Amsterdam.

5. When the communication is handed to the Chief Censor payment of $2.00 must be made, which fee will cover,

The postage of que envelope containing one communication to the neutra

country.

2) Postage from the neutral country to the enemy country.

3. In case a reply is sent from the correspondent in the enemy country, the fee also includes postage from the neutral country to Messrs. Cook's Head Office, but not to Hong Kong. The reply will be sent by surface mail from London to Hong Kong, and the cost of this transmission will be collected from the addressee in Hong Kong by the General Post Office.

(4) Letters exceeding one ounce in weight will be subject to an additional

charge.

5) Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., undertake this transaction at the sole risk in all respects of the party requiring their services, and on the express under- standing that no action will lie against them by reason of any act or default on their part or on the part of any person or agent employed by

them.