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PZ 2123/40 'Wartime censorship: intercepted letters' [‎3v] (6/22)

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The record is made up of 1 file (9 folios). It was created in 12 Apr 1940-5 May 1941. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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sSS^i 1 " 40 1B.II.1940.
334-4003
O.’he Boyal Ministry of Boots,
Telegraphs aHh Telepiiones,
k iboul * Afghanistan.
Dear•Sirs,
e are much obliged for your telegram Jf the
13/11-40 running as follows;
M refer your telegram 9/9 fuses not received by
post stop ask original postoffice in Stockholm
wire result”• . . . . ,
-Q*i account
follows:
of this telegram we wired you to-day as
. - ; a**«>
n your telegram 13/11 we have delivered ne.v
fuses to kharidari berlin beginning October
to be forwarded to j^abon!” •
Immediately on receipt of your telegram of 9/9-40 we
made inquiries at the General Bost-Offioe of Stockholm
and asked for necessary information about the fuses
which we sent you per registered letter on the 7/8-40.
already a few weeks after we got the answer that the
letter had been lost, they could, however, not give
any particulars as to tjhe way of its disappearance*
d made, therefore, arrangements for sending you new
fuses, and as we supposed that the Burchasing Office
ifHerlin had better possibilities to forward the parcel
to you, we sent it to Berlin* These new fuses are
delivered free of cost for the office in Berlin.
Kr. Abdullah xvhan will most likely taice these fuses
with him, when he goes to kaboul via Moscow one of
these days.
e regret very much the difficulties which at present
p: e vent the delivery of material to Afgh anistan, and
hope/
•*. n

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This file contains various excerpts from, and full translations of, letters sent during the Second World War and intercepted by the Government of India. The file includes:

  • a letter from a member of staff from LM Ericsson relating to the sale and shipping of fuses to the Royal Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones in Kabul
  • an excerpt of a letter from an employee of the Ministry of Public Works in Kabul about the working experience of European staff
  • a letter from Willi Berger of Kabul regarding the export of goods after the war
  • a letter from the Ottoman Bank to Banke Millie in Kabul which includes a telegraphic key and cipher.

The letters are forwarded between government officials including the Chief Censor for India; the General Staff Branch (Censor Section) at the Army Head Quarters in India; Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge (the Under-Secretary to the Government of India); and HM Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkey.

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1 file (9 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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