The Under-Secretary explained in March, 1923 that it had been decided to discontinue the practice of forwarding by mail copies of code telegrams sent from the Colonial Office; schedules would henceforth be sent, showing the date and subject of each telegram sent, separate schedules would be compiled for ordinary, secret and confidential telegrams. The subject of the communication is given en clair, even in the case of the last two categories

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