A Government Gazette Extraordinary issued at Hongkong says:—On and after November 1 the following codes will be permitted to be used in telegrams passing between the United Kingdom on the one hand and British Possessions and allied or neutral countries outside European telegraphic system on the other hand:—A.B.C. 5th Edition, Scott's Code 10th Edition, Western Union Cude and Lieber's Code. Messages in private or any ther code not recognized will be stopped. Neither private supplements nor numerical equivalents of phrases in published codes are admissible. It should be remembered that groups or series of numbers and similar expressions (fo- example prices of stocks) are not necessarily admissible because they appear in code. If the decode would not have been passed by Censors neither will the coded message be passed, In every case the name of the code used must be indicated on the form and no charge will be made for the transmission of the name of the code.
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