OVERSEAS TELEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 87, 6 January 1940, Page 10

OVERSEAS TELEGRAMS

Codes For Empire And Foreign Countries CONDITIONS OUTLINED The Controller of Censorship announced yesterday that overseas telegrams in the four public codes (Beni.ley’s Complete Phrase, Bentley’s Second Phrase, ABO 6th and Peterson’s 3rd) will be acceptable as from Monday, January 8, for all Empire countries withi the following exceptions:— Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, code not allowed; Apia, Bentley’s Complete Phrase only admitted; British West Indies and Burma, only the two Bentley’s Codes admitted; Niue, Nukualofa and Rarotonga, Bentley’s Complete Phrase only allowed; South Africa, only the two Bentley’s Codes admitted. Telegrams in the codes mentioned are also acceptable as from January 8 for foreign countries (except enemy countries and countries in enemy occupation) which admit code telegrams. Non-Empire countries to which telegrams in code language arc not permitted are as follows: —

Argentine, Chile, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, French colonies, Iraq, Latvia (Lettonia), Portuguese colonies, Rumania, Sweden. In respect of France, and the French Zone of Morocco, Bentley’s Complete Phrase and Peterson’s 3rd Edition codes only are allowed. In telegrams in the authorized codes for Denmark, the abbreviation for the code used must appear in the preamble as well as at the beginning of the text, the abbreviation in the text to be paid for. The conditions of acceptance of telegrams in code apply generally whether the code telegrams be destined for British or foreign countries. Such conditions are that, in addition to the code used being indicated, a translation either on the back of the form or on a separate sheet of paper accompanying the telegram mpst be supplied; Hie use of numerical equivalents or spare word additions for framing a private code is not permitted: all messages must be capable of being so decoded as to have a meaning clear to the censor; only one of the codes specified may be used in any one telegram; each outward code telegram will be subject to a surcharge of 1/-. which applies in all cases and is imposed to offset to some extent the cost of transmission of the translations from accepting offices to censorship stations, and other expenditure incurred in tlie provision of decoding staff.