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54 

55 

56 

57 

58 

Question wheather money found 

with the German Consular Staff at 

Calcutta was Nazi Party 

Propaganda fund . Decision that 

the Staff should be allowed to 

take with them the ammounts 

standing to their respective 

Names. 

Complaint of the Afghan 

Government that their telgrams 

are being delayed in India. 2. His 

Majesty`s Minister, Kabul Afghan 

Government that all private 

telegrams ariginating or 

terminating in India must be in 

English a French. 

Request from Consul General for 

France at Calcutta, for permission 

to exp. Jute to France for the use 

of the French Army. 

Progs., Nos. 11(4)-W, 

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1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 

Draft Defence of India Ordinance 

and Rules. Revision of Rules 1-17, 

31-44 of the First Schedule and 9- 

13 of the Second Schedule of----. 

Meetings of the Drafting Sub- 

Progs., Nos. 140-W, 

Committee of the War Legislation 

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1939 (Secret) (A) 

Committee to discuss the revision 

of the Rules. Recommendation of 

the Committee regarding War 

Book measures which should be 

introduced in the event of :- 

War Book (India)-Chapter I 

India`s position under the 

optional Clause of Permanent 

Court of International Justice 

League of Nations. Optional 

Clause and General Act. 

which information concerning 

German civilian internees is to be 

transmitted to their own Govt., by 

Prisoners of War Information 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 58-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (B) 

List complied from the website of the Ministry of External Affairs, Public Diplomacy division. 

For more details visit http://www.indiandiplomacy.in/NationalArchive.aspx

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59 

60 

61 

62 

63 

64 

65 

66 

Bureau. 

Release of Civil and Ministerial 

Service Officers for Military 

Service. 

The Political Officers concerned 

asked to Supply External Affairs 

Department with copies of all 

general orders issued under the 

delegated authority 

Meeting of the Departmental War 

Committee. Action taken by E. A. 

Department in regard to matters 

concerning them. 

Control of foreigners in War. 

Modification of the Policy 

regarding treatment of enemy 

aliens (including missionaries 

women etc.) Repatriation of 

German Subjects at liberty. 

Instruction regarding the 

treatment to be accorded to 

Italian and Japanese Subjects 

during the War. 


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1939 

Progs., Nos. 26-W, 1939 

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(Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 55-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 71-W, 1939 WAR 1939 


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1939 (Secret) 

Enquiry from the Swiss Consul at 

Bombay incharge of German 

interests regarding Conditions for 

forwarding news about the 

Whereabouts and welfare of 

German Internees in India, to 

their relatives in enemy 

territories. Settlement of the 

question between the Home 

Department and the Consul direct. 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

58(2)-W, 

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The Japanese Consul General 

Informed that the Govt. of India is 

unable to exempt the Nippon 

trade Agency at Calcutta from 

executing a fidelity bond for 

obtaining permits to send postal 

articles out of India. 

Progs., 

1939 

Nos. 23(3)-W, 

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Compilation by the Defence Coordination 

Department, of a 

Progs., Nos. 83-W, 1939 WAR 1939 



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67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

register of European British 

Subjects ; and that of voluntary 

offers from officials and nonofficials, 

to serve the Government 

in connection with the war. 

Postal censorship. Procedure and 

arrangements for postal 

censorship in States having their 

own postal system. 

Complaint by H.M.`s Minister 

Kabul regarding the nonacceptance 

by the Kabul 

Telegraph Office of Cypher 

telegrams from H.M.`s Legation 

Afghan Govt. and other Foreign 

Missions in Kabul. Question of 

strengthening of the Govt. 

telegraph Office Peshawar to cope 

with the Increased telegraph 

traffic. 

Progs., Nos. 57-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret 

Complaints by the Consul General 

for Italy at Bombay against the 

censorship of two envelopes 

addressed to him in the Italian Progs., Nos. 95-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

language by the Ministry of Public (Secret) 

Culture in Italy and the 

Government of Italian Somaliland, 

respectively. 

Refusal to request of the Consul 

for Iraq at karachi for the grant of 

concessions under the Telegraph 

and Postal Censorship. 

Progs., Nos. 14(24)-W, 

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1939(Secret) 

I. Application of the Defence of 

India Ordinance, 1939 (V of 1939) 

and the rules thereunder to the 

Kashmir State. 2. Arrangements 

for the trial of Europeans, 

Americans, etc., by the Kashmir 

Residency Courts under the British 

Indian Law as applied. 


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1939 (Secret) (A) 

1939 

4. Decision that the Defence of 

India Rules, which were made 

under the Defence of India 

Progs., Nos. 24(12)-W, 

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1939 (Secret) (B) 



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73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

Ordinance, 1939, will remain in 

force as if made under section 2 

of the Defence of India Act, 1939 

and will not require to be 

republished. 

Complaint by the Iraqi Govt. , 

received through British Embassy, 

Bagdad , regarding the censorship 

Progs., Nos. 14(27)-W, 

ofa Letter addressed to the Iraqi 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

MInister for Foreign affairs by the 

Consul General for Iraq at 

Bombay. 

Decisions of H.M. s Government to 

Examine ; owing to State of war 

with the gratuity , certain sea 

Borne mails on Ships calling at or Progs., Nos. 14(26)-W, 

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diverted to British Ports in order 1939(Secret)(A) 

to asceratin that they do not 

contain articles of contracted or 

Obnoxious documents. 

Certain Political Officers of the 

External Affairs Deptt. Informed 

that any act of hostility or outrage 

by ill-disposed persons, or any 

Progs., Nos. 37-W, 1939 

other important matter, including 

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(Secret) 

naval, military or air matters 

bearing on the was emergency be 

brought to the notice of the Home 

Deparment direct, by telegram. 

Summaries of Important action 

prepared by the Defence Co- 

Ordination Department. 

Retention of the Services of M. 

Esnault (A Frenchman) By the 

Assam Oil Co., Digboi until the 

Arrival of His Substitute. 

War Book (India). Amendments to 

: - List of members, and annual 

reports, of the War Book (India) 

Committee. Defence Department 

list of Committees and Sub- 

Committees with their 

composition and terms of 

Progs., Nos. 15-W, 1939 

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Secret 


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1939 


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1939 (Secret) 



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79 

80 

81 

82 

83 

84 

85 

reference. List showing measures 

which should be taken by the 

External Affairs Department prior 

to the War Stage. 

Restrictions and Suspension of the 

Unofficial and telephone traffic 

during an emergency List of 

authorities with E.A. Department 

whose telegrams and telephone 

calls relating to emergency will 

take Procedure. 

Representatives, it can be 

obtained by references made to 

India Office or Secretary of State 

for India. 

Permission accorded to the Consul 

General for France to Send his 

official mails to the Ministry of 

Foreign Affairs at Paris as Freight 

by Pilots of the Air France 

aeroplanes and to the consul 

General for the Netherlands and 

the Netherlands Indies through 

the Pilots of K.L.M. Air Service , 

Under Certain conditions. 

Contributions to His Excellency the 

Viceroy`s War Purposes Fund. 

Daily Summary of operation 

during the War in 1939. 


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1939(Secret) 


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1939 (Secret) (B) 


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1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 63-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 61(11)-W, 

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1939 (Secret) 

Protest received from the 

japanese Embassy , London 

through the India Office , London , 


againest the Opening by Censor of 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret)(B) 

registerred letter addressed to the 

Embassy by the Japanese Consul 

General, Simla. 

Refusal to the proposed visit of 

Mr. Mazotta, Clerk Italian 

Legation, Kabul, to Bombay, to Progs., 

see Madame Heilmann, wife of Dr. 1939 

Josef Heilmann, a German 

internee in India. 

Nos. 36(3)-W, 

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86 

87 

88 

89 

90 

91 

92 

United Kingdom of enlishting for 

some form of national Service of 

certain officers on leave pending 

retirement, in England. Decision 

Progs., Nos. 54-W, 1939 

that necessary action will be taken 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (B) 

by the Political Department in 

regard to Political and Medical 

Service Officers attached to the 

External Affairs Deptt. 

Inauguration of short wave world 

programme by the Australian 

Broadcasting Commission from 

20th December, 1939. 

Recomendations of the Alien 

Standing committee for Eupulsion 

of Dr. Horst C. Pohle , a German 

national and Interment of Saif 

Azad Alias Shaikh Abdul Rahman 

Sib an Iranian Subject 2. Report 

of Sub committee constructed to 

enamine Dosicers of certain 

Forigners. 

Complaint by the Afghan Consul 

General as regard the non 

acceptance by the Central Afghan 

Telegraph Office , Karachi of 

aCypher telegram Sent by Afghan 

Consul, Karachi. 

Exemption from Service with the 

French Army of Monsieur G. A. E. 

Baboin, operator in the Burma Oil 

Company at Masimpur, Assam. 

Question of the Censership of Mail 

addressed to the Anglo Indian Oil 

Co. Abadan , Iran. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(33)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret)(A) 


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1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(13)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Supply to the secretary Defence 

Cordination deptt. of a copy of the 

United States presidet`s 

Progs., 

proclamation of May 1937 giving a 

1939 

list of Commodities declared to be 

articles of war under the American 

Neutrality Laws. 

Nos. 9(4)-W, 

WAR 1939 



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93 

94 

95 

96 

97 

98 

Censorship of air mail carried in 

Dutch Air Line. 

Declaration of certain places as 

`Protected Places` under the 

Defence of India Rules, 1939. 

Liability of the Central Govt. for 

the cost of the additional polices, 

required for guarding protected 

places. (2) Issue of passes for 

entry into ``prohibited and 

protected` areas, etc. 

Notes prepared by the Army 

Headquarters on the despatch of 

telegrams in an emergency. 

Grouping of circular telegrams. 

Progs., Nos. 14(14)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 24(10)-W, 

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1939 


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1939 (Secret) 

Exemption from censorship of the 

correspondence addressed to or 

emanating from His Holiness the 

Pope, the Cardinal. Secretary of Progs., Nos. 60-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

State of State or the Secretariat of (Secret) 

State. Case of Monseigneur 

Kierkels, Apostolic Delegate and 

Archbishop of Salamis. 

Complaint by the Consul General 

for Japan regarding the detaining 

by the censorship authorities at 

Calcutta of three telegrams Sent 

by the Japanese Consul at 

Rangoon to Jappan Via India. 

Attention of the Consuls-General 

for Japan and Iran drawn to the 

non-compliance of instructions 

issued by the Govt. of India in 

regard to sending of the 

telegrams. 

Assurance given by Foreign Office 

London to the State Department 

of the United States of America, 

that when collecting funds in the 

United States of America for the 

Red Cross, the British Red Cross 

Society and the St. John 

Ambulance Association are not 

Progs., Nos. 92-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 68-W, 1939 WAR 1939 



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99 

acting for or on behalf of His 

Majesty`s Gvoernment. 

Promulgation of the Requisitioning 

of vessels Ordinance 1939 (III of 

Progs., 

1939) to provide for requisitioning 

1939 

of vessels for the service of H.M. 

during the war emergency. 

Nos. 5(4)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Defence of India Ordinance 

Application of to Baluchistan. 

Issue of Notifications regarding 

powers to be conferred on Chief 

Progs., Nos. 

100 Commissioner. Baluchistan, on 

1939 (Secret) 

outbreak of War. Question of issue 

of Notification applying the -------- 

-- to based and tribal areas in 

Baluchista. 

142-W, 

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101 

102 

103 

104 

105 

106 

War Watching Station -- its 

retention for use at the reserve 

dump of Anglo-Iranian Company 

at Bandri. 

Internment of Schmaderer and 

Paidar : German companions of 

Grob expedition, who were 

arrested in Sikkim. 

Enquiry by the Italian Embassy 

from Indian office regarding Limits 

within which consular officers may 

correspond in code and Cypher. 

Question of allowing more than 

one consular officers of the same 

Foreign Govt. in India their Govt. 

in code or cypher. 

United Kingdom Draft Defence 

Regulations, 1939. 

War Book (India)1939 Chapter XV 

the trading with the Enemy Act 

1939 

Transmission to the Chief Censor 

of Specimen Signature of certain 

Foreign Consular Officers who 

granted concessions under 

Telegraph Censorship. 

Progs., Nos. 46-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (B) 


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1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(30)-W, 

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1939 (Secret) 


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1939 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 14(29)-W, 

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1939(Secret) 



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107 

108 

109 

110 

111 

Promulgation of the Detention of 

Enemy Shipping Ordinance, 1939, 

(VI of 1939.) Supply to the 

Foreign Consular Officers in India 

of copies of the Prize Court Rules, 

1939. Establishment of Prize 

Courts. 

4. Gilgit Sub-division and States, 

Tribal Areas and Political districts 

in Gilgit. 2. Appointment of 

Inspector of Enemy Trading, 

Karachi, to be the Inspector for 

North West Frontier Province and 

Punjab Tribal Areas and Gilgit 

Sub-division and Tribal Areas and 

Political Districts in Gilgit. 3. 

Functions of Controllers and 

Inspectors of Enemy Firms. 

Complaint from the Consul 

General for Germany at Calcutta 

regarding restrictions on the 

Movements of German nationals 

at Several Places in India. Cases 

of Dr. Czermak and Mocbs. 

Progs., Nos. 28-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 82-W, 1939 

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(Secret) (B) 


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1939(Secret) 

Question whether any legislation 

on the lines of certain United 

Kingdom War Bills in necessary to 

be introduced in India. Suggestion 

that Departments of the 

Progs., Nos. 

Government of India and those of 1939 (Secret) 

India Office should address 

corresponding Departments in 

connection with any Bills with 

which they are concerned. 

137-W, 

WAR 1939 

Defence of India (Amendment) 

Ordinace, 1939. India Rules, 

1939. Application of ---- to the 

Indian States and British 

Baluchistan. List showing the 

parts of the Gazettex of India 

supplied to the various Political 

Officers of the External Affairs 

Department, direct by the 

Progs., Nos. 24-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 



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112 

113 

114 

115 

116 

117 

118 

Manager of Publications, Delhi. 

Disposal of Surplus, obsolete and 

Waste Stores. 

Progs., Nos. 29-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

War Watching arrangements along 

the Kalat, Lasbela and Mekran 

Coasts and Iranian and Gwadur 

Frontier. 2. Establishment of War 

Watching Station at Jiwani-- 

Installation of a telephone 

connection between the Station 

and Jiwani aerodrome, Incidence 

of expenditure thereof. 3. Issue of 

a Verey Light Pistol and cartridges 

for use in the... 

Progs., Nos. 46-W, 1939 

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(Secret) (A) 

1939 

Purchase and transfer of enemy 

Ships by neutral countries. His 

Majesty`s Government`s Policy. 

Intimation from the Chief Censor, 

India regarding the closing of 

Delhi Telegraph Censor Station. 

Progs., Nos. 65-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(32)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Complaints Received from the 

Consul General for Afghanistan 

regarding the censoring of Letters 

addressed by certain Departments 

of Afghan Government to their 

Consular Officer in India and the 

Delay caused in the transmission 

of His Telegrams received from his 

Govt. and Personal letters and 

Newspapers of his staff sent from 

Kabul. 

Progs., Nos. 14(33)-W, 

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1939 

Decision that enquiries by the 

Polish subjects in India regarding 

the welfare of their relatives in 

Poland, should be made through 

the Polish Consul General at 

Bombay. Case of Mr. Max Geiger 

and Dr. G. T. Kale who made 

enquiries through the Indian Red 

Cross Society. 

4.Request to British Ligation, 

Kabul that visa for India should 

not be granted to Mr. Alto Sule 

Progs., Nos. 86-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 


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120 

121 

122 

123 

124 

without Perior Reference to the 

Govt. of India 5. Decision that Mr. 

Sules Accounts in Peshwar Durbar 

should in Un-plocted. 

Taking over of charge by the 

Finance Department of preliminary 

work relating to immobilisation of 

enemy assets and control of 

enemy trading concerns in war. 

Progs., Nos. 

Desire of the Private Secretary to 

1939 (Secret) 

H E. the Viceroy to be supplied 

with all general memoranda 

circulated by Departments of the 

Government of India in connection 

with emergency measures. 

135-W, 

WAR 1939 

Reports on the international 

situation received from the 

Secretary of State for India, 

London. Discontinuence of the 

practice of Sending such reports 

to the Departmental Secretaries. 

Italian propaganda in Kabul. 

Question of the formation of a 

War Record Office. Preparation of 

a War Diary. Sanction for 

additional Staff. 

Call to Army Service of Officers 

belonging to certain categories of 

the Army in India Reserve of 

Officers. Lists of I.M.D. Officers to 

be surrencderred for Military duty 

on mobilization. 

Certain enquiries made by the 

Swiss Consul Genl. Bombay 

regarding the German Internees 

in India. Decision that a 

reasonable quantity of table silver 

may be considered as personal 

property for an enemy foreigners 

to take out of India. 

Grant of Permission to Mrs. M. 

Subrotova to land at Bombay in 

order to proceed to Afghanistan, 

Progs., Nos. 48-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 


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1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 50-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 


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1939 Secret 


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1939 (Secret) 



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126 

127 

128 

129 

130 

131 

to join her husband, a German 

emply of Abak Company. 

Request of the defence 

department to Supply a Copy of 

all orders other than those 

published in Gazette of India 

relating to the Defence of India 

Ordinance and Connected 

emergency Legislation to certain 

branches of the Defence 

Headquarters. 

Supply to the Deptt. of Supply of 

25 Copies of all Notifications etc. 

regarding emergency measures 

which were issued by the External 

Affairs deptt. and with which the 

Deptt. of Supply was concerned. 

activities should be forwarded 

immediately to this section with 

recommendations for counter 

action ; and that telegrams 

intended for the section should be 

addressed to SIME Middle East 

Cairo. 

Notes furnished by India Office 

London, regarding the 

developments in foreign affairs. 

Complaint from the Afghan Govt. 

re. the detention of their 

telegrams by the Censorship 

authorities. Decision that 

telegrams and Postal 

communications from the Afghan 

Govt. and Diplomatic Missions in 

Kabul (Expert German Legation) 

transitting or distined to India , 

should be allowed to Pass 

Uncensored. 

Call to service of Volunteers under 

the Naval Reserve (Mobilization) 

Act, 1859. 

Progs., Nos. 6-W, 1939 

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Secret 


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1939 


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1939 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 93-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(30)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret)(C) 

Progs., Nos. 80-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Question of applying any new Progs., Nos. 9(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

rules or amendments issued under 1939 Secret(A) 



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132 

133 

134 

135 

136 

137 

138 

the Indian Aircraft act 1934 to the 

Leased and tribal Areas in 

Baluchistran. Amendments to the 

Indian Aircraft Rules 1937. Powers 

given to the Fortress Commander 

Cochin under the Indian Act 1928. 

Restrictions on the ...... 

Promulgation of the Transfer of Air 

Craft and Vessels restriction 

ordinance 1939 and the Indian Air Progs., Nos. 

Force Volunteer Reserve 

1939 Secre 

(Discipline ) Ordinance 1939 (VII 

of 1939) 

5(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Question of Permitting telegrams 

in Spainish between India and 

countries which admit that 

language. 

Miscellaneous instructions about 

the Imposition of Censorship. 

Distribution of telegrams received 

from Ministry of Information, 

London, and from the Ministry of 

Information, London, and from His 

Manesty`s Representative, 

Ankara, for purposes of 

propaganda. 

The Registration Ordinance 1939. 

(II of 1939.) Registration of 

European British Subjects in India 

Liablitiy of persons to register. 

Progs., Nos. 14(15)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 


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1939(Secret) 


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1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 72-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Question of including in 

Government contracts given to 

Engineering and Industrial firms of 

a condition that a certain number Progs., 

of workmen should be trained in 1939 

the branch of industry concerned. 

Question vaised by Defence Coordination 

Deptt. 

Nos. 101-W, 

WAR 1939 

Suggestion by Dr. D. S. Fraser of 

Bombay, regarding the location 

and destruction of magnetic and 

other mines in sea. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 



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140 

141 

142 

143 

144 

145 

Price-Control. Delegation of 

powers, to provide for controlling 

the prices at which certain 

commodities should be sold, to 

certain Political Officers of the 

External Affairs Department. 

Request of the N.W.F.P. 

Government to address all 

correspondence on the Subject of 

control of prices to Revenue and 

Dvl. Commissioner, N.W.F.P. 

Request refused.-- 

Progs., Nos. 26-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (A) 

Instructions regarding the 

procedure to be adopted in regard 

to the sending of messages by 

Ìmperial Cable` and Ìmperial 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

44(1)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Wireless` ; by the Departments of 

the Govt. of India. 

War Book (India)1939 Assurance 

given by the German Govt to H.M. 

Progs., Nos. 

Govt. that they will not make use 

1939 Secret 

of poison gas and Bacteriological 

methods of warfare in the war. 

19(4)-W, 

WAR 1939 

to petrol passing through that 

Province. Restrictions on the entry Progs., Nos. 

of unauthorised persons into 1939 Secret(C) 

certain places. 

9(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Communications received in the 

E.A.Deptt. relating to war 

measures on which no action is 

required. 

Extracts from Iraqi Press sent by 

H. M`s Ambassador, Bagdad, for 

propaganda purposes. Speech 

from the throne on the opening of 

the Iraqi Parliament, dealing with 

events in Iraq since outbreak of 

War. Query by Foreign Secretary 

as to the check on the work of 

propaganda done in the office. 

Treatment of Gechoslovaks in 

India during war Procedure to be 

adopted in granting visa for India 

Progs., Nos. 22-W, 1939 

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Secret 


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1939 (Secret) 


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147 

148 

149 

150 

151 

152 

to Gechoslovaks in Afghanistan. 

Refusal by the Govt. of India to 

grant visa for India to Mr. 

Frantisek Fait and madame Helena 

Bursikova. 

Request by the War Department 

of the United States of America to 

allow American Military Mission to 

observe operations in the field. 

Use of Italian Steamers for the 

despatch of Communications to 

Germany with a view to evading 

the Censor. Question of taking 

action against the persons 

concerned, including certain 

Italians Mr. Cantafora & Di Matteo 

under Rule 21 of the Defence of 

India rules. 

Progs., Nos. 73-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 24(15)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Complaint by the Swiss Consul in 

Charge of the Consulate General , 

Bombay regarding the Opening by Progs., Nos. 14(20)-W, 

WAR 1939 

censor of His official letter sent by 1939(Secret) 

the Federal Political Department, 

Berue. 

Grant to the French Consular 

Agency at Madras and the Belgian 

Consulate General at Calcutta of 

concessions under the Telegaph 

censorship. 

Transmission to His Majesty`s 

Legation, Tehran, of a Press 

cutting regarding Iran`s Majlis. 

Supply of advance copies of Draft 

Y of Defence of India Ordinance, 

to the Agent to the Governor 

General, Resident and Chief 

Commissioner in Baluchistan. 

Discussions with the Government 

of the Punjab and the Principal 

Information Officer, regarding the 

propaganda work done by the 

External Affairs Department for 

dissemination on the Frontier and 

Progs., Nos. 14(31)-W, 

WAR 1939 


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1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 74-W, 1939 

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(Secret) 



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154 

155 

156 

157 

Baluchistan. Distribution for 

publicity of Summeries of articles 

published in the Egyptian Press, 

received from Middle East 

Intelligence Centre, Calro. 

Appointments of the personnel of 

the Attache`s Branch. 

Request of the Chinese Consul 

General at Calcutta for Permission 

to Exchange telegrams with His 

Govt. in certain code words. The 

Consul General asked to approach 

His Majestys Govt. in the matter. 


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1939 

Question of applying the Control 

of Interness` Order, 1939, to 

British Baluchistan. Application of 

the Enemy Property (Custody and 

Registration) Order, 1939, and the 

Notification declaring all enemy Progs., Nos. 64-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

property in British India to vest in (Secret) 

the Custodian of Enemy Property, 

to the Tribal Areas in the N.W.F.P. 

Regulation for the Maintenance of 

Discipline among Enemy 

Internees, 1939. 

Grant to the Japanese Consul 

General at Calcutta , Consul at 

Bombay and the Resident Officer 

in India of the Privilege to 

Exchange telegrams in Code, 

Cyper or any Language with 

certain authorities of their 

Government Outside India. 2. 

Withdrawl of Privilege from 

Japanese Consul at Bombay. 

Progs., Nos. 14(22)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Transmission of a sum of rupees 

two thousand sent by Dr. Filchner, 

a German employee of Nepal 

Government, to his daughter at 

Bombay, and a letter from her 

daughter to Dr. Filchner. 

Progs., 

1939 

Nos. 106-W, 

WAR 1939 

Enquiry of the Consul General for 

Italy at Calcutta about Provisions 


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1939(Secret) 



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158 

of Regulating entry into and 

departure from India of Foreigners 

with reference to Foreigners 

Ordiance. 

Adjustment of Expenditure 

incurred on the account of the 

repatriation of Bombay Ex- Progs., Nos. 11(1)-W, 

WAR 1939 

German Consular party. Payments 1939(Secret)(B) 

of the Bills etc. of the Member of 

the Party. 

Enforcement of prohibition on the 

bringing or taking by sea, land or 

air, into British India from any 

place other by sea, land or air, 

Progs., Nos. 97-W, 1939 

159 into British India from any place 

WAR 1939 

(A) 

other than Burma, or out of British 

India to any place other than 

Burma, goods of certain specified 

description.--- 

160 

161 

Suggestion made by the Senior 

Censor, Belgaum that marchants 

in Portuguese India and their 

clients in British India should 

correspond with each other in 

English, Marathi, Kanarese or 

Konkoni only, in order to avoid 

delay while the correspondence is 

being censored. 

is not Practicable as air mails are 

stored according to the places of 

destination and not according to 

the country of Origin and 

consequently the Mail bag s for 

French Establishments in India 

certain air mails from Other 

countries as Well as France. 

Progs., Nos. 98-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(25)-W, 

WAR 1939 


Exemption from mobilization of 


162 certain French and Belgian Fathers 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

in India. 

163 

Internment of Mr. E. Edelman, the 

acting Honorary Consul for Turkey Progs., Nos. 25-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

at Calcutta who was a German (Secret) 

national and a known Nazi leader. 



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164 

165 

166 

167 

168 

169 

170 

Question of Establishing a 

Telegraph Censorship Station at 

Srinagar(Kashmir) 

The War Supply Organisation. 

Constitution of the War supply 

board to ensure the supplies of all 

kinds required for the prosecution 

of War. Prohibition of export of 

certain articles out of India 

execpting French and Portuguese 

India and Burma without a license 

issued by the Deptt. of Supply . 

Secretary of state...... 

Complaint by the Italian Consul 

General at Calcutta regarding 

stoppage by the Rangoon Censor, 

of his Telegram to the Italian 

Consular Agency , Rangoon. The 

Consul General asked to take up 

the matter with the Govt. of 

Burma through the Italian 

Consular Agent at Rangoon. 

Intimation received from the India 

Office, London regarding the 

broadcast of the Foreign Secretary 

at 20-15 GMT on November 7th 

and 12.00 GMT on November 8th. 

Draft Defence of India Ordinance 

(February 1939 and April 1939 

prints). Revision of-----. 

Discussions regarding delegation 

of powers to local administrations 

etc. under rules 21 and 22 of the 

Defence of India Rules. 

Amendment of rule 22 of the 

Defence of India Rules and issue 

of the Control of Noncommunications 

Order, 1940, 

thereunder. 


WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 4-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret(A) 

Progs., Nos. 14(21)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (A) 

Instruction to dim extinguish or 

remove lights in the lighthouses in Progs., Nos. 34-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

India. Lighthouses in India (Secret) 

declared to be protected places in 



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171 

172 

173 

174 

175 

176 

177 

order to prevent the entry of 

unauthorised persons. 

Decision that Ministry of 

Information and Naval 

Information telegrams for 

publicity and guidance should be Progs., Nos. 

addressed to Principal Information 1939 (Secret) 

officer (Home Department) direct 

instead of External Affairs 

Department. 

124-W, 

WAR 1939 

Introduction of Censorship of 

Communications in Caracas 

Protest from the Ex-Consul 

General for Germany at Calcutta 

againest the arrest of the 

Outbreak of war of Herr Beyer, 

acting commercial attache to that 

consulate. 


WAR 1939 

1939 


WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Defence of India Ordinance and 

Rules, 1939 (Draft Y). Question of 

entrustment under Section 124 of 

the Government of India Act, 

1935 and of delegation under 

Section 5 of Defence of India 

Ordinance, to the Provincial 

Progs., Nos. 

Government of any of the powers 

1939 (Secret) 

of functions conferred under the 

Ordinance upon the central Govt. 

Instructions to destroy drafts X & 

Y and supply of the copies of 

Defence of India Ordinance and 

Rules to authorities under External 

Affairs Department. 

24(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Retention of the Services of M. 

Mathiaux (a French citizen) as 

General Manager, Roll Foundry, 

Tata Iran and Steel Works Ltd. 

Jamshedpur. 

Question of the censorship of 

mails in transit throuth India to or 

from limitrophe countries. 

Treatment accorded to German 

Ex-Consular officers in India , 

Progs., Nos. 47-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 


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179 

180 

181 

182 

their Staff and Property. Disposal 

of Money found in the Possession 

of Mr. Otto Zimmer , German Ex- 

Commercial Attache, Bombay. 

Establishment of a Ministry of 

Economic Warfare. Instructions 

from the Ministry of Economic 

Warfare to H. M`s Ministers at 

Kabul and Khatmandu regarding 

purchaese by United Kingdom 

abroad. 

Appointment of officers holding in 

British India the appointments of 

Controller of Enemy Trading 

Controller of Enemy Firms and 

Custodian of Enemy Property to 

be respectively officers for :- 1. 

North West Frontier Province and 

Punjab Tribal Areas, 2. 

Baluchistan Tribal Areas and 

States, 3. Sikkim States.-- 

Progs., Nos. 56-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 82-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (A) 

Arrangements for the Censorship 

of mails to and from French and 

Portuguese India. Decision to 

censor all Non-Offcial Mails to and 

from Portuguese India. Suggestion 

of H.B.M.`s Consul General 

Pondicherry that all mails to and 

from Portuguese India should be 

Censored at one plance namely 

Belgaum. Grievances of the Govr. 

Genl. Portuguese India against the 

Imposition 

Progs., Nos. 17-W, 1939 

WAR 

Secret(A) 

1939 

1. War trade lists Nos. (1) & (2),-- 

- Amendments, to ---. 2. Question 

of inclusions of Skodas (Kabul) as Progs., Nos. 89-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

an enemy firm. 3. Inclusion of (Secret) 

certain Gangtok firms in H. M. G`s 

Black List. 

Withdrawl of the Restrictions 

regarding:- (1) the Use of Codes 

or Cyphers in telegrams to and 

from Indo China Bank of 


WAR 1939 




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183 

184 

185 

186 

187 

Pondichery.(ii) the Use of 

commercial codes for Private 

Telegrams exchanged between 

France and French Colonies. 

Control of civil aircraft in war 

emergency. The Appointment of 

the Director of Civil Aviation as 

the Special representatives in 

India of the Director General of 

Civil Aviation of the U.K. for the 

purpose of controlliing the 

movements of and the allocation 

of space in British Aircraft during 

the emergency. 

Revision of censorship regulations 

India. Permits for transmission by 

Post of Certain clauses of postal 

articles to neutral Countries. 

Supply of permit books to certain 

foreign consuls in India & to 

H.M.`s General Kashgar. 

War watching Stations. War 

watching manual (India), 1938. 

Instructions to War watching 

Station (India), 1938 and 

amendments made therein. 

Question of wireless 

communication at Bahrain in the 

event of War. 

1. Bringing into force of Chapters 

II and IV of the Defence of India 

Act, 1939. 2. Application of the 

Defence of India Act, 1939 to the 

areas and States with which the 

External Affairs Department is 

concerned. 3. Executinve 

instructions issued by the Political 

Agent, Gilgit, under the Defence 

of India Act, 1939 for use in 

Hunza, Nagir, Chalas and the 

Political Districts. 

Visit of the Swiss Consul at 

Bombay to Delhi to discuss the 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 23-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 24(12)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (A) 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 



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189 

190 

191 

192 

193 

question of maintenance and 

departure of enemy Subjects at 

liberty. Decision to advance 

payment of passages to ememy 

aliens who are unable to pay for 

their own passage. 

Decision that permits issued by 

the chief Censor India are not 

required for parcels etc., posted to 

France or French possessions and 

for articles posted on the Business Progs., 

of the Govt. of French India even 1939 

when addressed to neutral 

countries Case of Rev. J.Mezin of 

the Catholic Mission at 

Pondicherry 

Nos. 23(6)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Opening of Casuality Section and 

Prisoners of War Information Progs., Nos. 53-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Bureau in the Adjutant General`s (Secret) 

Branch of the Army Headquarters. 

War Book (India) -Chapter XIV 

Control of materials manufactured 

articles and exports. 

Application of Defence of India 

Ordinance and Rules to certain 

areas with which External Affairs 

Department is concerned. 2. 

Application of Dramatic 

Performance Act to British 

Baluchistan. 3. Decision that the 

Defence of India Ordinance need 

not be applied to tribal areas in 

Assam and to States in the 

N.W.F.P... 

of censorship in British India. 

Question of the diversion of 

Neutral ships to British Ports for 

the examination of mails. 

1. Decision that in order to avoid 

delay Baluchistan administration 

should also be addressed by the 

Home Department, while 

addressing other Provincial 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (A) 

Progs., Nos. 17-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret(B) 

Progs., Nos. 88-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (A) 



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195 

196 

197 

198 

199 

Governments in connection with 

War book and connected matters, 

and a copy of the communication 

endorsed to the external Affairs 

Department for information.--- 

Enquiry from the Consul for 

Switzerland regarding the release 

of Miss Lisa Von Pott., a German 

woman in term in India. 


WAR 1939 

1939 

Decision that it is for the Political 

Department to decide upon 

receipt from the Departments of 

the Govt. of India of copies of 

instructions issued by them in 

cypher to Chief Commissioners, 

whether to address Residents who 

are also Chief Commissioners by 

cypher telegrams or by post. 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

128-W, 

WAR 1939 

Issue of instructions to aerodrome 

personnel and police of certain 

Indian States in Connection with 

the prevention of departure of 

alien suspects by air from India. 

Decision that all amendments to, 

and proposals to delegate 

authority under, the Defence of 

India Rules shall be referred to 

the Defence Co-ordination 

Department before Publication. 

goods on that deptt. who 

controlled all jute manufacturing 

in India Manufacturing. 

Complaint from the Norwegain 

Consul-General regarding the 

Opening of His Official 

correspondence by the Censor. 

200 Only Slip is Available. 

201 

Restrictions imposed by the Govt. 

of Burma on the export and 

import by sea or by land of certain 

goods from and into British 

Progs., Nos. 8-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 9-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret(B) 

Progs., Nos. 14(18)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 82-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 



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203 

204 

205 

206 

207 

Burma. 

Complaint by the Netherlands 

Consul direct and throught he 

Govt. regarding the Opening and 

Delay in the Delevery of His 

official correspondence, by the 

Progs., Nos. 14(19)-W, 

WAR 

1939(Secret) 

1939 

Censorship authorities at Bombay. 

2. Procedure to be adopted in 

corresponding with Provincial 

Governments, relating to War 

preparations, so far as Defence 

Co-ordination Department is 

concerned. 

Progs., Nos. 88-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (B) 

Complaint by the Italian Consul 

General, Bombay regarding nonacceptanc 

by the Telegraph 

authorities of Telegrams 

Progs., Nos. 14(31)-W, 

WAR 


1939 

signtelegrams emanating from the 

consulate General. 

Opening in error of official 

correspondence of the Japanese 

Govt. addressed to their Minister 

in Tehran, by Censor staff in 

Madras, while in Postal transit 

through India. 

His Majesty the King`s Gracious 

Message to His Excellency the 

Viceroy acknowledgin the 

generous offers of assistance by 

the Princes and People of India 

during War. 


WAR 1939 


Progs., Nos. 33-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Mode of despatch of telegrams 

between the Consul General for 

Nepal, Delhi, and Nepalese 

Government and the question 

whether they are regarded as 

inland for purposes of censorship. Progs., Nos. 94-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Decision that as correspondence (Secret) 

between the Nepalese Consul 

General and his Government is 

not censored the question of the 

censorship of such telegrams does 

not arise. 



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208 

209 

210 

211 

212 

213 

214 

Decision of His Majesty`s 

Government that the territories 

comprising : 1. The Protectorates 

Progs., Nos. 

of Bohemia and Moravia; 2. 

1939 (Secret) 

Slovakia ; 3. The Free City of 

Danzig; should be regard as areas 

in the occupation of Germany. 

104-W, 

WAR 1939 

Treatment accorded to the 

German & Czech employed of the 

Afghan Govt. who were in India 

on the outbreak of war. 

Permission grated to Mr. Kotek a 

Czechoslovak in Kabul to open on 

account with a bank in Peshawar. 

Agenda for the meeting of the 

Departmental War Committee. 

Messrs. Rose and Company Ltd. of 

Sialkot dealers in generals sports 

and athletic goods informed 

through the Punjab Govt. to apply 

to the Chief Censor Army 

Headquarters New Delhi for the 

export of goods by parcel post to 

neutral Countries. 

Aliens Standing Committee. 

Control and treatment of 

Foreigners in War. Offers of 

Provisions of accommodation for 

the families of interved enemy 

Subjects by Y.W.C.A.Maintenance 

allowance for Enemy women and 

Children. 

Supply to the Economic Resources 

Board of Notification relating to 

war measures issued by the 

External affairs department. 

Removal from Bombay of Mrs. 

Gertrude Sadoe, a British National 

by virtue of her marriage on 

account of her pro-Nazi activities. 

Orders issued under Rule 26 of 

Defence of India Rules directing 

Mrs. Sadoe to reside and remain 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 


WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 



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215 

216 

217 

218 

219 

220 

at parole camp at Satara. 

Question of the imposition of 

censorship on transfrontier and 

overseas telegraphic and postal 

communications, in 1938. 

Ordinance and the Legislative 

Department for the promulgation 

of all other ``War Ordinances``. 

6. Decision that the copies of the 

Gazette of India Containing the 

Defence of India Ordinance will be 

supplied free of cost to the 

Departments of the Government 

of India, by the Defence Coordination 

Department. 

Censorship Interception. Letter 

from a French woman addressed 

toa German on Board a Damish 

traveller at Bahrein. 

Notice issued by the Director of 

Civil Aviation in India, to airmen 

regarding the restrictions on the 

transmission by W/T of 

meteriological information 

between Calcutta, Chittagong and 

Akyab. 

Request of the Defence Coordination 

Department that all 

matters of the nature of Royal 

Proclamations, Orders in Council 

etc., which the Departments of 

the Government of India may 

receive from the United Kingdom 

should be referred to that 

Department in order that the 

question of re-publication may be 

considered. 

Regulations regarding permission 

for British subjects and Britishprotected 

persons to enter enemy 

territory and to go abroad vessels 

or aircraft in the service of an 

enemy Power. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (C) 

Progs., Nos. 14(34)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 85-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 


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1939 (Secret) 



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222 

223 

224 

225 

226 

Distribution for propanganda 

purposes of material received 

from His Majesty`s Ambassador, 

Angora. 

Request by the Swiss Consul 

Bombay, in-charge of German 

Affairs, to visit German Civilian 

internees at Ahmednagar ; and to 

send to report about his visit to 

the Special Division of the Swiss 

Legation in London. Conditions 

under which the interview war 

granted. Instructions regarding 

the channel through... 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 58-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (A) 

Closing of the land frontiers of 

India. Treatment of Germans 

Japanese and Italians as potential 

enemies for the purpose of 

restrictions on aliens leaving 

India. Detention of German doctor Progs., Nos. 7-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Mahenn by the Bengal Govt. Secret 

under section 3 of Foreigners Act. 

Instructions that no German 

consular officer to leave British 

India without express permission 

of Central Govt. 

Arrangements made by the 

Defence co-ordination Department 

for the recall of officers both 

Military and Civil who were in 

Progs., Nos. 54-W, 1939 

England on the outbreak of war. 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (A) 

Recall of Colonel Wilson and other 

Military Officers of Frontier Corps. 

Question of enrollment on the 

Central Register in the... 

Notifications regarding the 

outbreak of War with Germany 

Issue of the War Telegram. 

Declaration by H.M.`s Govt to the 

League of Nations regarding War 

with Germany. 

Progs., Nos. 1-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret 

Freedom to purchase stores for Progs., Nos. 134-W, 

WAR 1939 

India from any source in the event 1939 (Secret) 



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227 

228 

229 

230 

231 

of an emergency. Arrangements 

to obtain some of the War 

requirements of the Government 

of India from countries other than 

the United Kingdom. 

Question of the watch on Press in 

order to Present the appearance 

of articles which may cause 

trouble on th frontier or in the 

State-bordering India. 

Progs., Nos. 116(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Preparation of a preliminary Black 

List in September 1938 crisis of 

persons and firms in India and ex- 

Progs., Nos. 

India Known to be hostile to 

1939 (Secret) 

British interersts or sympathetic 

to German, Italian and Japanese 

interests. 

138-W, 

WAR 1939 

1. Policy of the United States of 

America as regards neutrality in 

the war. 2. Holding of Pan- 

American Neutrality Conference at 

Panama, to discuss (i) neutrality, 

(ii) the protection of the peace of 

the Western Hemisphere, and (iii) 

economic co-operation. 

Resolutions adopted by the 

Conference, viz :- .... 

Progs., Nos. 66-W, 1939 

WAR 

(Secret) (A) 

1939 

Request of H.Ms Min. , Kabul to 

release the Newspaperssent from 

Kabul to all Parts of the World 

which were stopped by Censor , 

Peshaewar. Request of Afghan 

Consul General to pass without 

being censored Such letters which 

may bear the Printed Mark of the 

Afghan Govt. Request of the 

Afghan Govt. that the Afghan 

Trade Agent, Peshawar may be 

allowed to write official Letters in 

Persian. 

Complaint by the British Legation 

Kabul regarding the Censership 

Authorities of their letters 

Progs., Nos. 14(33)-W, 

WAR 1939 


Progs., Nos. 14(11)-W, 

WAR 1939 




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233 

234 

235 

236 

received from the British Consul. 

Office Order that official messages 

should not be sent by telegram or Progs., Nos. 44-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

wireless without the prior sanction (Secret) 

of an officer. 

Air Ristriction. Restrictions on civil 

flights over India Notice regarding 

permits for flights to India. 

Amendments to Indian air craft 

Rules. 1937. Memorandum 

regarding 1 Protection of Civil 

aeroplanes in war and 2. 

Prohibited areas for Civil Aircrafts. 

Air Navigation (Colonies 

Protectorates and Mandated 

Territories )(Amendment )Order 

...... 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret(A) 

Disposal of the letters sent by Dr. 

Filchner and his assistants, who 

are carrying on geomagnatic 

survey in Nepal, and Monsieur 

Henaff and Mrs. Moody of Kabul to 

their friends and relatives in India 

and Germany. 

Progs., Nos. 87-W, 1939 WAR 1939 

Japanese Consul General asked to 

inform leading Japanese firms 

doing business in India to conduct 

their correspondence in English as 

far as practicable to avoid delay in 

censorship. Transmission to the Progs., Nos. 84-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Consul General for delivery to the (Secret) 

rightful owner, of ten statements 

of stock accounts in the Japanese 

Language received loose and 

without cover alongwith other 

closed letters. 

Communication by Dr. W.Pausch 

then consul Genl. for Germany at 

Calcutta of the address of Dr Ernst 

Schaefer to Rabden P. 

Barphungpa Enche House Gangtok 

son of Enche Kazi Landlord and 

Magistrate of Gangtok Sikkim. 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 



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238 

239 

240 

241 

242 

Closing of frontiers ex-India to 

Afghansitan and Iran to Germans 

Japanese and Italians Under 

Foreigners ordinance. Enquiry 

regarding the Circumstances 

under which certain Germans and 

Japanese were allowed by the 

N.W.F.P. Govt. to proceed to 

Kabul from Peshawar. 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 

Decision that requests from 

trading firms and individuals in 

India for assistance in the 

collection of claims due from 

enemies or nationals of countries 

controlled by enemies, should be 

registered with the Director 

General of Commercial 

Intelligence and Statistics for 

eventual settlement after the War. 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

114-W, 

WAR 1939 

United Kingdom regulation for 

Censorship 1938. Use of 

Commercial Codes. 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 

Authority to withhold extracts or 

delete such portions as are not in 

Progs., Nos. 3-W, 1939 

the Public interests to be disclosed 

WAR 1939 

Secret 

of messages emanating from one 

or other of Reuters Agencies. 

Purchase by the External Affairs 

Department of certain newspapers 

for propaganda purposes. Supply 

to the North West Frontier 

Province and Baluchistan 

Administrations of copies of the 

Fauji Akhbar. 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

116-W, 

WAR 1939 

Request of the Consul General for 

Portugal at Bombay for 

transmission of a letter from the 

Captains of certain German 

steamers in Marmagoa harbour to 

the Swiss Consul at Bombay 

incharge of German interests 

during war. Decision that 

exchange of communications 

Progs., Nos. 99-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 



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244 

245 

246 

247 

248 

249 

between Swiss Consul and the 

Capts cannot be permitted. 

Announcement regarding the 

taking over of Charge of British 

and Indian interest in the Enemy 

Countries by the Govt of the 

U.S.A. 

Supply to British Legation, Kabul 

of extracts from Mr. Churcill`s 

broadcast and the Prime 

Minister`s speech in House of 

Commons of the 1st and 3rd 

October respectively, for 

propaganda purposes. 

Progs., Nos. 2-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

export and import from and into 

British India of certain articles. 

Question of applying the 

restrictions to the Indian States 

Progs., Nos. 

etcx. under the political control of 

1939 Secret(B) 

the External Affairs Deptt. Enquiry 

from the N.W.F.P. Govt if ban on 

the export of fuel from India is to 

be applied..... 

9(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

British Manager Manila Electric 

Company a United States 

Corporation on an enquiry through 

the British Consul Genl. Manila 

Informed that there is no 

probability of an Embargo being 

planced on export of coal from 

India to the Phillipines. 

Progs., 

1939 

Nos. 9(8)-W, 

WAR 1939 

3. Entrustment to the Kashmir 

Government of the powers to try 

and sentence Foreigners accused 

of offences under the Registration 

of Foreigners Act, 1939. 

through His Majestys Minister in 

Kabul , regarding of their Official 

Letters by the Censorship 

authorities in India. 

Recognition of the new status of 

Albania by His Majesty`s 

Government. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 14(23)-W, 

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1939 



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251 

252 

253 

254 

255 

256 

Dept. Defence of India Ordinance 

and Rules, (September 1938)--- 

Redraft of the Parts I to VII. 

Arrangements made with the 

Defence Co-ordination 

Department regarding issue of 

Notification announcing the 

outbreak of War. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

1. Control of Foreigners.2. Grant 

of Permission to Mr. Auto Sale to 

leave India for Afghanistan to take 

up appointment as chief 


Accountant in Afghan Building 

WAR 1939 


Company.3.Instructions that cutry 

into Indian of M/s Smyth , the 

Finance of Mr. Otto Sule Should 

not Permitted. 

Complaint by Rai Sahib Malik Duli 

Chand of Darya Khan, Panjab 

regarding non-delivered of his 

letter addressed to Haji Bhacker 

bin Abdul Latif, to Muskat , by the 

Political Agent, Muscat. 

Exemption from Such Examination 

to :- 1.Letters and Postal packets 

which are addresed to or bear an 

External Indication that they 

emanate from , a State 

Department Embassy Legation of 

any Power not at war with His 

Majesty(ii) Official diplomatic and 

Consular bags. 

Censorship of mails passing 

through the British Post Office at 

Bahrein. Permission granted to 

the use of Arabic in telegraph 

traffic between Bahrein and Saudi 

Arabia. Political Resident Bahrein 

informed of the extent of 

Censorship in India. 


WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(26)-W, 

WAR 1939 



WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 

Instructions to the maritime states 

Progs., Nos. 35-W, 1939 

regarding Naval Control and 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Contraband Control Services and 



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257 

258 

259 

prohibition of British merchant 

ships proceeding to Russian Ports. 

Decision that all enemy property 

in British India, movable or 

immovable, belonging to or held 

by or managed on behalf of an 

enemy subject who for the time 

being is not in India, do vest in 

the Custodian of Enemy Property 

for British India, and cannot be 

remitted to an enemy subject 

even in if he is in a neutral 

country. Case of one Otto Priess, 

a German mechanic in the employ 

of the Afghan Government. 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

126-W, 

WAR 1939 

Request of the Consul General for 

France at Calcutta regarding the 

Exemption from telegraph and 

Postal censorship of 

communications emanating from 

French Consulate, Bombay, 

French Consular Agency, Madras 

and His own Consulate General. 

Grant of concessions under 

telegraph censorship to the Head 

Office of certain Central banks. 

Progs., Nos. 14(30)-W, 

WAR 1939 


Progs., Nos. 14(12)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Transmission to the French Indian 

Govt. of a letter from a French 

Soldier Lesery to his wife in Pondi Progs., Nos. 14(17)-W, 

260 

WAR 1939 

Cherry, containing a Suggestion to 1939(Secret) 

use Chemicals when writting in 

Future. 

261 

262 

263 

Suspenstion of leave in India, on 

account of war. Exceptions where 

leave should be granted. 

Distribution for publicity purposes, 

of summeries of Naval events 

issued by the Military of 

Information, London, for 

counteracting effects of enemy 

propaganda. 

Decision as to how to avoid any 

confusion which may arise in 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 81-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 24(11)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (A) 



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264 

certain cases owing to the 

existence of the dual authority on 

account of the assignment to both 

the Central and the Provincial 

Governments of the ``concurrent 

powers`` in certain of the 

Defence of India Rules. Decision 

that the Defence of India.... 

(i) The declaration of Panama 

containing the definition of the 

maritime security zone; (ii) the 

general declaration on neutrality; Progs., Nos. 66-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(iii) a resolution concerning the (Secret) (B) 

co-ordination of Police and Judicial 

regulations for the maintenance of 

neutrality;... 

Decision that all commercial and 

Private telegrams between Neutral 

countries and Germany transitting Progs., Nos. 14(31)-W, 

265 

WAR 1939 

India will be consedered as foreign 1939(Secret)(C) 

to Foreign Transit telegrams for 

the Purpose of censorship. 

266 

267 

268 

(iv) the resolution on contraband; 

and (v) the resolution regarding 

the humanisation of war. 3. An 

unsuccessful attempt by the 

German Minister to the Central 

American Republics to be allowed 

to attend, as an observer, the 

conference, the proceedings of 

which were kept secret. 

Delegation of powers under Rule 

76 of the Defence of India Rules 

to General Officers Commandingin-Chief, 

Commands, and the 

Commander, Western 

(Independent) District, for the 

requisitioning of buildings etc. for 

military purposes. 

Formation ofa Ministry of 

Information in U.K. Appointment 

of Mr. R.H. Scott as Director 

General of Publicity in Far East. 

Progs., Nos. 66-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) (C) 

Progs., Nos. 24(13)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


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1939(Secret) 



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270 

271 

272 

273 

274 

Instructions received from India 

Office to avoid any reference to 

Turkey as an Ally as Treaty with 

Turkey had not yet concluded. 

Act may be amended so as to 

remedy the deficiency which 

deprives the Chief Commissioners 

of the power of delegation, under Progs., Nos. 24(11)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Defence of India Rules, since the 1939 (Secret) (B) 

officers in a Chief Commissioner`s 

Province are subordinate to the 

Central Government. 

Information gathered from States 

and administrative areas under E. 

A. Department regarding 

internment of enemy Subjects. 

Defence (Finance) Regulations 

Amendment Order, 1939. 

Securities (Restrictions and 

Returns) order, 1939. Currency 

Restrictions Exemption (Nos. 3 & 

4) Order, 1939. Acquisition of 

Securities Order, 1940. 

Decision that the British council is 

aPrivate body, the action of the 

censorship Authorities in Opening 

the covers was in Order. 

Weekly reports on war events 

received from the High 

Commissioner for India, London, 

through the Economic Advisor to 

the Government of India, New 

Delhi. 

Progs., Nos. 78-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 24(14)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(11)-W, 

WAR 1939 



WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Enquiry from Italian Minister in 

kabul wheather letters from 

neutrals in Kabul written in 

Languages other than French or 

English are allowed to Pass 

through India. Complaints from 

Egyptian Charge D affairs in Kabul 

, Japanese Legation in Kabul and 

the Afghan Govt. received --- 

Progs., Nos. 14(23)-W, 

WAR 


1939 

275 Report supplied to the British Progs., Nos. 118-W, WAR 1939 



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276 

277 

278 

279 

Ambassador, Tokyo, on the strike 1939 

by Bombay Textile workers to 

protest against India`s joining the 

war and to secure increased 

wages. 

(iii) The use by colonial banks of 

Issue the Use of Private codes 

between France and French 

Colonies .(iv) the Use by certain 

French firms of Private codes in 

their telegraphic Communications 

between their Head office and 

Agency. 


WAR 1939 


Permits for transmission by post 

of certain classes of postal articles 

to neutral countries Inclusion of 

Egypt in the Same Category 

supply of Permit Books to Foreign 

Consuls in India. 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 Secret 

23(5)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Complaint by the Governor of 

french Establishments in India 

received through the British Consl 

General, Pondichery, regarding 

the Opening of His Official and 

Private mail by the Censor, 

Madras. Decision that under the 

Censership Regulations both 

Private and Official mails of the 

French Governor eare exempt 

from censorship; and that the 

Suggestion of the Consul General 

, Pondichery that the censership in 

France is very Serve , Private 

letters posted from France by air 

mail need not to be censored in 

India , --- 

Progs., Nos. 14(25)-W, 

WAR 


1939 

Supply to the Defence Coordination 

Department, direct by 

the Manager, Government of India 

Progs., 

Press, of 5 copies of all 

1939 

notifications of the External Affairs 

Department (War Branch), 

published in the Gazette of India, 

Nos. 129-W, 

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281 

282 

ordinary or extra-ordinary. 

Decision of the War Cabinet of His 

Majesty`s Government to base 

their policy as regards to the War 

on the assumption that the War 

will last for three years or more. 

Progs., Nos. 27-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Establishment of a security 

intelligence section on the staff of 

the G.O.C. in Cheif, Middle East, 

Cairo, to collate information and 

to keep all concerned informed of Progs., Nos. 121-W, 

WAR 1939 

movements and activities of 1939 (Secret) (A) 

enemy agents. Request that every 

information received regarding 

actual or potential enemy agents 

and any enemy subversive... 

1939.The Air Navigation (Colonies 

Protectoration and Mandated 

territories ) order 1927 and the 

Civil Air Navigation Act 1920. 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret(B) 

Decision to treat Iraq as a Neutral 

Country for purposes of 

censorship of all correspondence 

Progs., Nos. 

283 including telegrams printed papers 

1939 Secret 

and parcels in view of nonexistance 

there of efficient 

censorship arrangements. 

2(3)-W, 

WAR 1939 

284 

285 

286 

Facilities for Indian Students in 

the United Kingdom to return to 

India during the war 

Progs., Nos. 18-W, 1939 WAR 1939 

Defence of India Ordinance- 

Clauses 36,37, 38 and 40 and 

Chapter IX of War Book (India). 

Treatment to be accorded to 

Foreign Diplomatic or Consular 

Officers and enemy aliens in the 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

24(6)-W, 

WAR 1939 

event of War. Issue of instructions 

to Provincial Govts. in the matter. 

Procedure regarding arrests and 

internment of hostile aliens. 

The Principal Supply Officers` 

Committee (India), who made 

arrangements for the provision of 

Progs., Nos. 43-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 



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287 

288 

officer personnel for all 

departments of the Central 

Government, in times of war, 

informed that the Political and the 

External Affairs Departments are 

not likely to be deficient of officers 

during the first few months of 

War. 

Activities of certain Germans and 

Italians. Watch on the movements 

of German. Statement of one Progs., Nos. 31-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Albert Stock, a German, who was (Secret) 

arrested and interrogated after 

the outbreak of war. 

Instructions issued by the Chief 

Censor regarding the Diplomatic 

and Consualar Mails, Mails of 

Portuguese India and Apostolic 

Delegate. 

Progs., Nos. 14(33)-W, 

WAR 1939 


Decision that war effort 

undertaken by the External Affairs 

Department is not of a type to 

which publicity can be given ; and 


289 that if any information in this 

WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (A) 

respect is required by Sir Zafrullah 

Khan as a representative to the 

Conference of the Imperial and 

Dominions... 

290 

291 

292 

293 

Grant of Concessions under Postal 

Censership Foreign Consular 

officers in India. 

Arrangements made regarding the 

move down to Delhi of the 

personnel of the Key-Section of 

the External Affairs Department, 

on account of war during 1939. 

Request of certain Polish subject 

in Afghanistan received through 

British legation, Kabul for 

passages to proceed to France to 

Join the Polish Army there. 


Telegraph and Postal censership 

Progs., Nos. 62-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 38-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(16)-W, 

WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 



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295 

296 

297 

298 

299 

300 

to subordinate Consular 

Censership of mails of the Indian 

Consul at Quetta. 

i. A request from H. M.`s Govt. 

that precautionary measures 

should be taken. ii. the receipt of 

the War Telegram. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (B) 

The British White Paper, 

presented by the Secretary of 

State for Foreign Affairs, London, 

to Parliament, concerning the 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

119-W, 

WAR 1939 

treatment accorded in Germany to 

the German Nationals. 

Arrangements for the departure of 

Ex-German Cansular Officers and 

Members the German Consulate 

Staff at Calcutta and Bombay and 

adjustant of the Expenditure 

incurred thereby. 

Supply by P.I.O. by the Press of 

information received by the Govt. 

of India for publicity purposes 

regarding War and connected 

matters. 

Delegation of powers to the 

officers to search or cause search 

to be made, for the goods 

mentioned above. 


WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 79-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 97-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(B) 

Distribution for propaganda 

purposes of Egyptian News papers Progs., Nos. 

received from Middle East 1939 (Secret) 

Intelligence Centre Caird. 

74(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Agent to the Governor General, 

Resident and Chief Commissioner, 

Baluchistan and the Political 

Officer in Sikkim asked to advise 

the States with which they are 

concerned to obtain copies of the 

Urdu Edition of the Defence of 

India Act, 1939, from the 

Manager, Publications, Delhi. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 

301 . Discussions regarding the non- Progs., Nos. 24(9)-W, WAR 1939 



WAR 

302 

303 

304 

305 

306 

extension to Foreign consular 1939 (Secret) (B) 

officers in India, under the Control 

of Non-communications Order, of 

privileges granted to diplomatic 

representatives in the United 

Kingdom under the United 

Kingdom Control of 

Communications Order (No. 1) 

(Statutory) Rules and Orders 1940 

No. 629.) 

The Political Deptt. Secretariat 

War Book (1938)--Amendments 

to. 

Progs., Nos. 21-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret 

Distribution for propaganda 

purposes of telegrams received 

from the British Representative, 

Ankara and other material 

concering Turkey received from 

India Office, London. 

Contradiction by the Foreign 

office, London of certain rumours 

prevalent in Afghanistan, in 

connection with war and its effects 

on Britain. 

Progs., Nos. 61-W, 1939 

WAR 

(Secret) 

1939 

4. Decision that an outline 

distribution list showing number of 

copies of Defence of India 

Ordinance issued to Deptts. of the 

Government of India and 

Provincial Governments should be 

included in the War Book (India). 

5. Decision that the Defence Coordination 

Department will be 

responsible for the promulgation 

of the Defence of India... 

Proposed Shippin facilities for 

imports of Wheat, & C., to 

Nawanagar and other States 

during the present famine. 

Murder of his wife by Major Beyer 

a German Police officer in Kabul. 

Interment of the Major at 

Ahmednagar. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) (B) 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Confidential) 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 



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307 

308 

309 

310 

311 

312 

313 

Grant of Permission to wife of one 

Galewaki, a German Jew, 

employed in the Iranian Customs 

at Khorramshahr, to land in 

Bombay and proceed to Iran to 

join her husband. Recovery of the 

telegraphic charges incurred in 

making arrangements. 

Exemption of certain foreigners 

from the Provisions of Part III of 

the Enemy Foreigners Order, 

1939. 

Enquiries made from the British 

Consul General, Batavia and 

Colonial Secretary, Singapore 

regarding the Indian passengers 

on board the Italian liner `Conte 

Bianeamano` ; diverted to 

Batavia on the outbreak of war. 

Progs., Nos. 36-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 

Progs., Nos. 45-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Enquiry from Hims Tokyo, 

regarding the Procedure to be 

adopted by the Jap, Camp[ 

Progs., Nos. 

Delegates in Sending code or 

1939(Secret) 

cypher sels to their Govt. owing to 

the imposition of censorship due 

to the Outbreak of War. 

10(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Neutrality of certain Coutries 

during War. 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 

Deptt. Defence of India Ordinance 

(February 1939). Revision of 

Clauses 34, 43. 45, 67-69 and 

124. Suggestion for the provisions 

for :- i. Charging a small fee for 

the grant or issue of certain` 

permits` under certain clauses of 

the Defence of India Ordinance ; 

ii. The Central Government of 

powers to take possession of and 

use of land in the event of War. 

Progs., Nos. 

1939 (Secret) 

144-W, 

WAR 1939 

Arrest and releases of one Klein, a 

German pilot of the K.L.M. 

(Netherlands Air Lines). 

Progs., Nos. 42-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

314 Distribution of propaganda Progs., Nos. 75-W, 1939 WAR 1939 



WAR 

315 

316 

317 

318 

319 

320 

telegrams from Beruit. 

Sympathies of the Moslems of 

Beirut in support of the 

Democracies in the present war. 

(Secret) 

Conditions under which printed 

papers and parcels and 

publications of the Govt. of India 

addressed to neutral Countries 

may be posted by heads of Govt. 

offices on Govt. Business only 

without permits. Decision that 

permit system cannot apply to 

Progs., 

1939 

Nos. 23(4)-W, 

WAR 1939 

mails in transit through India from 

neutral Countries to neutral 

Countries. 

Report from Air o/c B. F. Iraq 

regarding the control of defences 

at Shatt-el Arab. 

Amendments to military 

Internment Instructions (India) 

1939. 

War Book (India) Chapter IX 

Control of aliens etc. Enquiry by 

Mr. H.M.Sanders Chaplain of 

Chakrata U.P. regarding his 

position on a neutral ship calling 

at an Italian part during the war 

time. 

Progress Reports on the 

internment of enemy aliens, 

received from Adjutant General`s 

Branch. 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 41-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

(Secret) 

Imposition of prohibition on export 

of certain articles out of British 

India to any destination outside 

India or Burma. Steps taken by 

the French Indian and Portuguese 

Progs., Nos. 

Indian Govt. to impose prohibition 

1939 Secret 

on export from their ports of such 

articles emanating from British 

India in order to guard against 

possibility of above articles finding 

their way out of India through 

9(1)-W, 

WAR 1939 



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321 

322 

323 

324 

325 

326 

French or Portuguese India. 

Anxiety of the French Govr. at 

great increase in the bazar prices. 

Royal assent given to Emergency 

Powers (Defence) Act. Board of Progs., Nos. 

Trade and Admiralty Authorised to 1939 (Secret) 

requisition British vessels. 

48(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Statement made by the Sheikh of 

Bahrein on the Id festival, 

stressing on the gratitude which 

Moslems in the Gulf owned to 

Great Britain for her help and 

Protection and warmly welcoming 

the alliance between England, 

France and Turkey. 

for India informed of the forecast 

of requirement of the Govt. of 

India of various raw materials 

during the twelve months from 

the Ist October 1939. 


WAR 1939 

1939 

Progs., Nos. 4-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret(B) 

Promulgation of Foreigners 

Ordinance 1939, in the areas 

Progs., Nos. 

under the administration control 

1939 (Secret) 

of the External Affairs Department 

Foreigners Orders, 1939. 

71(2)-W, 

WAR 1939 

Correspondence in connection 

with war measures on which 

action was taken by the 

E.A.Deptt. Nomination of Mr. 

C.A.C. Savidge as Liaison Officer 

for E.A.Dept. Issue of Contraband 

restrictions to the Authorities 

Concerned. 

Progs., Nos. 16-W, 1939 

WAR 1939 

Secret 

Watch on the exports of certain 

commodities from maritime states 

in India. Secretary of state for 

India London requested by the 

Supply Deptt. to ask all Empire 

and other overseas Indentors to 

place their demands for raw jute 

or manufactured jute..... 

Progs., Nos. 9-W, 1939 

WAR 

Secret(A) 

1939 



WAR 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

Indias requirements of Mucury for 

medical Purposes -Question of 

Exploring the Possiblities of 

obtaining Mercury from China , 

Kashmir or Hongkong. 

Censorship interception. Letter 

Prince peter of Greece, Athens to 

Mr. F.H. Gravely, D.S.C. Supdt. 

Madras, Eqmore, Madras, 

Situation in Denmark of the its 

occupation by Germany. 

Decision following a request from 

the Polish consul General to 

infoirm him when it is necessary 

to Take action against any of his 

fellow countrymen and to treat 

him with greater .......... 

Progs., Nos. 8(17) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(203)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(28)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Decision thsat remittances to 

Branches of Bank of Indo-China in 

Progs., Nos. 27(13)-W, 

French Colonies which have 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

declared for Zenl de Gaulle should 

bot be Stopped. 

Expiry of Foreigners ordinance 

1939. Foreigners Act 1940(3) 

Change of name by foreigners. 

Progs., Nos. 6-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Censorship Interception. Alleged 

issue of passports belived to have 

Progs., Nos. 11(476)-W, 

been obtained from the 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Portuguese authorities in Goa, for 

Africa. 

1) Repatriations of officers & 

ratings of Roumanian Tankes who 

avived at Bombay from Madrasa. 

2) Policy of H.M.G. towards 

Roumanias. 3) Luternment of 

Nicolae Dragostine &a batch of 11 

Progs., Nos. 20(31)-W, 

others Roumanians to the Central 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Internment Camp Dehra Dun. 4) 

Decision of G/I to make a 

reference to the Govt. of the 

country concerned through 

diplomatic channels in cases of 

where differently in obtaining 



WAR 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

passport facilities is likely to be 

experienced. 

Enquiry from the Spanish Consul 

Bombay regarding the welfare of 

the Italian engineer Mr. Luigi 

Acampora a counsellor of the 

Italian Aeronetical Society, Progs., Nos. 20(38)-W, 

WAR 1940 

supposed to be in a concentration 1940(Secret) 

camp in Ceylon . 2) Spanish 

Consul Bombay asked to make 

enquiries through the Spanish 

Consular authorities in Ceylon. 

Enemy subjects in employment of 

govt. officers decision that the 

should be sent to parole 

camps(case of miss Houni Boeck 

a German Governess in the 

employ of Mr. H.P.Tollinton 

Peshawar.) 

Amendments to Provincial 

Instructions for the Control of 

Foreign in war review of the 

amendment to paragraph 42 & 

43of the amendments to 

paragraph 42 & 43 of use 

Detaining officers War 

Insttuctions (India). 

Telegrams from Bata Shoe Co. 

Nalanagar India to the Prime 

minister London thanking for 

recognition of Czeehorsoan 

National Council as provincial 

Gzeeberok Govt. 

Enquiry by Madame Y.R. Gasbele 

, Pondichery , regarding times 

and dates of air mails and 

ordinary mails for Indo-China. 

Censorship interception. Dutch 

Shipping. 

Censorship Interception- German 

propaganda photographs sent to 

India from Copenhagen and 

Budapest. 

Progs., Nos. 20(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 10(14) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(165)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(60)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

15 

16 

17 

18 

19 

20 

Censorship Interceptions- Letter 

from Messrs. N.V.Fabriak Van 

Chemische, Production Holland, 

to Messrs. A. Sheth &Co. Baroda. 

Marine Insurance Premium and 

Freight rates. 

Progs., Nos. 11(87)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Export Trade Control - Jute 

manufactures to Thailand. Control 

Progs., Nos. 14(27)-W, 

on the export of gunny bags from 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Thailand. Suspected smuggling of 

ganny bags into Indo-China. 

Activities of Maulvi Ghulam 

Ghans. Question of his detention 

under the Defence of India Rules 

26(1)(b) of (2) Concument para 


India Rules relating to Defence of 

British India and Public order. 

Suggestion that Central 

Government should be consulted 

in cases concerning Foreign 

Consular officers. (3) 

Amendments of rule 26 of the 

Defence of India rule. 

Censorhip Interceptions. A. 

Osborue, a well brown barrister of 

Lahore, in Bangkok. Regarding--. 

Suggestion that he night the of 

sue to M.J. 

Suggestion by the Resident , 

Kashmir that copies of 

documents, instructions etc., 

forwarded to him by the External 

affairs Departments should not 

bear endorsements to the effect 

that they should supplied or 

communicated to the Hunza and 

Nagar States. 

Censorship Interception. 

regarding 1. Purchase of Gold 

worth Rs. 10,000/- by Turkish 

Ambassador, Kabul. 2. A 

Viennese girl named R. Mossl 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(474)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10 -W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(394)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 



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21 

22 

23 

24 

25 

26 

27 

28 

29 

30 

31 

living some sort of cosmopolitan 

life in Istambul, Turkey, 

Afgahanistan. 

Prohibition on the export of mica 

from British India. Action taken in Progs., Nos. 14(16)-W, 

WAR 1940 

regarf to the areas under the 1940 

External affairs Deptt. 

Censorship interception. Tramsfer 

of money by Japanese from India 

to Japan. 

Censorship interception Linseed 

Oil from Basrah to Osaka. 

Censorship interception Tents for 

Iraq Army Tenders invited --- 

India. 


60A of the Defence of India Rules 

to Flag officer Commanding Royal 

India Navy and to any Naval 

officer in Charge. 

1. War Risk (Goods) Iusmam 

Ordiance, 1940 and Rules and 

Orders made Thammadu. 2. 

Extension of the ordiance to the 

areas made in Control of the E.A. 

Department and the Indian 

States. 

Progs., Nos. 11(309)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(265)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(288)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret)(1) 

Miscellaneous Censorship 

Progs., Nos. 11(27)-W, 

Interception regarding Mica, Beryl 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

one etc. etc. 

Censorship Interception. Probable 

existence of coal mines and 

natural current in Afghanistan 

Indian coal for Greece. 

Censorship interception. Gas 

Maks for Burma. 

Progs., Nos. 11(402)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(317)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

3. Certificates of origin in respect 

of Swedish goods. 4. Importation Progs., Nos. 7(6)-W, 

WAR 1940 

of goods of Dutch origin withour a 1940 (Secret) (C) 

Certificate of origin and interest. 

Censorship interception. 1. 

Shortage of Gasoline in Japan 2. 

Progs., Nos. 11(187)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



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32 

33 

34 

35 

36 

37 

38 

39 

Supply of Gasoline for Madras and 

Bombay. 


Progs., Nos. 11(401)-W, 

regarding Irish American Potential 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Fifth Column, Bahrein. 

Censorship Interception regarding 

shipments of tea from Ceylon to 

Iran. 

Progs., Nos. 11(65)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Censorship interception regarding 

Progs., Nos. 11(374)-W, 

public and private accounts of the 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Japaneese Legation in Iran. 

Censorship interception. Hansa 

Line. 

Censorship interception 

Yokohama Specie Bank Ltd., 

Karachi, Despatch of A/c 

statement by --- to different 

Branch all over the world. 

Inclusion in the cover for New 

York two Inner corres for Berline 

and Paris. 

Censorship Interceptions- 

Telegram from Achille Lauro, 

Naples to the Captain of the 

Steamer Gabbiano. Fuel for 

Italian Ships. 

Enquiry made from Messers. S. 

Dorabjee and Sons of Bund 

Abbas, by Sorgor and 

Tennermann of Bremen a German 

firm regarding import into 

Germany of Castorseed. 

Enquiries made regarding the 

alleged despatch by the Afghan 

consul General at Delhi & the 

Afghan Passport Office at 

Peshawar of their Dak in 

diplomatic bags to Kabul and the 

alleged inclusion of letters by the 

Afghan officials in the Afghan 

diplomatic bags from Jalalabad to 

the Afghan Consul General at 

Progs., Nos. 11(336)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(278)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(88)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 18(14)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 



WAR 

40 

41 

42 

43 

44 

45 

46 

Delhi. 

Censorship interception. German, 

born and Italian born member of 

crews on American Vessels. 

Possibility of their coming into 

contact with German in Goa. 

Restriction on the export from 

and import into Burma of certain 

commodities. Notification 

received from the Burma Govt. 

Releaseof stationery detained by 

the Calcutta customs authorities 

consigned by the Ebshard Faber 

Pencil Company of Brooklyn New 

York. 

Possibility of High Explosives 

having consuled in Stocks of 

Preserved food in the Horses of 

German Agents. 

Progs., Nos. 11(339)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 14(36)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

War Supply Organisation (1) 

reorganisation of the Supply 

Department(2) Functions of the 

Supply Department, and its 

Purchasing organisations and the 

capacities of Industries in India 

for meeting Overseas 

requirment(3) Indenting of 

Demands for Machinery reguired 

for the Defence Services(4) 

Accounts and Audit requiared for 

Progs., Nos. 8-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

the Prosecution of War -Allocation 

of Expenditure (5) increase in 

contiact Princess due to unstable 

conditios; fixation of Prices during 

war. 

Control of foreigners on War- 

Activities of Basel Mission Socielty 

Progs., 

Manager Treatment to the 

1940 

accorded to enemy missions and 

missionaries. 

Nos. 6(3)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Amendment of Rule 54 of the 


Defence of India Rules, regarding 

WAR 1940 

1940 

the control of possession, use and 



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47 

48 

49 

50 

51 

52 

53 

disposal of arms etc. 

Thailand. 4. Proposal of the Thai 

Government to establish in 

Thailand a factory for the 

manufacture of Gunny bags. 

Censorship interception. Despatch 

to the Japanese legation, Kabul, 

of a blank Cheque book by the 

Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd, 

Bombay. 

Progs., Nos. 29-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Confidential) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 11(194)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship of communication to 

and from Franch and japan in the Progs., Nos. 

Event of Outbreak of war with the 1940(Secret) 

Countries. 

67(4)-W, 

WAR 1940 

in respect of the censorship of his 

official mails for the Netherlands 

Authorities abroad when posted 

from a place other than Delhi. 

Censorship Interception letter 

from Mr. Kambora, Sales 

Manager, Toyoda Automatic Loom 

Co., c/o M.B.K. Calcutta, to Mr. 

K.Toyoda Akasaka Ku, Tokyo. 

Late of Japanese Textile 

machinery in India. 

Censorship interception of a letter 

from the Military of 

Communication, Tokyo, to 

Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and 

Telephone, Afghanistan Kabul, 

regarding Radio Telegrams and 

Radio Telephone services direct 

between Japan and Afghanistan. 

Question wheather money found 

with the German Consular Staff at 

Calcutta was Nazi Party 

Propaganda fund . Decision that 

the Staff should be allowed to 

take with them the ammounts 

standing to their respective 

Names. 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret(C) 

Progs., Nos. 11(110)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(157)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1939 

1939(Secret) 

327 Censorship interception regarding Progs., Nos. 11(213)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

328 

329 

330 

331 

332 

333 

334 

policy of the Thai Govt. in 

connection with permits granted 

to Foreign air being crossing their 

Territory. 

Censorship interception. 

Broadcasting station, Thai 

Govt.`s contemplates to 

purchase---. 

Establishment of a fortnightly 

Official Pouch service between the 

U.S.A. Govt and their consuls in 

India Burma and Ceylon. 

Instructions issued to the Censor 

and Customs authorities 

concerned to pass the pouches 

without censorshiop 

Question of Supply of Assistant 

foreman for Indian Ordiance 

factories and Also Personal 

requaired for the War Work. 

Censorship Interception of 

Correspondence between the 

Afghan National, Bank, Kabul and 

the National City Bank of New 

York, New York. 

Censorship Interception 

Netherlands Dutch East Indies 

and the Dutch neutral opinion 

Holland forms of payment. 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(324)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(22)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(435)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(415)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Complaint received from the 

Polish Consul General at Bombay 

regarding delay in the delivert of 

letters addressed to him by his 

own nationals in Kabul. Decision 

Progs., Nos. 18(27)-W, 

that Letter addressed to the 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Consul general by nationals of his 

Govt. in Kabul should be allowed 

to pass without delay and that 

only a small percentage should be 

Censored 

Service of intellectual assistance 

to prisoners of war initiated by 

the International Bureau of 

Progs., Nos. 37-W, 1940 WAR 1940 



WAR 

335 

336 

337 

338 

339 

340 

341 

Education. 

Censorship interception. Qari 

Obedullah of Ahdyan, Suspected 

Soviet Agent in Kabul, receiving Progs., Nos. 11(295)-W, 

WAR 1940 

letter from India, Through Mohd. 1940 (Secret) 

Tahir Jan Banjara, Kabul, Order to 

Censor all letter to Mohd. Tahir. 

Restriction imposed on the 

disclosing of information by 

shipping companies and their 

agents regarding the requisioning 

of Ships by Govt. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Norway 

and Norwegians. 

German internee from Iraq. The 

Swiss consul general at Bombay 

as the representative of the 

protecting power in the case of 

the Iranian consulate in Iraq as 

the authority in charge of the 

interests in Iraq of -------. 

Use of diplomatic mails for 

transmission of shipping 

documents covering private 

transaction. Question of examing 

the Diplomatic Mails of Thai Govt. 

and the Consular mails of certain 

foreign consuls in India. Foreing 

consular Officers in India 

informed that priveleges granted 

to them under postal and 

telegraph censorship would be 

withdrawn..... 

Request made by the Spanish 

Consul-General Nombays for the 

repatriation of the Sanitary 

personel who were sent to India 

along with the Italian Prisoners of 

war. 

Enquiries regarding the transfer 

of the stocks of the Fez Co., Ltd., 

Strakonice, Czechoslovakia to 

Messers. Indo Egyptiana Cairo. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(465)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(33)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret)(A) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 27(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

Correspondence of Herbert 

Zucker regarding this transaction. 

Distribution of the reprint of the 

Defence of India Act. and Rules to 

Progs., 

342 the Political authorities with which 

1940 


concerned. 

Nos. 7(26)-W, 

WAR 1940 

343 

344 

345 

346 

347 

348 

349 

350 

Cansorship Interception regarding 

Japaneese interest in Indian 

Economic conditions. 

Progs., Nos. 11(384)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Decision that notification which 

may be issued by the External 

Deptt., Political Deptt., on the 

Defence Co-ordination Deptt., 

Proclaiming the outbreak of war 

with any Country, Should be sent Progs., Nos. 39(15)-W, 

WAR 1940 

for publication to the Press by the 1940 (Secret) 

Defence Coordination Deptt., on 

behalf of the other two 

Department. Case of the 

decluation of War between His 

Majesty and Italy. 


aircraft industry in India, and 

abroad. 

Restrictions etc. on the export of 

Wool to the United Kingdom. 

Progs., Nos. 11(134)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(15)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

1.Employment of G. 

Seheweinooter , agerman Jewish 

internce , by the Consul General , 

Netherland s after archives Work. 

Progs., Nos. 97-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

2. Examination of the Documents 

enchanged between the Consul 

General Netherlands and the 

internce. 

Censorship interception. Impost 

of old Newspapers into India. 

Censorship interception. New 

trade routes via Basra. 

Censorship interception. Italo- 

Afghan Correspondence Italians 

in Afghanistan before war broke 

Progs., Nos. 11(276)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(357)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(229)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

351 

352 

353 

354 

355 

356 

357 

358 

359 

360 

out with Italy. 

Facilities to Indian Studen for 

education in the United Kingdom. 

Progs., Nos. 31-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

in view of General World Shortage 

of this Nukal. Aluminium control Progs., Nos. 

Order 1941.its adoption by Indian 1940(B) 

States. 

66(4)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Information supplied to D.J.B. 

regarding one Dr. Lindberg an 

agent of Wassmuss the German 

Consul in Persia during the cost 

Great War. 


Fews. 

Control of the Financing of the 

Sea-borne export trade of India. 

Censorship Interception- Letter 

form Tea Estates Ltd., 

Coimbatore, to Albert Grimm, 

Swiss Consul, concerning a 

consignment of five tons of tea 

going to the Swiss War Food 

Office, Berne. 

Application from Heirrich Beng for 

permission to leave India. His 

arrest and detention under 

Foreigners Act, 1940. 


from Iry watch Factory, 

Switzerland to Messrs. F. 

Schwerzmanu and Co. Rangoon 

German Watches. 

Appointment of and Delegation of 

Powers under Defence of India 

Rules to the Electrical 

Commissioner with the 

Government of Ladies. 

Information regarding Hydro- 

Electric Schemes in British India. 

Cmplaint received through H.Ms. 

Ambassador Tokyo from 

Libermann Waelchali & Co., a 

Progs., Nos. 20(35)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(232)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(20)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(160)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

361 

362 

363 

364 

365 

366 

367 

Swiss firm reinclusion of their 

name in Indian stated list of 

enemy firms. 

Censorship Interception- (1) 

Letter from Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs, Rome to Ernesto Soso, 

Delhi. (2) Circular from Italian 

Consul General, Bombay giving 

an account of territorial 

jurisdiction where correspondence 

is being done by different Italian 

Consulates in India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(59)-W, 

WAR 

1940(Secret) 

1940 

Proposed Evasion of Cansorship 

by Landing in Telegrams on Board Progs., Nos. 10(5) -W, 

WAR 1940 

Ships in Port for transit after 1940(Secret) 

Ships Departure. 

Question of delegation of powers 

under clauses(a)-(c) of Subsection 

2 of 3 of the Foreigners 

Act, 1940 to Chief Commissioner 

Baluchistan etc. Decision thta at 

present the delegatio of these 

powers to Chief Commissioner 

Baluchistan etc. Decision that 

......... 

Censorship Interception. The 

Afghan American Trading Co. 

registered in Panama--- 

Information re.-- obtained 

documents carried by Mr. Syed 

Karim Khan, C/o Afghan Nationa, 

Bank, Karachi, who arrived at 

Karachi Sea Plane port in Ceres. 

Censorship interception. Afghan 

Sympathy for victims of German 

Aggression. 

Censorship interception letter 

from C. DaSilva, Rome, Italy to 

Dr. George DsSilva, Tubbualpore 

regarding importation into India 

of German Govt. proceed in Italy. 

Request of the censorship 

authorities in London that copies 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 11(437)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(248)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(137)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

368 

369 

370 

371 

372 

of financial in trust should be 

forwarded to them if of Particulars 

interst by the Quickest route 

vailable otherwise by Nominal 

Route. 

Censorship Interception Telegram 

from Coment Co. Chhatak 

(Sylhet-Assam) to Sabang Coal 

Company Sabang, (Batavia) 

regarding trade with enemy in 

Cement & Coal. 

Raising of Mechanical Transport 

companies for the Indian Army 

from the Indian States. 

Information Supplied to Indian 

States regarding the recruitment 

of Motor Mechanics in the Indian 

army, 

Progs., Nos. 11(48)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Offer of services for enlistment in 

the British Army by Jose Maria da Progs., 

Silva Vicera a Soldein of the 1940 

Portugese Army and his wounder. 

Nos. 13(5)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Transfer of the firm of Messers. 

Molnar & Greiner from 

Amsterdam to New York under 

the name of China-American 

Paper &Pulp Coy. Permission 

granted to the .............. 


Interception Information 

regarding the opening of 

Kunmanko, a new Japanese post. 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(355)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship Interception of letters 

regarding imports of Japanese 

Progs., Nos. 11(111)-W, 

373 cloth to Afghanistan and the Near 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

East against exports of raw cotton 

to Japan. 

374 

375 

Control of Foreigners in India. 

Amendments to the Enemy 

Foreigners Order 1939. 

Arrangement with the Borweign 

Shipping Association regarding 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 4-W, 1940 WAR 1940 



WAR 

376 

377 

378 

379 

380 

381 

bunking etc. facilities to Swedish 

vessels in Indian ports during the 

present war. 

and Bombay may be permitted to 

exchange telegrams in code or 

any language with the Navla 

Commander Batavia to enable 

them to send and received 

information about movements of 

ships. The Consul General 

informed that the two Consuls 

concerned should obtain 

information regarding movement 

of Dutch shipping from Naval 

Authorities at Indian ports direct 

and that any Special 

Germans in Nepal were managing 

to send Thai letters to Germany 

or any other Country. 

Censorship Interception letter 

from compagnia Farmaceutica 

S.A.Milano, Italy to Mr. 

S.W.Kenkre of the Drogheria 

Luso-Indiana of Goa, suggesting 

to trade in enemy goods from 

Goa to India. 

Presentation or sale to Govt. of 

Suitable Binaculars , Prismatic 

Compasses and Services 

revolvors for the Indian Defence 

Service.2. Withdrawl of Service 

Pistols and Revolvors from 

Military Officers servicing in 

Department of the Govt. of India 

and Political Department. 

Reports regarding undesirable 

personnel discharged and 

dismissed from the Indian Army. 

Abuse of official Legation address 

of the Italian Legation Kabul, in 

their correspondence by some 

Germans. 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(422)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 11(115)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 




WAR 

383 

384 

Armaments, trade between 

Various Countries. 


from Paul R. buergin, Shanghai, 

instructing some other firms to 

use codes in their 

correspondence. 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(356)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


for the Italian Consulate, 

Calcutta, to the Italian Consulate, 

General at marscilles regarding 1. Progs., Nos. 11(189)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Italian enterance into war and 2. 1940 (Secret) 

Mr. A.C. Kukherjee`s writing 

entitled A Study of British diploma 

in Central India. 


from Michzin Trading Co., Tokyo, 

to Messrs. Volkart Bros., (Copy of 

Progs., Nos. 11(144)-W, 

385 Cochin Branch) regarding the firm 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

of Titan Kogyo K.K. who are 

working with a certian percentage 

of German Capital. 

386 

387 

388 

389 

390 

Censorhip Interceptions. 

Construction of broadcasting 

station in Iran. 


Valdimir Cervinka, a Czech 

Engineer of Suspicious activities 

in Skoda works, Kabul. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Poland 

and Poles. 

Summary of important war 

matters dealt with in the External 

Affairs Department upto May 

1940. 

Detention by Postal cenior 

Bombay of a Parcel conterim in 

baby typewriters received from 

Switzerland for Mr. Keel a Swiss 

Merchant of Kabul who is 

suspected to be trades with the 

enemy. 

Progs., Nos. 11(457)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(373)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(468)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

391 

392 

393 

394 

395 

396 

397 

398 

399 

400 

Embodment of certain Portions of 

the Anscitary Force(India) in the 

Madras and Bombay and certain 

Progs., Nos. 62 -W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Battalions of the I T.F. in Bombay 

on the Punjab to Support and 

Supplement the Regular Force. 

War Trade Lists :- Black List of 

Firms and individuals in Japan 

Compiled by the Netherlands East Progs., Nos. 

Indies Government. 2. 

1940 (Secret) 

Despatches veceived from 

Batavia regarding. 

34(9)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Arrest of a Russia named 

Wladimir Zesserman under the 

Foreigners order 1939, 

Correspondence between Foreign 

office, London and Minister Kabul 

regarding the inclusion of the 

Names of Certain firms in Kabul 

in the War Trade List. 

Internment of M. Traverso, an 

Italion Subject. 

Information summaries received 

from Chief censor in India. Bos. 

21 to 34 for the period from 

February 1940 to June 1940. 

Enquiries made by the Brazilian 

Consul at Calcutta and the 

Spainish Consul at Bombay 

regarding Italian Internees. 

Rules regarding the restrictions of 

foreigners in the parole cartra at 

Purandhar. 


General regarding the detention 

by censor Authorities of a code 

telegram despatched by him to 

foreign ministry Kabul at 

beggining of the war. 

Delegation of Powers to crtain 

Postal Official to Serch for certain 

classes of Goods in the Course of 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(15)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

401 

402 

403 

404 

405 

406 

407 

408 

409 

transmission by Port. 


regarding Japanese personnel 

(Businessmen), etc. 

Censorship interception of 

correspondence from or to Herr 

Keel, Kabul 

Contribution towards H.E. the 

Viceroy`s war Puposes Fund by 

Mr. Abdur Rahim Khan second 

pilgrimage clerk Jeddah Legation. 

Internment of FathIrzioluing 

Maghiaini an Italian priest in 

Baharin deported to India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(114)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(364)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 16(16)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 20(21)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Instructions to Norwef , 

Baluchistan , Punjab , Assam and 

Gilgit that they should take action 

Progs., Nos. 

in respect of areas with which 

1940(Secret) 

they were concerned on receipt of 

certain Communications from 

Other Departments Direct. 

69-W, 

WAR 1940 

Detention of franch shipping 

Prohibition on export to French 

territories in Europe including 

cossica etc., Enquiry of the 

Consul-General Pondicherry 

whether the Gvernment of the 

French and Portugese India are 

........ 

Decision that reports based upon 

intercepted letters from 

Frenchmen in Indo-China should 

be sent, through H.M.`s 

Embassy, Cairo, to General 

Catronx, General de Ganlles 

delegate General for the east 

Discussions, with M. Dardand. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Spain 

and Spanish Morocco. 

Censorship interception. Enemy 

Trading M. Shins of Holland 

Trading from U.S.A. 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 11(443)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(472)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(293)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

410 

411 

412 

Censorship interception. Boris 

Schapiro. Regarding the grant of 

Visa to ---- 

Progs., Nos. 11(298)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception of an 

extract from Postal and Telegraph 

Progs., Nos. 11(191)-W, 

censorship Suevey re. condition 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

in Japan given by an Englishmen, 

from Kache. 

Censorship interception. Japanese 

enquiry about crane-facilities at 

Indian and Eastern Ports. 

Progs., Nos. 11(270)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Protest by French Consul General 

Calcutta against the declaration of 

Progs., 

413 French territories as Enemy 

1940 

territory and stoppage of his 

telegrams. 

Nos. 56(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

414 

415 

416 

417 

418 

419 

420 

Censorship interception Rama 

Bros., Radio House, Poona, Agant 

for Collnis Raido Company, Sowa, 

U.S.A. 

A leaflet entitled German official 

News received from India office 

giving Separate and conflicting 

accounts of events on a certain 

date as issued by different 

German authorities. 

3.Question of employment of 

Joseph Zahorsky , a Czech 

nationals in Afghanistan. 4. List of 

Czetch technicians who arrived in 

India. 

Burma, Control opf Prices Order, 

1940 and amendments thereto. 

2. Amendments to the Defence of 

Burma Rules. 

Censorship interception Economic 

Situation of the word. 

Censorship interception. Disposal 

of Cargo on Italian Ships in Thai 

territory walters. 

Censorship Interception of a letter 

from M.B.K. Bombay, to 

Progs., Nos. 11(252)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 9(2) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(156)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(369)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(62)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

421 

422 

423 

424 

425 

426 

427 

428 

429 

430 

431 

Engineering Department, Tokyo 

regarding Afghan Government 

scheme for erection of a new 

spinning factory. 

Control of foreigners in India. 

Registration of citizens of 

Danzigas Germans. 

Preparation for the evantuality of 

War with Japan. Action taken on 

detantion of war with Japan 

Control of exports & detention of 

Shipping etc. 


from Chinese Consul General 

Rangoon to Bbot Tai Hru, 

Chungking, Buddhist Mission to 

Thailand. Situation in Bangalore 

with regard to Chinese. 


Japaneese Diary Report. 


Statement of Shipments from 

India to Neutrals as revealed by 

intercepted telegrams. 

Instructions Started during the 

War. Protection againest Unfair 

competition from Outside India 

after the War to. 

Censorship interception. Sugar--- 

- Matter regarding---. 

Censorship interception. Swiss 

engineers for the Afghan Govt. 


from Charles Bodaux, 

Amsterdam, Holland, to Mr. John 

Moore, Bombay regarding gold 

passessed by the U.S. 

Censorship interception. Messrs 

Jack and Eileen---English 

Travellers in Iran. 

Censorship interception of all 

Correspondence to and from Soc. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(1254)- 

WAR 1940 

W, 1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(379)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(257)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(266)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(218)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(143)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(313)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(376)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

432 

433 

434 

435 

436 

437 

438 

439 

General De Surveillance, S.A., 

Geneva (Switzerland) 

Enquiry whether a czech named 

Buldra in Kabul received letters 

from England and Germany via 

India without Censorship. 

Question that all inland mails 

received and despatched from (i) 

Chaman and (ii) allport offices on 

the Mirjawa-Nobbundi Quetta 

route should be censered at 

Quetta. 2. Enquiry by D.S. 

wheather the Afghan visa officer 

was granted consular Privileges 

over Instance. 


from K.G. Viroomal & Co. Kobe to 

Karam Chand Viroomal, 

Hyderabad (Sind), regarding 

trade relations between Japan & 

India. 

Censorship Interceptions 

regarding Contraband Control. 

Scheme of British subjects from 

Parts of Balkhans & Possibility 

also the near & Middle East. 2. 

Attachment of Mr. Macereth to 

H.Ms. Study of the above 

Problem. 


trading in Hides and Skins. 

Emergency W.T. Suials in 

Merchant Ship registered in 

British India. 

Attitude adopted by the Bombay 

branch of Messers. Blundell, 

Spence & Co., Ltd., in respect of 

their representation in Bangkok 

by Messers. Hans Geyer a 

German firm. The employment of 

Messers. Hans Geyer as the firms 

agent in Bangkok terminated. 

Progs., Nos. 10(18) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(36)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(86)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(56)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

440 

441 

442 

443 

444 

445 

446 

1. Bringing into the ambit of the 

Defence of India Act., 1939, acts 

designed to preudice- (a) His 

Majesty`s relations with Indian 

States. (b) The maintenance of 

peaceful conditions in the tribal 

areas. 2. Distribution of the 

copies of Defence of India 

(Amendment) Act 1940 (Act XIX 

of 1940) to the authorities under 

the External Affairs Department. 

Mons. G. Monod Huzar Should not 

be employed in Govt. services in 

British India & the Indian States. 

British bamks in neutral countries 

doing business for enemies. 

Mercantile bamk of India Ltd. 

Bangkok Yhailand. 

Bookets, Pamplets etc. received 

from Belgium consul General in 

India regarding events ledding to 

the surrender of Belgian army. 

Censorship Interception letters 

from Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, 

Hsinking, Manchukuo to their 

Dairen, Bombay and other 

branches, regarding the 

prohibition of trade in & 

caltrivation of opium in 

Manchukuo and Kwantung. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Letter 

from Allah Bakish Zia, internce at 

Mardan, Late translater, 

Afghanistan motar Co, Kabul to 

Abdul Waheed Khan, Director 

Afghanistan Motor Co. Kabul, 

regarding the formers arrest in 

India. 

Delegation of powers under rule 


to the Officers commanding the 

military and Air Force Stations. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (A) 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 

Progs., Nos. 54-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(116)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(447)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

447 Recall of officers from leave out of Progs., Nos. 45-W, 1940 WAR 1940 



WAR 

448 

449 

450 

451 

452 

453 

India on the outbreak of war. 

Question of translating the 

Defence of India Rules into the 

Principal Provincial languages. 

1) Regulations promulgated by 

the German Govt. in connection 

with the war. 2) German trading 

with the enemy legislation. 3) 

German decree ordering 

registration of property in 

Germany of British, French 

Egyption Iraqi and Sudanian 

nationals. 4) German decree 

calling for declaration of certain 

categories of Enemy Property in 

occupied France. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Export Trade Control -Scrap Iran 

tinplate Scrap &Steel. Question of 

the disposal of tin-plate clippings 

stock at Goa. Restructions on the 

Progs., Nos. 14(28)-W, 

export of certain minerals & ores 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

(Gomeore) to Japan. Export of 

controlled goods to Netherlands 

East Indies- restrictions unposed 

& Subsquentily relaxed. 

Request of the British Consul 

General , Pondichery to allow 

Persons in the French 

Establishments in India to send 

letters to occupied France through 

Progs., Nos. 

M/s T. Cook & son. Procedure to 

1940(Secret) 

be followed by persons in French 

India to Senf letters to occupied 

France through.(a) M/s Thomas 

Through(b) Indian Red Cross 

Security. 

67(9)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Telegram from Sinha Rangoon to 

Dr. Martin Bangkok. 

Censor Interceptions, regarding 

America and Americas. 

Progs., Nos. 11(85)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(301)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


Progs., Nos. 11(412)-W, 

454 from Faiz Mohd. Afghan 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Ambassador to Turkey, Ankara, to 



WAR 

455 

456 

457 

458 

459 

Abdul Samad Khan, Afghan 

Minister at Rome, regarding 

conditions in Europe. 


from J.R. Doodehoefren, Batavia 

to het Dagblad Amsterdam. 

Increase in the export of D.E.I. 

Products to Vladivostock, Russia. 

Cansorship Interception of a 

telegram from Kabushikima, 

Bombay, to Luke Thomas and 

Co., Aden, regarding Japaneese 

piece goods. 

Request by the Spanish Consul 

incharge of Italian interest to 

furnish him information regarding 

the health and general welfare of 

Italian interns on reodel printed 

Corps. 

Censorship interception. Caution 

in dealing with Japan and 

Japanese firms, Exercised by 

certian Banks, and Company. 

Progs., Nos. 11(95)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(381)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(30)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(308)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


from B.G.H. van Der Jaagt(a 

Dutchman) Great Eastern Hotel, Progs., Nos. 11(96)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Calcutta to Mrs. J.L.van Der Jaagt 1940(Secret) 

Muller. Royal Dutch Shell 

Employers of Holland. 

Offer of his services by Mr. Cotton 

aformen Director of the Ethopia 

Natiral Bank inconnection with the Progs., 

460 

possibility of the ex-emperorof 1940 

Ethopia formenting revolt against 

Italine regime there. 

Nos. 13(6)-W, 

WAR 1940 

461 

462 

463 

Censorship interception. Situation 

in Iraq. 

Progs., Nos. 11(312)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception. S.S. 

Progs., Nos. 11(281)-W, 

Anfora--- an Italian club in 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Mormugao Rangoon Cargo on----. 

Censorshop Interception of 

Correspondence from 1. Nur Ali 

Progs., Nos. 11(430)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

464 

465 

466 

467 

468 

469 

Khan Peshawar to Mulla Ruhulla 

C/o Hakim Sahib, Achin Shinwar, 

Afghanistsan and 2. From an 

anonymous writer to Sahib Abdul 

Wahid Khan, Village Kherda, 

Jalalabad, regarding activities of 

1. Mullah Nurullah and 2. Bahadur 

Khan, respectively alleged British 

spies in Afghanistan. 

Evaenuation of Rest Iran in the 

Event of Local Disturbance there. 

Decission that British Officers in 

East Iran should remain in their 

as long as they Possibilly can. 


Instructions issued to Censorhip 

authorities in India, to withhold, 

in Censorhip all copies of the 

persian newspaper Koshish which 

contained objectionable and pro- 

German article. 

War Courses at the State College, 

Quetta. 

Export Trade Control Export of 

Sheliac to Thailand through Thai 

Niyom Panich Company of 

Bangkok for probable reexport to 

enemy countries. Restrictions 

imposed. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(449)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 36-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 14(42)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Censorship interception. Export of Progs., Nos. 11(222)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Sal ammoniac from India, to Iran. 1940 (Secret) 


from K. Fedorenko, Shanghai to 

V. Primakor, Secunderabad 

(Decan) Request by the four that Progs., Nos. 11(209)-W, 

WAR 1940 

the later send for Stephan 1940 (Secret) 

Fedorenko from Harbai to India, 

In order to save him from Military 

training. 


from Mario Ungaro, Kabul, to Progs., Nos. 11(439)-W, 

470 

WAR 1940 

Watson Riccardo, Italian Internee, 1940 (Secret) 

Ahmednagar. 



WAR 

471 

472 

473 

474 

475 

476 

477 

478 

479 

480 

Censorship interception. Purchase 

of Shipping by the Tahi Govt. 


from Mario Marfabeon, Addis 

Abbaha, to Sig. G. Boccia C/o 

Italian legation, Kabul Italian 

Pilots. 

Refusal by the Govt. of India to 

Permit the Use of Persian Phrases 

in Telegrams sent by the Afghan 

National Bank(India) Peshwar, to 

Afghanistan. 


Japanese Trade. 

Progs., Nos. 11(249)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(158)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(121)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Enemy Firms -Messagenics 

Maritime -Madras branch of. 2)--- Progs., Nos. 

--------------------- -Ceylon 1940(Secret) 

branch of. 

27(8)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Complaint by the Consul General 

for Poland at Bombay about the 

Censorship of a letter addressed 

to him by a Pole in Simla 


from Mark Schaffer of Budapest 

to Alexander Kovags in Calcutta 

regarding trade in good of 

German Origin. 

Censorship interception. Italian 

Cargo-Ship S.S. Hidda, Cargo of 

Arms, Ammunition, of Waf Sugar 

for Iran. 

Censorship Interception. Letters 

from the Afghan Consul General, 

to various handed newspapers in 

India, asking for the reasons for 

their non-receipt in Application. 


Telegram from Robert Feames, 

Djeddah to ford Motor Co., 

Alxandia regarding dealing with 

Ford Motor Co. 

Progs., Nos. 18(20)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(102)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(305)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(372)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(464)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

481 Declaration of the ``Khyber`` as Progs., Nos. 7(38)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

482 

483 

484 

485 

486 

487 

a protected area under Rule 8 of 1940 (Secret) 

the Defence of India Rules. 2. 

Delegation of Powers under rule 9 

of the Defence of India Rules to 

the Brigade Commander, 

Landikotal Brigade Area & the Pol. 

Agent, Khyber. 

Visit of the Chief censor to the 

E.A. Dept. to dicuss as to what 

king of information on Censorship Progs., Nos. 11(433)-W, 

WAR 1940 

intercepts should he supplied by 1940 (Secret) 

the Chief Censor office to the E.A. 

Dept. 

Complaints received from the 

Consul Genl. regarding the delay 

Caused in the Delivery of a 

telegram addressed to him by the Progs., Nos. 19(8)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Netherlands Foreign Minister 1940 Secret(B) 

London. Request of the consul 

Genl. that the Honorary Consuls 

for the Netherlands at Calcutta 

Enquiry made by the Egyption 


Consul General Bombay regarding 

WAR 1940 

1940 

lack of shipping spare. 

Expeditionary Force supply 

service organized by Thomas 

Cook and Son Ltd. 

Complementary by the Consul 

General for the Netherland 

regarding the incorrect statement 

made by the Government 

Solicitor at Calcutta in respect of 

the invasion of the Netherlands 

by Germany in a petition in 

connection with Prize Court 

proceeding at Calcutta. Govt. 

Solicitor instructed to file an 

applicatio to the court for 

amending the statement in the 

petition. 

Information in respect of 

American Securities held by 

pensons in India. 2. Submission 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

488 

489 

490 

491 

492 

493 

494 

495 

of Returns by Share and Stock 

holders to Reserve Bank and 

liability for non-Compliance. 3. 

Sale of Wollor Balances held by 

British Subjects to Reserve Bank 

obligatory. 


from M.M. Almujaddadi to S. 

Almujaddadi Showing, how 

private letter find their way to 

diplomatic bag. 

Progs., Nos. 11(359)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Defence of Indian Rules. 

Delegation of Powers under rule 


of the Commander of a Brigade 

Progs., Nos. 

1940 (Secret) 

7(14)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Area and any officer Commanding 

a Station. 


the agreement between Germany 

and Shirkate Pushtoon (the 

Afghan Fruit Co.) for the 

monopoly of Afghan Fruit. 

Censorship interception New 

Railway Line between Mosul and 

Bagdad. 


International Red Cross Society. 

Information Service for war 

Victims British Red Cross Postal 

Messgage Scheme. 

Probihitionon the export of goods 

to Bata concerns outside British 

India. 

Censorshop Interception of a 

letter from Moghadam, Kabul, to 

Fried 55 West, 42 Street, New 

York, regarding closing from of 

Afghanistan --- American Trade 

Routes. 

Organisation of District War 

Committee and Civie Guard-Civic 

Guard`s Ordinance, 1940. 2. 

Progs., Nos. 11(371)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(253)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(314)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(24)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(423)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

496 

497 

498 

499 

500 

501 

502 

Subscriptions towards Indias` 

War Effort. 3. Proposed increase 

in the Strength of Baluch Levy & 

formation of Civie Guards in the 

Baluch Tribal area of Punjab. 

British Military and Naval Ship 

movements. Hampering 

observation of Japanese Consular 

Agents. 

Question of allowing the ex- 

Italian Consular Staff at Aden to 

send telegrams to Italy. 2. 

Decision not to forward the 

telegrams but to communicate 

their substance to the Spanish 

Consul at Bombay. 

Amendments to Rule 39 of the 

Defence of India Rules regarding 

persons possessing confidential 

information or any prejudicial 

report likely to of benefit to the 

enemy. 

Amendment to the Political Deptt. 

War Book. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 39(13)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


regarding cotton shipments to 

Scandanavia-Shanghai-Japan. (2) Progs., Nos. 11(70)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Afghan cotton trade-American 1940(Secret) 

cotton trade with Scandanavia. 

(3) Lack of shipping space. 

Export trade control in 

Baluchistan martime states of 

Kalat and Las Bela. Proposed visit 

by the Political Agent Kalat and 

an officer of the Commerce Deptt. 

to the Mekran ports with a view 

to finding out the extent to which 

the various export and import 

restrictions are being enforced. 

Decision that ............ 

Closing of the firm of Sind Work 

Merchants of Hyderabad at 

Nepals and Tripoli etc., and 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

503 

504 

505 

506 

507 

508 

internment of their employees at 

Rome by the Italian Govt. 

Question of the interument or 

confinement to the Parole centre 

of persons in India who were of 

enemy Origin on or before the 

31st December 1932 and 

thereafter have acquired different 

nationality whether British or 

foreign. 

Censorship interception. Schlieper 

and Siemens --- the German 

Firms. 

Complaint by the French Consul 

General Calcutta regarding the 

Opening by Censor of His Official 

Letters received from Radio- 

Saigon. Instructions issued that 

Correspondence between Radio- 

Saigon and French Consular 

Officers in India be passed 

without censorship or delay 


correspondence of certain firms 

regarding trade in minerals. Offer 

of minerals to Japan by a Mysore 

firm. 

Progs., Nos. 20(14)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(335)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(104)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


from Schweizerische 

Kreditanstalt, Zurich, to Banke 

Millie Afghan, Kabul. Attempt to 

transfer of money from England 

to an enemy subject. 

Progs., Nos. 11(21)-W, 

WAR 

1940(Secret) 

1940 

Collection for Consolidation and 

publicity of up to date figures 

total remittances made from India 

to U.K. for1. Purchase aircraft 

and2. relief of London Air raid 

Victims.2. Collection for record of 

India`s total financial War 

Effort.3. Monthly accounts of the 

Baluchistan War Fund 

Progs., Nos. 16(13)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

509 Activities of a German-American Progs., Nos. 11-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

510 

women named Ettenburg, an 

alleged German spy and a 

passenger on board S.S. 

`Kenya``. Extracts from a 

censored letter. 


Japan Belgian Credits. 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(400)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Inter Departmental discussions on 


511 Enemy Trading Liaison & Export 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Trade Control. 

512 

513 

Expediency of wroking rule 121 of 

the Defence of India Rules in 

prosecutions under any of the 

Rules when a substantial 

contravention of the Rules is not 

capable of being established. 


Afghan Property at Basra. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(398)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception. American 

Progs., Nos. 11(310)-W, 

514 Eastern Co., Alexandria. New 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Shipping Services. 

515 

516 


Progs., Nos. 11(197)-W, 

Restriction on the export of castor 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

and other oil seeds to Japan. 

Contribution by the Wali of Swat 

to H.E. the Viceroy`s War 

Purposes Fund and placing his 

personal services those of his son 

and the entire resources of his 

state at the disposal of the Govt. 

517 Only slip is available. 

518 

519 

520 

Censorship interception. Export of 

casing to U.S.A. and Lisbou. 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(16)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(219)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception of letter 

from Royal Afghan Consulate, 

Progs., Nos. 11(358)-W, 

General, Simla, regarding Kamal 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Khan, an Afghan subject who was 

wounded in Peshawar. 

Examiniation of voluntarily 

diverted neutral transit mails. 

Instructions regarding censorship 

Progs., Nos. 11(38)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

521 

522 

523 

524 

525 

526 

527 

528 

529 

of diverted Eastward bound mails. 

Censorship Interceptions--regarding 

Saudi Arabia. 

Censorship interception. Indian 

Coastal Shipping. 


Instructions, to U.S Steamers as 

regards cargo for the Italian 

Posts, on the out break of war 

with Italy. 

International Situation reports 

received from the Secretary of 

State for India London. 

Delegation of Powers under rules 

105-107-110 and 111 of the 

Defence of India Rules to the 

British Indian Controllers of 

Enemy Firms. 

Prohibition on the export and 

import from and into British India 

of certain commodities 

Amendments to Commerce. 

Department notification No. 65- 

C.W.(20)/39, dated the 25th 

November 1939. 

Bombay representative of 

Messers. Molnar & Greiner to 

trade with the Shanghai branch of 

the firm. 

Internment of Mr. Per Olaf Killen 

a Norweigan Subjectr under the 

Foreigners Act, 1940. 

Arrangements for carrying 

consignees mails in ships boxes of 

the vessels carrying the goods to 

which such documents relate. 

Revision of the above 

arrangements in order to avoid 

mail smuggling in neutral ships. 

Decision that such documents 

need not bear postage stamps. 

Progs., Nos. 11(444)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(343)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(269)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 1-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

530 List of Casualties in the Indian Progs., Nos. 62(3) -W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

531 

532 

Army. 1940 


trade in Rubber. 

Progs., Nos. 11(54)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Prize Procedure. Disposal of 

cargoes on enemy slups in rentral 

Progs., Nos. 43-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

ports. Disposal or proceeds of 

prize. 

Enquiry about the name and 

other Particular of German firm 

which approached Mesers. 

Twyford and Son Ltd. Tientsine 

for the purchase of Shellae. Progs., 

533 

enemy intimation from H.Ms. C.G. 1940 

Shanghai that the from in 

question was Messers. Reuter 

Brochelmen and companys 

trintrues. 

Nos. 48(4)-W, 

WAR 1940 

534 

535 

536 

537 

538 

Offer of services by two Polish 

doctors numerly Dr.Stanislaw 

Kouarski and Dr. Ansebel Issler, 

in connection with war. Decision 

Progs., 

1940 

Nos. 13(4)-W, 

WAR 1940 

that the atlus should not be taken 

in the Indian medical Services. 


Percentage of German amongst 

Europeans international 

community in Japan. 

Censorship 

interception.Telegrams from 

Black, Bahrain, to Iheodoli, Rome 

Morine Officer for Basrah and 

Bahrein. 

Progs., Nos. 11(367)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(182)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception. Telegram 

from Iudin, Karachi to Fawide- 

Amama, Kabul, Stating that no 

employment was available at 

Karachi. 

Progs., Nos. 11(188)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 

Offer of his services (recd. 

through the British Legation 

Kabul) by Mr. Rahmin Tadguoft a 

naturalised British subject-for 

enlistment in the Royal Air Force. 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

539 

540 

541 

542 

543 

544 

545 

Action taken by the Govt. of India 

on the request of the Narvegian 

Consul-General regarding the 

disposal of holidays abroad 

belonging to Norwegian banks or 

private persons in areas occupied 

by German. 

Evasion of Censorship in getting 

certain books fro m India, by 

members of Japaneese and 

Italian Legations etc. in Kabul 

through Messrs. K.A.Gai of 

Peshawar. 


from Bagnano Italy to Captain 

Giovanni Volpe C/o. Italian 

Consulate Madras, asking him to 

be ready for going to Alexandria. 

Request from the British minister 

Kabul to India office to grant 

permission for transmitting to Mr. 

Alfred Ploudt, a German few and 

ex-employee of the Afghan Govt. 

of his money reposited with 

German-Jewish aid society, 

London. 


Evacuation of the American 

employees of Indian Oil 

concessions in Egypt and their 

family to Basea. 

Supply to the Thai Consul 

_General , Calcutta for 

transmission to the Govt. of 

copies of Notification issued by 

the Govt. of India regarding 

restrictions imposed on the Taing 

or Sending money out of India 

and Burma. 

Suspicious that certaingoods 

slupped to Kuweit were being redirected 

in transit via Iraq to 

Syria. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(63)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(89)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(20)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(217)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 120(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(31)-W, 

WAR 1940 




WAR 

546 

1.Question of the Location of 

additional staff in Simla directly 

attributable to the Preporation of 

daily and Weekly Summary. 2. 

Decision that in Future one copy 

of the Daily Summarries should 

be sent to the Defence 

coordination Department , instead 

of the Usual three copies. 

Progs., Nos. 

1940(Secret) 

108-W, 

WAR 1940 

Declaration of ultimate 

destibation in respect of goods 

the export of which is prohibited 

Progs., Nos. 14(19)-W, 

547 except under a license. 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Certificates of Guarantee from the 

Swiss Govt. as evidence of an 

Import License granted by it. 

548 

549 

550 

551 

552 

553 

554 

Censorship inter Caption, 

Japanese Shipping. 


Afghan Finance. 

Review of War Events-Reports 

from High Commission for India 

London to the Economic Advisor 

to the Govt of India. (December 

1939 January & February 1940) 

Progs., Nos. 11(291)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(256)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Decision that the German 

subjects in Kabul may utilise their 

Progs., 

blocked accounts in India for 

1940 

payment of their bills due to 

certain firms in India. 

Nos. 20(9)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Restriction on export to Indo- 

China. Trading transactions with Progs., Nos. 14(32)-W, 

WAR 1940 

French Indo-China, and other Von 1940(Secret) 

de Gaulle French Territories. 


trade with France-German 

Propajanda in Tehran, Persia. 

Progs., Nos. 11(297)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception Teak, 

Rice and Maize Requirement of Progs., Nos. 11(259)-W, 

WAR 1940 

certain Countries in regard to----- 1940 (Secret) 

. 

555 Complaint made by Mr. M.B. Progs., Nos. 10(16) -W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

556 

557 

558 

559 

560 

561 

562 

563 

Hunter of Kabul through the 

British Legation, Kabul regarding 

the carelesness of the Censor 

authorities at Peshwar. 

1940 


from Nic Rodiades, 115, 

Royianon, Athens to Mr. George 

Rodiads, C/o Ralli Brothers Ltd., 

Murmagao, regarding war 

condition in Greece. 

Progs., Nos. 11(423)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 


Japaneese Commercial Actitities. 

Arrangements for funds from 

Italian Govt. to meet the missing 

charges of three war 

correspondents so that they may 

be treated as officer Prisoners of 

War. 


Burmeese Foreign Trade. 

Reports and Statements 

regarding the number of 

Prosecutions, convictions, 

detentions, etc. under the 


Supply to the Salute States with 

which E.A. Department is 

concerned ofa Publication Entiled 

Summary of Decussion and 

recomendation made on the 

Question of central of Prices and 

control of commodity Exchange 

by the 5th Markting Conference, 

1939. 

Censorship measures imposed in 

Aden. 

Restriction on the export out of 

British India to army place 

outside India or Burma of certain 

commodities. Action taken in 

regard to areas under the control 

of the External AAttaing Deptt. 

Progs., Nos. 11(178)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(215)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 9 -W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

564 

565 

566 

567 

568 

569 

570 

571 

572 

573 

574 

2. Decision that the cost of 

remitting Victoria Rupees from 

Aden to Bombay should be borne 

by the Govt. of India and that 

Aden Should meet the cost of 

transmitting coins from Bombay 

to replace this currency. 

Censorship interception. The 

Ahmaduja Anjuman Isha at 

Islam, Lahore--- and Islamie 

Propaganda Soviet. 

Restriction on Exports. Refusal of 

the Govt. of India to permit the 

Governor of French India to allow 

the export of Synthetic Indigo to 

Shanghai. 

Staring of Short Wave Worlo 

Programmee from Australia. 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(299)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(26)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Procedure adopted for the 

treatment of bamking accounts of Progs., 

British subjects detained in 1940 

enemy territory. 

Nos. 54(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(199)-W, 

about difficulties of the Bata Shoe 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Co. in India. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Iraq and 

Polesture Regarding---. 

Restrictions on the movements of 

Dr. Schimalgon a Russian 

subjects under the Foreigners Act 

1942. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Situation 

in Greece. 

Permission granted by the C.E.T. 

the export of Shallac. from 

Calcutta to Messers. F.E.Zuellig a 

local swiss firm in Manila. 

Internment of Mr. S.G. Stromgren 

a Swadish subject under Section 

7 of the Foreigners Order. 

Decision to release Mr. Stromgren 

and to allow him and his wife to 

Progs., Nos. 11(473)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(469)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(35)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

575 

576 

577 

578 

579 

580 

581 

leave India. Decision to let them 

proceed to Basra. 

Press note reminding the public 

that the use of codes in army 

written correspondence ex-India 

is forbidden under the Defence of 

India Act, 1939. 

Censorship interception. Silver 

Miscellanies matters regarding. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(286)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Transmission to Monsiur G. 

Brimann, a German interuce in 

Ahmadnagar, ofa letter written by Progs., Nos. 10(4) -W, 

WAR 1940 

the N.V. De. Bataa fche 

1940 

Pertrolium Maatchapping the 

Hague. 

Censorship of Telegrams between 

Kalat and Lasbela state and 

Karachi. pasni, Jiwani and 

Ormara. 2. Officials of Kalat and 

Lasbela states requested to be 

extremely particular in the 

wording of the clair wireless 

messages passing between 

Karachi and Pasni, Jiwani, and 

Ormara. 

Enemy of information regarding 

sailing dates of Shipping. Policy 

orders containing instructions to 

cessons India regarding 

censorship of telegrams relating 

to shipping and ships or 

passengers movements. 


Genl. that his peon who took the 

Offcial dak of the Consulate 

General to the Office of the Chief 

Censor was asked to affix postage 

stamps on the Covers and to 

have themin that office. 

Censorship interception export of 

cotton goods from Shanghai to 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(255)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 18(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret)(C) 

Progs., Nos. 11(131)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



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582 

583 

584 

585 

586 

587 

588 

Treatment accorded to the Italian 

Consular Officers in India, on the 

declaration of War with Italy. 2. 

Refusal of certain members of the 

consular party to be repatriated 

to Mozambique and their wish to 

be repatriated via Iran and 

Russia. 3. Arrangements made for 

the repatriation from India to 

Lisbon of the Italian Consular 

Officers in India, Aden and 

Burma. 


WAR 

1940 (Secret) (A) 

1940 

Coordination of the demands for 

Engineering stores requaired for 

Military Purposes. 

Supply of clothing from India for 

British Prisoners of War, 

Budapest. 

Renewal of acceptance by 

Thisland of optional clause 

Provided in the Protocol of 

Signature concerning the statute 

of the Permanent court of 

International Justice , for a 

further period of ten Years from 

the 7th May , 1940. 

Protected Places and areas. 

Amendement of rule 9 of the 

Defence of Indian Rules, 1939. 

Protest of Italian Consul General 

about censoring of mails on 

Italian ships calling at Bombay. 

Consuls genl.stationed at Simla 

Informed of the arrangements for 

exemption from Local Censorship 

of inland official correspondence 

emanating from their respective 

offices. Request by the Afghan 

Consul General that postal 

Articles emanating from this 

consulate general May be 

exempted from being endored by 

the censor. 

Progs., Nos. 8(11) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 8(21) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(58)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret)(B) 



WAR 

589 

590 

591 

Contribution to the War Fund by 

H.H. the Agha Khan & his son 

Prince Ali Khan. 

Progs., Nos. 16(17)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

2. Reprisals Orders-in-Council- 

Restricting German and Italian 

trade- Enemy mercant Shipping, 

Aircraft and goods therein. 


Application of the Reprisals Order 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (B) 

to goods which are enemy 

property but which cannot be 

regarded as being in the nature of 

enemy export. 


correspondence about bookss and 

newspapers for Soviet 

Ambassador, Kabul, showing 

Russia Interest in Afghanistan 

and India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(378)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 

the War. Request to authorities 

emernd that copies of Baluchistan 

Agency Aden Report Sikkim State Progs., Nos. 

592 

Aden Report should not be sent to 1940(Secret)(B) 

any Neutral Country during the 

War. 

26-W, 

WAR 1940 

593 

594 

595 

596 

3. Decision that no special 

defination of `Ìndian States``, 

``Rules`` and ``Tribal Areas`` 

are required in the Defence of 

India Rules. 


Japanese Special Envoy to the 

South Seas and India. 

Refisal of the claim made by Mr. 

MeMarko Dominitz a Polish 

national through the consul 

General for Poland for the refund 

of passages money paid to 

Messers. Lloyd twiestno at 

Cracaw, Poland. 2) Refusal to 

avarage a passages for Australia 

for Mr. & Mrs. Marko Dominitz. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (b) 

Progs., Nos. 11(420)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(19)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Mr. A. Dorgensem of Horim - Progs., Nos. 115(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Enquiry regarding letter from East 1940(Secret) 



WAR 

597 

598 

599 

600 

601 

602 

603 

604 

605 

Asiatic Company Ltd. in Shanghai 

to East Asiatic Co. Ltd. , Madras. 


from Ganz & Co. Ltd., Budapest 

regarding supply of Railway cars 

for the N.W.Rly., India, and send 

Hungarian technicians for 

supervision. 

Enquiry from the British Legation 

Kabul regarding Despatch of 

Letters from Afghanistan to 

Holland via India and Italy. 

Progs., Nos. 11(118)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(8) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Supply to High Commissioner for 

India of copies of all orders made 

by the Provincial Govts. under the 

Progs., Nos. 

Defence of India Act or Rules, 

1940(Secret) 

which are not published in the 

official Gazette are also published 

separately. 

22(3)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Enemt Trading - Parcel from 

A.SG. Tehran to Herr Hassenstein 

Kabulan enemy subjects. 

Utilisation of the Medicinal stocjer 

held by Messers. Scherring 

(India) Ltd. 

conduct transactions with 

representative of the Bank in 

Indo-China or branchesunder His 

authority. 

Censorship interception. Use of 

Mission code in Telegrams from 

New York to Teheran. 

Censorship Interception received 

from India Officer, Landon, 

regarding the routing of telegram 

for Denmark, Norway, Sweden & 

Finland, via United Kingdom. 

Report by the Hon`ble Sir Mohd. 

Zafrulla Khan on his visit to the 

United Kingdom to attend the 

Conference of Representatives 

from British Dominions and India. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 27(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(271)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(40)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 



WAR 

606 

607 

608 

609 


French Indo-China. 

Enquiry made by the Swiss 

Consul General regarding the 

welfare of certain German 

interness. 

Progs., Nos. 11(328)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(18)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Instructions issued by the 

Commerce deptt. that Cases of 

non-interned enemy subjects who 

Progs., Nos. 20(13)-W, 

have wish to trade or carry on 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

business should be refused to the 

Controlle of Enemy Firms 

Bombay. 

Proposed arrest of Dr. 

Raghunandan Lall Madan (at 

present in Germany) under the 

Defence of India Rules after the 

arrives in India. Refusal of 

passport facilites to the German 

wife of the above doctor. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Confidentail) 

Request by India Office , London 

to forwarded letters , received 

Progs., Nos. 10(9) -W, 

610 from Belgium Embassy , 

WAR 1940 

1940 

addressed to Germans Interned in 

India. 

611 

612 

613 

Enquiry made by the Defence Coordinatin 

Department as to what 

action is being taken by the E.A. 

Departement to implement the 

Statutory, Black and Suspect 

Lists. 


Sulphur Mine in Afghanistan. 


Detention of a telegram from 

vichy diplomatic to French 

Minister at Kabul, Aking to refuse 

visas to Frenchmen detained for 

French Equatorial Africa, 

Cameoon, New Caledonia, New 

Burmswick Hebrides and Fr. 

Estab. of Oceanic. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(391)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(448)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

614 

615 

616 

617 

618 

619 

620 

621 

Treatment to be accored to the 

Officers & crews of Danish Ships 

sized in prize in Indian Ports. 

Position of the Netherlands 

oversees terotories during the 

war. Lists of More important 

netherlands whose head offices 

have been transferred to the 

Netherlands Indies. 

Bank of Indo-China. Blocking of 

the accounts with banks in India 

of the Bangkok Branch of the 

Bank. The funds released on an 

assurance given by the Managr of 

the Bangkok Branch that without 

the formal authority of His 

Britannic Majestys Legation he 

will not accept direction or ........ 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 58-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 27(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 



Reneweal of Postal order service 

between Greece and Portugal on 

American Dollar basis. Re- Progs., Nos. 11(419)-W, 

WAR 1940 

expedition by Germany of letters 1940 (Secret) 

on ordinary P.C.`s to Belgium 

from countries that are not at war 

with Germany. 

Telegrams intimating the 

outbreak of War with Italy, 

received & issued to authorities 

concerned by the Defence 

Department. 

Arrest and intrument of Stamatis 

canbouris(holding a Greek 

passport under the Foreigners 

Act,1940). 

Progs., Nos. 39(16)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Treatment of Danes and 

Norwegians. Decision not to allow 

Benedixsen a Danish subject 

suspected of pro-German 

Sympathies, to return to 

Afghanistan. 

Progs., Nos. 41-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Censorship interception. Evasion 

of Currency Control in India, 

Progs., Nos. 11(185)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

622 

623 

624 

625 

626 

627 

628 

629 

630 

Despatch of currency and 

Valuables from India, to Amercia. 

Censorhip Interceptions. German Progs., Nos. 11(462)-W, 

WAR 1940 

influence in Romania and Holland. 1940 (Secret) 


Suspicious telegrams on various 

subjects 


from Dr. L.A. Khan, Canton, to 

the Editor, the Daily Qadian, 

Punjab containing photos of the 

New Puppet Chineese Govt. set 

up by Japan. 


International Moslem 

Correspondence Club, Cario. 

Censorship interception. Burma 

China Road. 

Arrangements for the official mail 

bags of the Italian Consular 

officers at Bombay and Calcutta 

to be shown to the Preventive 

Officer before placing on the 

outgoing ship. 

Progs., Nos. 11(223)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(161)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(245)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(326)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Refusal of the request of the 

Japanese Consul General Calcutta 

for the grant of permission to 

despatch to Tokyo four boxes 

containing gramophone records 

two Remington typewriters and 

two copies of the Civil Court 

Manual. 

Progs., Nos. 14(33)-W, 

WAR 

1940(Secret) 

1940 

Consorship Interception- Printed 

Japanese circular from Japan to 

various harbours bodies in India 

& British Empire, enquiring 

detailed information on Indian 

Harbours. 


Criticizing on Censorship in India, 

letter of the Netherlands Consul 

General, Simla. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(234)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

631 

632 

633 

634 

635 

636 

637 

638 


the affairs of the Societa 

Commissioneria. 

Detention of Norwegian and 

DDasnish ships in British 

Harbours under British protection. 

Preventing from sailing of all 

Swedish Finnish and Latavian 

ships in British Ports. Treatment 

of Norwegian Ships. 


Italian Shipping ---- Transfer of 

cargo from German to Italian 

Ships. 

Censorship Interception- 

Telegraph code sent by the 

Ottomane Bank, Istanbul to the 

Afghan National Bank, Kabul. 

Request from the Brazilian 

Consul, Calcutta, for the 

repatriation to Italy of Prog. Maria 

Montession, and her nephew Mr. 

Mario Montesano Montessori, an 

Italian of Spanish nationality. 

Request not granted. 

Detention by the Censorship 

authorities Minister , Kabl to 

Afghan Legation Revised Question 

wheather the detention was in 

Order. 

1.Censership interception of a 

letter from Madame Didot wife of 

the French Consul Genral, 

Calcutta to John H. Spengler, 

Chiefs , enclosing copies of his 

letter to her Soni Piere in France 

& of Monsied Didot letter to 

madame Camatta in France--- 

4. Question of the disposal of 

consular funds held by a Foreign 

consul at the time of declaration 

of War with his country. 

Progs., Nos. 11(375)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(262)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


1940 (Secret) 

WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 10(11) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(20) -W, 

WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (B) 



WAR 

639 

640 

641 

642 

643 

644 

Attention of the consul General of 

Afghanistan drawn to the non- 

Compliance by the Afghan Consul 

Karachi of instructions issued by 

the Govt of India in regard to 

sending of telegrams. 

Progs., Nos. 18(13)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


from Messrs. J.G. Palet &Co., 

Ahmedabad, to Messrs. Phoenix 

Dye Works, Chicago, regarding 

enquiry for German Dyes. 

Progs., Nos. 11(74)-W, 

WAR 

1940(Secret) 

1940 

Interument and release of 

members of Society of Divine 

Word Indore. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Supply of copies of Defence 

Regulations 1939 and of the list 

of emergency Acts and Statutory 

Rules and orders by the High Progs., Nos. 

Commissioner for India London to 1940(Secret) 

Deptts. of the Govt. of India and 

the question of meeting the cost 

of these publications. 

22-W, 

WAR 1940 

3)Enquiry from the North Western 

Frontier Provinces Government 

regarding measures for passive 

air defence and defence against 

Progs., Nos. 

parachutists in the North Western 

1940(B) 

Frontier tribal areas at places 

other than Miranshah. 

Classification of Military 

.............. 

49(7)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Refusal by the Govt of India to 

grant concessions to vice Consul 

for China at Bombay under 

telegraph and Postal Censorship. 


WAR 1940 

1940 Condidential 


Correspondence regarding 

sabotage on allied ships, A French 

Progs., Nos. 11(261)-W, 

645 Consular Communique from Indo- 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

China to Consul General Calcutta 

regarding German Machine for 

sabotage. 

646 Supplies of Textiles and Other Progs., Nos. 8(9) -W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

647 

648 

649 

650 

651 

652 

items requaired to clothe the 

Staff employed in Various official 

and Semi Official Services. 

1.Establishment of Proviential 

Advisory Committee for War 

Supplies. 2. The Duties and 

representation of Indian States 

and Baluchistan on the Supply 

Advisory Committees. 

Information given to the Consul 

General Batavia thai Bata 

concerns in India have been 

placed under supervision under 

Rule 101 of the Defence of India 

Rules. 

Censorship Interception. Letters 

from Afghanistan to Bolira, within 

in Spanish, Suggesting an in 

equalr use of diplomatic mail 

bags. 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(440)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Amendment of paragraph 4 of the 

Foreigners order 1939 regardsing 

the entry of foreigners into and 

their departure from British India. 

Requirements to be observed by 

foreigners (except foreign 

diplomatic representative and 

consular officers) on entry into 

and departure from India. (Case 

of Mrs. Dankersloot, .......... 

Progs., 

1940(A) 

Nos. 6(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Censorship Interception of the 

correspondence Between U.S New 

York and Minister of Education 

Kabul, regarding the suggestion 

of the Turkish Ambassador, to 

pay 200 dollers to Mr. payne for 

travelling expenses in the U.S.A 

to find collateral mortagagebonds 

for Afghanistan. 

Enquiry by Under Secretary 

wheather the Political Resident in 

the Persian Gulf is furnished with 

intruction pertiring to war 

Progs., Nos. 11(425)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

653 

654 

655 

656 

657 

658 

659 

660 

Measures. 

Amendments to Military 

Internment Instructions, 1939. 

Instructions regarding the grant 

of export licences to Danial firms. 

Progs., Nos. 38-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(43)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Forwarding of a letter from Revd. 

K. Heiberg o the Danish 

Missionary Society, Madras to the 

Ambassador, the Danish Legation, 

Stockhon, presumed to the for 

the Danish Ministry f pension, 

which appeared to the under the 

German Central Question whether 

it was not an Asian of censorship 

rules. 

Progs., Nos. 11(385)-W, 

WAR 

(Secret) 

1940 

Petition of Mr. R. Lanzoni an 

Italian inturn at Ahmednagar for 

special treatment and release in 

consideration of his alleged 

official position us a 

Representative of the Italian 

Govt. at Berbera. 

Progs., Nos. 20(36)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Decision to Permit 

correspondence with Persons 

enemy Territory through Thomas 

Progs., Nos. 10(7) -W, 

Cooh & sons Limits & the 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Redcross under certain 

conditions. The Redcross Message 

Scheme. 

Enquiry from the Portuguese 

Consul Shanghai whether he 

could send telegrams in code etc. 

to Portuguese Consulates in 

India. 


Afghan Military Affairs. 

Censorship interception. Circular 

the Chief Censer that 

correspondence between the 

grand Mufti of Palestine and 

Muslim bodied in India, regarding 

the transfer of money from India, 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(417)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(334)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

to the Grand Mufti, Should be 

brought to the notice of Chief 

Censer without delay. 


from Japaneese Trade Federation 

Progs., Nos. 11(109)-W, 

661 to Nippon Trade Agency, Calcutta, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

regarding Japaneese Trade 

Agents. 

662 

663 

664 

665 

666 

667 

668 

669 

670 

671 

U.S.A.Neutrality Act, 1939 and 

regulations thereunder. 

Appeal by the Relief Association 

for Belgian Prisoners and 

Internees, Switzaland, for funds, 

for the relief of Belgiam Prisoners 



the number of Japanese and 

other matters in Egypt. 

Restrictions on the export of 

Quinine & quinnie preparation 

from India by Sea a land. 

disposal of Indiaes surplus raw 

commodities and for advising on 

the problem of storage and 

exports 


from Ramsdorf, Germany to Rev. 

Father Friedi, Masing, Khandwa 

C.P. Military and Economic 

conditions, in Germany. 

Supply of information about 

internees in India to Prisoners of 

war information Bureau London 

for onward transmission. 

Censorhip Interceptions. S.S. 

Christos Markettos. Transfer of -- 

- to British Charter. 

Offer of services by Gentlemen 

formerly employed by enemy 

reiend but now unemployed. 

Progs., Nos. 2-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(471)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(403)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(39)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(C) 

Progs., Nos. 11(140)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(460)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Censorship Interception regarding Progs., Nos. 11(67)-W, 

WAR 1940 

trade between India, Persian Gulf, 1940(Secret) 



WAR 

672 

673 

674 

675 

676 

677 

678 

679 

Iraq and Burma. 

Ceremony ordiance (IV of Rules) 

application of - to Gilgit Sub 

Division. 


currency notes and coins from 


Censorship Interception-Letter 

Mohd. Ameen, of Khaksar Store, 

Toko, Bombay (writting from 

Celebes) to Inayat Ullah Khan 

Mashriqi, Lahore. Khaksar 

movement in Malaya. 

Censorship of telegrams and 

postal communications exchanged 

between India and Tibet. (2) 

Grant of an allowance of Rs. 50/- 

p.m. to a clerk in the office of the 

P.O. in Sikkim entrust with 

cencorship work. 


M. Bonneau, French Minister at 

Kabul. 


Anonymous letter to Director dos 

Caminhos de Ferro, Nova Goa, 

Portuguese India. Activities of 

these Pinto Teixeira and Jose 

Cabral in Mozambinque. 

Decision of the Close Down the 

Postal and Telegraph Station at 

Maduna & Postal Censorship 

Station at Negapatam. 

Progs., Nos. 61(7) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 120(3)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(73)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(382)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(15)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Grant of concessions to the 

Consul for Iran at Bombay 

Karachi under the Telegraph and 

Postal Censorship. Question of 

Progs., Nos. 18(12)-W, 

granting concessions under postal 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret)(A) 

and Telegraph censorship to the 

Iraqi Consul at Karachi. Complaint 

from the Iranian Consul at 

Karachi regarding the censorship 



WAR 

680 

681 

682 

683 

684 

of his mails (including Simla).. 


salt to Japan from Indian State. 

Prohibition of the export of 

certain goods toHunsgarg 

Yugoslovia, Roumiers Greece, 

Belgiumand Switzerland. 

Statement by the Chief censor 

that to avoid censership 

communications are brought by 

hand from Afghanistan and Nan 

to Chaman and Stations on 

Mirjawa -Nakundi-Quetta route 

and are then ported to addresses 

in India. 

Report suggestion that Aran 

Dhows are carrying ruller tin and 

other contrabad to Iranian ports 

for transhipment to Germany via 

Black sea. 

Progs., Nos. 11(323)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940 


Telegraph censorship Instructions 

issued to censorship authorities in 

Calcutta and Bombay to pass 

without censorship or delay all 

telegrams emanating from and 

signed by Col. J.Ichida the 

Japanese resident office in India 

during his stay at the above 

named places. 

Progs., Nos. 

1940 Secret 

19(9)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1.Request by the Consul General 

for Iran for Exemption of Shah Progs., Nos. 

685 

Murad son of Khamu from military 1940(Secret) 

Service in India. 

102-W, 

WAR 1940 

Escape and captures of Italian 

and German internees and 

prisoners of war escaped from the 

Internment camp at Ahmadnagar. Progs., Nos. 20(27)-W, 

686 

WAR 1940 

2) Refusal of the Governor 1940(Secret)(A) 

General of Portugese India to 

refuse entry into the Portugese 

........... 



WAR 

687 

688 

689 

690 

691 

692 

693 

694 

Grant of Permission to the Anglo 

Iranian Oil Company, Abden to 

correspond in Private telegraphic 

Code and by Means of registered 

telegraphic address, with the 

Three branches of the Burma 

Shell Company at Bombay, 

Madras and Karachi. 2. Change of 

telegraphic adress of the Burma 

Shell Company. 

Progs., Nos. 10(15) -W, 

WAR 

1940(Secret) 

1940 

Refusal to the request made by 

the Consul-Genl. for the 

Netherlands at Calcutta to grant 

permission to Lt. G.B. Baker 

R.I.N. to accommodate M.C. 

Hardebeck Hony counsul for 

Netherlands Cochin inface of the 

orders ....... 

Censorship interception. Activities 

of Miss E. Pagels, a Swiss and 

employed in the Japanese 

Legation, Kabul. 

Request by the Swiss Consul in 

charge of German Affairs, to visit 

periodically the Internment 

Camp. at Ahmednagar. Request 

Granted. 

Censorhip Interceptions of the 

correspondence of the crew of 

refugee, Steamers in Marmagoa. 

2. Detention of transit Mails, 

Addreseed to German and Italian 

nationals, in Goa. 

Supply of Goods town Sweden. 

Supply of electrical machinery for 

the Nepalese Government from 

Switzerland. 

Censorship interception. Cooper 

Alen and Co, Cawnpore. Indian 

Saddlery for Iran. 

1. Treatment of Italian Nationals 

in India in Case of war with Italy. 

2. Number of Italions in India. 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 11(214)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(446)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(333)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

695 

696 

697 

698 

699 

700 


supply of water Feasks and 

petrol, for Afghanistan. field in 

Manchuria bil situation in in 

Afghanistan Iran and Japan. 

Arabia oil trade with Japan. 

Censorship- Letter from Manila to 

Chief of Police, Bombay, 

regarding movements of Mrs. E. 

Hunefeld, a Leader of the Nazi 

women Organization Manila going 

to Itally with her two sons. 


from Bern. Fried & Sons 

Budapest, to Messrs. Campore 

Stores, Lahore regarding goods 

shipped or a German ship recalled 

to Bremen on the outbreak of 

war. 

Progs., Nos. 11(159)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(32)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(103)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


importation into the U.K. of 

Progs., Nos. 11(347)-W, 

British Bank Note. reported 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

importation into Gao of Germany- 

Owned Bank of England Note. 

Question of the transfer to Deoli 

Camp Jail, of persons detained 

under the Defence of India Rules 

at the instance of the Central 

Government. Transfer of 

Mohammad Ali, tea-Sella, 

Peshawar, from Amraot Jail to 

Deoli Camp Jail. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

The income tax (Removal of 

Difficulties and Validating ) 

Ordinance 1939 Discussions 

regarding the application of the 

Ordinance to areas under the 

Control of the External Affairs 

Deptt. Application of Income tax 

Law Amendment Act, 1940 (XII of 

1940) to British Baluchistan 

Decision that this Act need not be 

applied to other areas under the 

Progs., Nos. 15-W, 1940 

WAR 

Secret 

1940 



WAR 

701 

702 

703 

704 

705 

706 

707 

708 

709 

710 

711 

control of the E.A.Deptt. 

Censorship interception Gestapo 

Progs., Nos. 11(97)-W, 

Agents in Afghanistan. Indian and 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

other foreigners in Afghanistan. 

Censorship interception. Sicence 

Press. Japan objection to America 

sending their troops to Manilla. 


Establishment of a contact Bureau 

in Batavoi to help the Dutch 

community to get into touch with 

their relations, in Holland Chief 

Censors opinion that such a 

Bureau is a Potential Danger. 

Censorship interception. Proposed 

gifts of money from a German in 

Afghanistan to Germany. 



Censorship interception. Volkart 

Brothers. Order to the employees 

of --- not to contribute the war 

funds. 

Review of war events letters from 

the High Commissioner for India 

London to the Economic Adviser 

to the Govt. of India from March 

to June 1940. 

German propoganda foreigne 

request by C.G. for Poland to 

Check the circulation in India of 

the book entitled The Heroic 

battle of Poles. 


Japanese Consular Reports. 

Being sent in French or English 

distribution of the Pamphlet 

entitled list of Foreign Diplomatic 

designation to Various Censor 

Authorities. 

Censorship interception. Increase 

in the Demand of Plumbago. 

Progs., Nos. 11(202)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(226)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(175)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(303)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(246)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(129)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(307)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

712 

713 

714 

715 

716 

717 

718 

719 

720 

721 

722 

Seniormost Consular officers in 

India informed of the suspension 

of the above telegraph traffic. 

Memorandum on Ports & 

telegraphs censorship Policy etc. 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Control of monuments of the 

enemy foreigners at liberty. 

Decision that enemy women and 

Progs., 

children will bot be permitted to 

1940 

leave India by any route. Grant of 

maintenance allowance to 

dependents of interbess. 

Nos. 6(6)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Civil disturbance in Laghman, a 

district in Afghanistan. 


Norwegian Shipping --- 

Correspondence of Capt. Waller. 


Remittance to France for the Up 

keep of H.H. the Maharaja of 

Kashmir blood stock form at 

Question. 

Censorship interception. Enemy 

internees in Ceylon and India. 


from Mr.A.Crescini of the Italian 

Legation, Kabul, to his family in 

Italy, regarding method to evade 

censorship. 


from M. Partab, Editor, and World 

Federation Tokio to the Editor, 

Islah, Kabul, Anti-British 

Propaganda. Invitation to attend 

world federation, Center. 

Contribution by Sri Aurobindo and 

Madame Alfassa of Sri Aurobindo 

Ashram Pondicherry to H.E. the 

Viceroy war Purposes Fund 


mules from India to Turkey. 

Progs., Nos. 11(346)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(193)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(275)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(452)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(94)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(277)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(329)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

723 

724 

725 

726 

727 

Censorship Interception of letter 

from Mons. Dubois ex-French 

Consul about Singapore, the 

Royal Indian Navy etc. 2. 

Decision to allow a telegram from 

Mons. Dubois to Mr. Winston 

Churchills. 

Supply of Copies of regulations 

propaganda material posters etc. 

to the Consul Genl. for the U.S.A 

at Calcutta for use at the library 

of Congress at Washington. 


regarding trade in manganeese 

and chrome ore in India. 


letter from Dr. Herbert Cideon, 

C/o Lieberman Waelchi and Co. 

Kobe, to the Palestine Building 

Synidicate Ltd., Tel Aviv, 

Palestine regarding remittance of 

money to him in Japan by the 

above from of Palestine. 


conditions in China. China-Japan- 

India inter--relations. 

728 Only Slip. 

729 

730 


correspondence of Messers Tada 

and Genji Kobayashi, Japanese 

Engineer in Kandahar. Their views 

about Ressian aims. Treatment 

accorded to Japanese in 

Afghanistan. 

Progs., Nos. 11(409)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(76)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(432)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(345)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(57)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Nationnal Service(Europian British 

Subjects) Act, 1940(XVIII of 

1940). Supply of copies of the 

Progs., Nos. 61 -W, 1940 WAR 1940 

notification to Authorities in India 

with which E.A. Department is 

Cencerned. 

731 Enquiry from the Security of State Progs., Nos. 8(18) -W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

732 

733 

734 

735 

736 

737 

738 

for India , London if enough Wool 

is available in India for Supply to 

the Artitude of Carpet 

Manufacture New Work, without 

Jespardising the Supplies to the 

United Kingdom. 


Conditions in Saudi Arabia and 

Aden. 

Censorship Interception. Attempt 

to send mails to Germany via Iran 

by German salary in Marmagon. 

Enquiry by Dy. Secy. whether 

Enemy subjects in Goa were 

permitted to conspond with 

people in Germany and whether 

they were using service from 

India to Europe. 3. Enquiry by 

Foreign Secy. whether....... 

2. Denial of the alleged refusal of 

the Censorship authorities at 

Peshwar to accept Letters 

addressed to Sweden and 


Report received from Rangoon, 

Burma regarding Japanese war 

activities in the Neighbourhood of 

Burma. 

Intimation from the Secretary of 

State India that General Post 

office are at present without any 

means of disposing of telegraph 

traffic for Belgian Holland and 

Luxandurg. .............. 


from Java Pacific Line, 

Maatschappij, to Messrs. Volkart 

Brothers, Bombauy, reg: visit of 

Mr. J.C. Severiens to Persian Gulf 

Ports & Phillippine Islands. 

Expenditure incurred by the Govt. 

of Sind in connection with war 

during the Year 1940-41. on 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(458)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(422)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (A) 

Progs., Nos. 10(10) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 11(31)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

739 

740 

741 

742 

743 

744 

745 

746 

account of repatriation of German 

and Italian Parties from India. 


Telegram from Josef Bretis, 

Batanagar to the Czechoslovak 

Legation, London, registering 

intervention in recognition of 

Czechoslovak in India as allies 

and not enemy subjects. 


Correspondence between Messrs. 

Pohoomal Bros (India) cairo to 

their firm in Bombay Export of 

sovereigns into Egypt--regarding. 


by Luciano Petech, an Intalian, 

showing the use made of Italian 

diplomatic bags for the carriage 

of private correspondence 

between India and Italy. 

Training schools for Air Raid 

precautions workers. 

Restriction etc on the export of 

Jute and Jute manufactures to 

Phillipines. 

Difficulty of the Staff of G.P.O. 

Bombay in dealing with postal 

articles of various kinds 

despatched by foreign consul 

under one prescribed certificate 

an suspicion of the P.M.G., that 

covers cerified to be official 

correspondence may contain 

private letters. 

Censorship interception. Routing 

of Mails to certain countries from 

Burma. 

Censorship Interception. Letter 

from Nederlandsche Handal- 

Maatschappij N.V. Batavia, to the 

Banque Mellie Iran, Teheran. 

Progs., Nos. 11(466)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(216)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(44)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 14(40)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(184)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(441)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

747 

748 

749 

750 

751 

752 

753 

754 

755 

Maternal for labour works in Iran 

From Holland. 

Restrictions on telegrams to the 

Netherlands East Indies. 

Intimation that ban on the use of 

code and Cypher applies to 

private telegrams. 

Complaint from the Polish Consul 

Genera Bombay regarding the 

opening by Censor of a Cover 

sent to him from Karachi. 

Permission to allpw Mrs. Ducker, 

a German subject to land in 

Bombay in transit for Persia. 

Letters from Fr. Filchner(A 

German), Nepal to his daughter 

Mrs. Erica Schneider Filchner, 

Bombay and vice-versa. 

Censorship interception. Tour of 

Japanese Personnel to Europe. 

Appointments of controllers of 

Enemy trading, Controller of 

Enemy firms and custodians of 

Enemy property and Inspector of 

E.T. 

Information given by United 

States Embassy regarding the 

present distribution of British 

progress of war and civilians 

interned in Germany. 

Complaint from Dr. Oswall Urchs 

a German internee received 

through the Swim Consulate 

Genl. Bombay against the 

publication by the illustreated 

weeks of India of an article about 

himself & his activities in India. 

3.Discretion given to the Officers 

of the Indian Political Services to 

Surrender their Service revolvors 

to Government. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 51-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(170)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 50-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 20(25)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 





WAR 

757 

758 

759 

760 

761 

762 

763 

764 

765 

766 

Iraqi-Saudi Pact. 1940 (Secret) 

Reports on political Tendencies of 


the Egyptian Press. Distribution of 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

-for Propaganda Purposes. 

Suggestion given to Indian States 

to import or purchase goods of 

British Manufacture instead of 

goods of Foreign manufactures. 

Import into India by M/s Toys 

Mentra Kaisha Ltd. of Karacha of 

two Tubs of Japanese Sance for 

the Personal Use of the Japanese 

nationals working in Firm. 

Proposed ammendment to Rule 

90 of the Defence of India, in 

order to prevent the practice of 

boarding of rupee coins. 

Statement made by the Chief 

Consur , that Japan is Shipping 

mails and Goods to enemy via the 

Persian Gulf. 2. Decision that all 

Japanese mails should be held 

and Examined carefully. 

Decision that Belgian ships should 

be treated as Allied Ships. 

Progs., Nos. 46-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

1.Orders regarding temporary 

dislocation of Wireless Stations in 

the Event of Impending capture 

by an enemy or of Internal 

Disturbance in India. 2. Decision 

Progs., Nos. 

1940(Secret) 

64-W, 

WAR 1940 

to enforce wireless Silence , when 

an Emergency Ocures , within 

certain areas. 

Complaint of the Afghan Govt. 

Diplomatic Censorship in India of 

Afghan Diplomatic Postal Cover 

Addressed to Afghan Legation 

Tokio. 

British Emergency Powers 

(Defence) Act, 1940. 

Question of the application of the 

Indian Forces (Transfer) ordiance 

Progs., Nos. 18(19)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 61(4) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 62(6) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

767 

768 

769 

770 

771 

772 

773 

774 

1940 to Tribal areas etc. 


Correspondence regarding 

development, etc, of the free 

French Movement, in India, 

Ceylon. 

Progs., Nos. 11(442)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Arrangements for the Supply of Progs., Nos. 8(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Woolen Materials Saving the War. 1940 

Conditions for the Expendition of 

Lubricating Oils from United 

Kingdom. 

Property of Enemy subjects in the 

United Kingdom. Transfer of 

bamk balance in India to a bank 

in the United Kingdom of noninterned 

enemy subjects. .......... 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

German broadcast news 

regarding catching of fire in 

Shangbhi by the British Ship 

Progs., Nos. 24(10)-W, 

Above canjing 4,000 cotton bales. 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Enquiry from the British 

authorities in Shanghi regarding 

the facts of the incident. 

Proposal to amend Defence of 

India Rules so as to permit of the 

summary dismissal of Govts. 

servants who display anti- British 

and defeatist tendencies. Case of 


the dismisal from Govt. Service of 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (A) 

Mrs. B. Love, a clerk in the E. H. 

Department. Decision that a 

Govt. Servant becomes liable to 

be removed from Govt. Service 

under Classification Rule 49,... 

Restriction imposed on the 


Bringing into British India of Bank 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

of England currency Notes. 

Registration of Mr. K. Schouten 

(a) Dutch national) professor of 

Sugar Technology at the Imperial 

Institution of Sugar Technology 

Cawnpore, for military service. 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 



WAR 

775 

776 

777 

778 

779 

781 

782 

783 

784 

Enquiry from Netherlands Consul 

General whether the ............ 

Departure from India of Italian 

wonon. Question of allowing Mrs. 

Sara L. Tranchinia, a Dutch by 

birth and detained in the parole 

camp at Satara to go to 

Netherlands East India. 

b) Detention of French Shipping 

and neutral vessels bound for 

France or French shipping and 

neutral vessels bound for France 

of French possessions. c) 

Detention of Belgian shipping . d) 

Restriction on British and allied 

shipping calling at Indo-China 

ports. 

Supply of H. M`s War Trade. Lists 

to the French Consul Bombay. 

Question of forwarding a letter 

from an Italian internee, Capt. 

Donda of the S. S. Calbria, to the 

Brazilian consul regarding the 

seizure of his ship in Calcutta. 2. 

Letter forwarded. 


purchase of Hessian in the 

Turkish Republic. 

3. Application from Schular , wife 

ofa German Internce from Iraq 

for Permission to come India and 

Join her Husband. 

Question of the grant of export 

license to Omnipol (India) Ltd. 

Censorship interception. Indians 

in Japan. 

Decision of His Majestys Govt. 

that the territories comprising. 1) 

Certain parts of Poland. 2) 

Denmark (enchiding Greenland 

and forse Islands) 3) Norway 

(enchurding Northern Provinces). 

Progs., Nos. 20(34)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(200)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(3) -W, 

WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 14(23)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(320)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 



WAR 

785 

786 

787 

788 

789 

790 

791 

4) Netherlands (enshuding 

dependencies) 5) ......... 


from Pol. Nandlal Sharma India, 

to Mr. Rash Behasi Bose, Japan. 

Proposal to send Indian Students 

to Japan to cottage industry. 

Progs., Nos. 11(274)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

1. Enquiry From H. M`s Consul 

General Bankon in --requirements 

of Govt. of India for 

Gunny export license--- 2. Cases 

of the supply of gunny bags to 

Messrs. D. Couper Johnston and 

Co., and Kian Gwan. 3. Decision 

that Collector of Customs are 

Progs., Nos. 29-W, 1940 

WAR 

(Confidential) (A) 

1940 

authorised to Grant export licence 

for gunny bags to firms in.... 

Procedure for the Keeping of 

reserve stocks of heavy and 

chemical by the Provincial 

Govt.and States. 

3. Decision of the names of the 

American Trade Commission , 

Calcutta & the French Consul 

General, Calcutta for amongest 

the names of recipients of their & 

Similar notifications. 

Watch on the activities of a 

Jobannes Jarbous Bigl alleged to 

be anti British & Pro-Nazir and 

carrying mail for the Governer 

General of the Netherlands East 

Indies. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret)(2) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Report on Herr Kurt Butschek, the 

subject of a censored letter from 

German Consulate Tehran to 

Herrn Adol Denk, Johannesburg, 

Africa. 

Progs., Nos. 

1940(Secret) 

11(5)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Instructions issued to the 

Censorship authorities in India to 

pass telegrams exchaged 

between the Indian Red Cross 

and the Australian Red Cross and 

Progs., Nos. 19(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 



WAR 

792 

793 

794 

795 

796 

797 

Addressed by their abbrecirated 

addresses. 

New Route for Letters to 

unoccupied France by airmail via 

New York Lisbon. 2. Enquiry 

regarding-- by the Br. Consul 

General Pondichery. 3. Refusal to 

allow letters to be sent to 

unoccupied France via 

Suitzerland. 

Action to be ataen on the Out 

Brea of War with Bulgaria. 

Proposed routing of Air mail via 

Transpacific and Chiefs Service to 

Lisbon. 

``Who`s who in War Trade``. 

Supply to the Department of the 

Govt. of India by the Defence 

Coordination Deptt., of the copies 

of ------, received from India 

office. 

War and Marine Risk Insurance 

on Stores Supplied to authorities 

abroad through the Govt. of India 

or its. Supply organisation. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(19) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 34(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Censorship interception. Approach 

of a Russian Editor to exchange Progs., Nos. 11(279)-W, 

WAR 1940 

copies of the paper with an India, 1940 (Secret) 

Paper Chingan for one year. 

Misuse of the Afghan diplomatic 

mail for correspondence between 

Ina, Potsdam and Gabriet Kassab, 

Progs., Nos. 11(46)-W, 

798 Baghdad. Decision of H.M`s Govt. 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

that in view of outbreak of War 

with Italy no action need taken in 

the matter. 

799 

800 

Enquiry by the Polish Consul- 

General Bombay regarding the 

conficment of Dr. Erss and his 

family to Parole centre Satara. 

Progs., Nos. 20(39)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


Progs., Nos. 11(370)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Researches in Synthetic tannin by 1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

801 

802 

803 

804 

805 

806 

807 

808 

the Kyushu Sada Kaisha. 

Censorhip Interceptions. of a 

letter from the A.A. D. Souza, 

Bushire, to Mrs. Joe D. Souza, 

Bombay, regarding the alleged 

Progs., Nos. 11(445)-W, 

instructions, issued by the Iranian 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Govt. to their Consular officers in 

India and elsewhere not to grant 

visas to Foreigners wishing to 

proceed to Iran. 

1.Treatment accorded to the 

German Jawish refugees. 2. 

Instructions for alians advisory 

Committee constituted in India 

for the examination of case of 

refugee of enemy nationality. 


German Trade competition in 

Iran. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(416)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

1. The national Service 9Technical 

Personnal ) Ordiance , 1940.2. 

Central & employment and 

Distribution of Technical 

Personnal in India. 3. Summary 

of the Report of the Technical 

Training Enquiry Committee 

appointed by the Govt. of India. 

Progs., Nos. 61(5) -W, 

WAR 

1940 

1940 


movements of foreign suspect-- 

Extracts from weekly information 

summary issued by Censors, 

Rangoon. 

Prohibitions on exports -Simried 

rupessed and castor-deed. 

2.Alleged remittance of Funds on 

the behalf of Monsiour Didot by 

the American Consul General , 

Calcutta thereto the Madame of 

his bank in New Work, to Puire & 

madame Camtte in France. 

War trade lists and amendments 

thereto. 

Progs., Nos. 11(42)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(18)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 10(20) -W, 

WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

809 

810 

811 

812 

813 

814 

815 

816 

817 

Amendments to Defence of Indian 

Rules 1939. 

Censorship Interception of a 

letters from the Banco Di Romi, 

Beirut, to Nederlandsch Indische 

handels, Bank, N.V., Batavia 

forwarding the test key of a code 

for use between these two banks. 

Censorship , information by H.Ms 

Govt. that mail from Germany to 

Africa , South America & Far East 

is being Sent through 

Intermedians in Portugal and 

Portuguese Colonies. Enquiry as 

to the Steps that should be taken 

to control this Method of evading 

economic Warfare control. 

Question of inviting the Gopvt. of 

Netherlands East Indies to 

represent in the Eastern Group 

conference 2. Desirability of 

holding a British American-Dutch 

Techinical Military Conversations 

at Singapore. 

Imposition of censership by the 

Iraq Government . Postal Notice 

regarding restrictions as to the 

languages to be used in respect 

of correspondence addressed to 

Iraq. 

Apprehension of the Italian 

Legation Kabul regarding 

censoring of their mails passing 

through India. 

Censorship interception. Die 

Anslese a monthly printed in 

Bertur Pro Nazi Propaganda. 


Radio receivers and bulbs for 

Kabul. 

Censorship interception of letters 

regarding suspected irregular and 

Progs., Nos. 7-W, 1940 

(Secret) (Part-II) 

WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(408)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(13) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(273)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(127)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(107)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

818 

Enemy Trading. 

Censorship measures in regard to 

communicate France and French 

Possessions. Withdrawl and 

restoration of censorship can 

granted to the Consul General 

fror France at Calcutta. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Arrangement for supply to the 

German and Italian Govt. through 

H.Ms. Govt. of lists of interner in Progs., Nos. 20(23)-W, 

819 

WAR 1940 

India who are willing to have their 1940(Secret) 

names reported to their Home 

Govts. 

820 


telegram from Delprat, Basrah, to 

Progs., Nos. 11(429)-W, 

African Eastern, Ltd., Basrah, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

regarding fear of Cargo Sabotage 

with delayed action, bombs. 

Request to all Provincial 

Governemt and Chif 

commissioners to consul Govt. 

before proceeding to the 

deportation of a foreigner other 

than the subject of the Defence of Progs., 

821 

India Rules. Proposed deportation 1940 

of Mr. Kurose Japanese Trade 

Agent at Calcutta by the Bengal 

Govt. Discussions regarding 

deportation of Japanese Afghan 

and Iranian subjects. 

Nos. 6(8)-W, 

WAR 1940 

822 

823 

824 

Application of the Excess Profits 

Tax Act 1940, to British 

Baluchistan. 

and Telegraph authorities they 

should ask the Peshawar Censor 

Station to issue the telegram 

from Peshawar on their behalf. 

Detaining officers War 

Instructions (India), 1935 and 

Further amendments made 

thereto. Abolition of the 

appointment of Naval Reporting 

Officer at Pondichery and 

Progs., Nos. 61(3) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(451)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (B) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret)(1) 



WAR 

825 

826 

827 

828 

829 

830 

831 

appointment of British Consul, 

Marmago as Naval Reporting 

Officer at Marmago. 


Japanese preservation of Secrecy 

Concerning matters proceed 

Japanese new Sea route from 

India to be worked by the N.Y.K. 

Lime. 

Terms and conditions of Service 

of Indian Ex-Soldiers re enrolled 

for Service in an emergency , or 

on Mobilization. 

Censorship Interception-Letter 

from the National Bank of New 

York, Rangoon to their Branch in 

New York. Import of Sugar 

Refining machinery into Burma 

from Messrs. Skodas 

Czechoslovakia, for the Zeyawadi 

Sugar Factory Ltd., Zeyawadi, 

and the mode of payment 

therefore in wartime.-------------- 

------------- 


trade with Persian Gulf. 

Progs., Nos. 11(126)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 62(4) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(85)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(383)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Procedure for the censorship of 

Correspondence within India of 

enemy subjects at Liberty. 

Procedure relating to the 

Progs., Nos. 

1940 Secret 

20(8)-W, 

WAR 1940 

interception or detention of postal 

articles. 

Censorship interception. Ban on 

the entry into India of a Goa 

News--Paper entitted Diario Da 

Noite. 

Request of the Polish Legation, 

Shanghai, for asistance in 

providing recruits with 

transportation to Bombay free or 

at Special rates. 

Progs., Nos. 11(342)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 33-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

832 Censorship Interceptions of Progs., Nos. 11(92)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

833 

834 

835 

836 

837 

838 

839 

840 

letters regarding endeavours to 

procure German goods in 

Thailand. 

Enquiries regarding the Status of 

the firm Quebrachs Argentina 

Benares Aires. 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 27(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


Progs., Nos. 11(361)-W, 

defence work, Iran. Quotations, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

for hangers and all storage tanks. 

Supplies of copies of United 

Kingdom Regulations 

Supplements to the List of 

Emergency Act His and of certain 

Statutory Rules and orders from 

High Commissioner for 

India.London. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Instructions to certain provincial 

Govt. and areas under the Control 

of the External Affairs Deptt. to 

prohibit the import of monkey 

into India by Sea ports and land 

trontiers. 

Progs., Nos. 14(14)-W, 

WAR 

1940 

1940 

Procedure regarding the disposal 

of censorship interception reports 

about trade matters, received 

from the General Staff Branch. 

Discussion with the Commerce 

Deptt. by Deputy Secretary on 

the matter. 

Progs., Nos. 11(26)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

the arrest of Mr. Verleiest Reply 

Progs., Nos. 20(16)-W, 

that Mr. Verbiest was subsquently 

WAR 1940 


released. 

Contributions by the Indian 

Community at Zahidan (East 

Iran) for the relief of air raid 

victims in London. 


from J.A. Birrer, Rangoon to Mrs. 

R. Birrer, Lucerue, Switzerland, 

regarding trasnfer of private 

funds to Switzerland by Consular 

Mail. 

Progs., Nos. 16(15)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(349)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

841 

842 

843 

844 

845 

Offer of services by four Polish 

(Jewish) Industrialists from Kovno 

(Poland). Question of their 

employment in India. Arrival in 

India of M. Kleinberg and P.A. 

Koszer-permission given to them 

forindefinitestayin thiscountry. 

Refusal of visato Jakob Bekker. 

Import into British India of goods 

released from enemy vesels 

shilttring in Neutral Ports. 

Censorship interception. The East 

Asiatic Co., Ltd. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(C) 

Progs., Nos. 11(211)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Permits for transmission by Post 

of certain classes of Postal articles 

to Neutral countries. Supply of 

Permit Books to Foreign Consul in 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 73-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


table Industries. 


847 

848 

874 

875 

Censorhip Interceptions. Russia-- 

Matters regarding---. 

Censorship interception. Letters 

from one Mr. Max Eisdorfer, 

Director Manager of the cafe 

pans, Tehran, toe Manager, Hotel 

Marina New Delhi, asking for 

certain information regarding his 

expected tour to India with a 

company of entertainers. 

Decision that arrest made under 

the Defence of India Rules or 

other Emergency Legation of the 

allied Nationas and Neutral 

Especially American Might be 

conveyed to their respective 

Consul in India during the War. 

Treatment of Italian Property in 

the British Empire and British 

Property in Italy during War. 

Progs., Nos. 11(163)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(467)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(172)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

876 

877 

878 

879 

880 

881 

882 

883 


Consul General for Italy, Calcutta 

regarding the Censorship of 

inland letters addressed to certain 

Italian Missionaries of Sonanda 

(Darjeeling). 

Compliants of two Swiss Subjects 

livingin Kabul , named Alf de 

Spindler and Herr Schildknecht , 

about censorship of their 

correspondence in India. 


Correspondence of the Afghan 

Public warks Dept. Maternal for 

Bridge building in Afghanistan. 


Afghanistan Regarding--------. 


Iraq Military Mission to Yeman 

and disruption about the country 

of Yemen. 


Hungarian Consul in Indian 

Correspondence of ----. 

Progs., Nos. 11(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(5) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(238)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(225)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(268)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(292)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception. of a 

letter from the Consulate of 

Switzerland at Colombo to their 

Consulate at Bombay, regarding, 

the interests of Germans. 

Question of Censoring Secy. the 

mails of the Foreign Consul in 

India, Question of prosecuting Mr. 

Dharam yash Dev for sending to 

to all foreign Consuls and Consuls 

General, in India, Copies of a 

prejudicial........ 

Progs., Nos. 11(316)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) (A) 

1940 

Request of Abdur Ranf han and 

Mohd. Anwar han . Director and 

Interpeter respectively of Afghan 

National Bank, Berlin for the 

return of their money Deposited 

by the Afghan National Bank , 

London and Which had been 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

884 

885 

886 

887 

888 

889 

890 

891 

892 

taken , controller of Enemy 

Property. 

Censorship interception. East 

Asiatic Company Messrs. Hakon 

Christiansen and Rossel. 

Restrictions on the exports of -1) 

Govt. & groundout Celles. 2) Jute 

and Jute Manufacturers.3) Hides 

to the U.S.A. and 3) Paper etc. 

Offer of services in connection 

with the War. Mr. Ovadia, 

Manager of Sasoon and Co. 

Shangai. 

Lord Mayors appeal for 

ambulances. Appeal to people to 

contribute to funds to help 

prisoners of war and to provide 

for beds for hospitals etc. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Turkey 

and Tuks. 

Certificates of origin in respect of 

Afghan goods transitting India to 

non-Empire countries -Enquiries 

into the validity a otherwise of 

unstamped Consular certificates. 

......... 


from Compagnia Commerciale 

Italian to Sig. Brambilla Karachi, 

concerning Italian trade with 

India. 


enquiry made by Messrs. J. and 

S.S. Makamal, Bagdad, from nine 

Central American Firms, asking 

for samples and Quotations of 

Cautemala Coffee. 


from Mrs. G. Garbe, Bremen, 

Germany, to Willy Garbe, Kabul, 

regarding latter`s visit to Kabul. 

Progs., Nos. 11(311)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(17)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 16(14)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(455)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(37)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(35)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(427)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(363)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

893 War Book (India). Assurance Progs., Nos. 39(6)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

894 

895 

896 

897 

898 

899 

900 

given by the Italian Govt. to H. 

M`s. Govt. that they will not 

make use of poisonous gases and 

of Bacteriological methods of 

warfare in the war. 


regarding Enemy 

Correspondence. 

Decision by H.M. Govt. of 

Para42(a) of the Deating Officers 

war Instructions (India), 1935 will 

not apply in the case of the 

Treatment of Crew of enemy 

Merchant vessels. 

Question wheather the belgium 

Consul-General in India is 

authorised to obtain information 

about his Nationals in Belgium , 

through his Govt.s Diplomatic 

representative in Switzerland on 

behalf of the Belgian residing in 

India. 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(227)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret)(2) 

Progs., Nos. 10(17) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Censorship interception. Return to 

Kabul and their Appointment to 

vacuous post of eight Afghan 

Students who had gone to 

Germany for Military Training. 

Progs., Nos. 11(179)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 


Cessation of Supplies of chlorate 

of Potash from Scandinaira, on 

the spread of war in that area. 

Japan asked to take advantage of 

the situation and Capture India. 

Complaint of the British Legation 

Kabul about the opening of a 

letter addressed to the Japanese 

Legation Kabul by the Yokahama 

Specie Bank Ltd. Bombay Reply 

that the letter did not fall under 

diplomatic correspondence and 

was liable to censorship 


Information that Afghan subjects 

Progs., Nos. 11(141)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(55)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

901 

902 

903 

904 

905 

906 

907 

in Germany are managing to send 

letters to Afghanistan by crossing 

over the border into Belgium and 

posting letters from there. 

Censorship Interception-Letters 

from Brother Mario DallÀgnolo, 

(posted at Aden) to Rev: Brother 

Mariani Angelo, Gudivada, India. 

Naval Contraband control at 

Aden. 

Progs., Nos. 11(83)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


from Messrs. Kaikobad Pestanjee 

Progs., Nos. 11(100)-W, 

Kakali, Karachi to Messrs. Bruno 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Filacchioni, Rome. Photographic 

instruments for Afghan war office. 

2.Leave without absence of Shah 

Murad son of Kha from the 

Mountain artillary Center , 

Ambala. 

report made by Nehru in the 

court. 


correspendence between Messrs. 

Corn Products Co., Bombay and 

Messrs. Sale & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 

regarding lack of potato starch in 

Japan. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Report 

by a member of Mitsui Bussan 

Kaisha, Tokid, regarding his 

business tour in South China, 

French, Indo-China, Thailand 

Singapur Dutch East Indies. 

Alleged doubt that Japanese 

businessmen were trying to 

business by Personal visits, in 

view of suit censorship imposed 

on Thai correspondence. 


correspondence regarding the 

purchase of Sugar Iran in 

Exchange for the opium which 

that Conuntry export to Batavia. 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(316)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 11(33)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(475)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(350)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

908 

909 

910 

911 

912 

913 

914 

915 

916 

Assistance to Daves and Davish 

missions in India rendered 

destitute as a result of the War. 

English translation of the French 

version of German and Italian 

Armistice terms to France 

communicated to H.Ms 

Ambasador by the French Govt. 

at Bordeaux. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 


1. Press notes regarding Prices of 

Groundnuts and Groundnuts from 

India by M/s Ralli Bros of 

Pondicherry.3. Enquiry made by 

the Governor of Pondichery 

Progs., 

1940 

Nos. 9(4) -W, 

WAR 1940 

regarding the Name of the Agents 

of the Ministry of food in Madras. 

confidlems. Extract entitled poles 

in the United Kingdom from a 

Security Service Report. 


India and Indian affairs abroad--- 

trade relation with other 

countries. 


imports into Afghanistan of Arms 

and Ammunition, dyes, 

machinery, etc. 

Censorship interceptions 

correspondence of the Apostolie 

Deligate in India 

Refusal to the Prince Harsan of 

Former Persian Imperial House to 

Draw, in Canada instead of in 

India, his Sterling allowance 

which he draws from H.H. the 

Nizam. 

2.Vichy Govt. Instructions to all 

Military attaches re. the relations 

and bearing of French Officers 

towords the British Govt. , the 

Free French Movement and the 

Axis Powers. 

Progs., Nos. 20(28)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 11(237)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(17)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(454)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 




WAR 

917 

918 

919 

920 

921 

922 

923 

924 

925 

926 

927 


returning of Japaneese 

Ambassador, Kabul to Tokyo. 

Request from the Bombay Govt. 

to declare Oil installation at 

Wadigh bunder to be a protected 

place. 


Thai firms Connected with Japan. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Anti- 

Asiatic Prejudice in Malaya. 

Amendments to the Defence of 

India Rules 1939. Supply of 

copies of Notification containing 

to the authorities under the 

External Affaris Depatt. 

Censorship Interception Danish 

Shipping Seizure of Danish ships 

by Great Britain. 


from Italian Legation Bangkok to 

the Minister for Foreign Affairs, 

Rome, Thai-Japanese Nonagression 

Pact. 

Orders against certain persons 

under Rule 26(1) of the Defence 

of India Rules to be served on 

them by the Provincial 

Government concerned. 

Contribution by the Indian 

Community at Basrah to H.E.the 


Payment of freight etc., for 

congress in enemy Ships in 

neutral ports. Decision that 

certain goods belonging to British 

owners to be discharged from 

German ships shelting in neutral 

ports and re-shipped to U.K. 

covered by certificates .......... 

Treatment of goods of Danish 

origin. Applicabilityof Reprisals 

Progs., Nos. 11(362)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(322)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(461)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 7-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) (Part-I) 

Progs., Nos. 11(47)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(195)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 47-W, 1940 WAR 1940 



WAR 

928 

929 

930 

931 

932 

933 

934 

order 1939 to Italian goods. 

1.Preparation for Eventuality of 

War with France. 2. Action to be 

taken againest the Nationals of 

France in India 3. Action to be 

taken in respect of Franch India 

and Franch Colonies in Africa. 

Case of Mr. Wolfgang Hans 

William Kabul remains free not 

with standing his internment 

under & untill a vesting Oordu in 

made. 

Complaint of the Afghan Consul 

General against the opening by 

censorship authorities of a letter 

addressed by the Afghan visa 

Officer at Peshawar to his 

Opposite Number at Chaman by 

name. 


Correspondence of Herru Keel, 

Swiss Commerical Representative 

in Kabul. High Speed motor-Cycle 

for the Afghan Army. 


letter, of an anti-British tone, 

from E. Laathy, 750, Hart Road, 

Shanghai to Dr. A. Daeniker, 

Charge Affairs, Legation, Suisse, 

Teheran. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 

Progs., Nos. 18(24)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 condidential 

Progs., Nos. 11(183)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(438)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Constitution of an Export Advisory 

Council in India to (i) act as a 

channel of communication 

between the Government of India 

and the exporting interests of the Progs., Nos. 14(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

country, (ii) to make 

1940(A) 

recommendations regarding the 

best means of expanding the 

aggregater exports of staple 

commodities,.............. 

posted by the Consul General for 

Iran to some relative in Berlin, 

under cover of the address of the 


WAR 1940 




WAR 

935 

936 

937 

Minister for Iran, Rome. 


Maritime Custom`s report giving 

figures of exports from the 

Imports to Tientsin. 

Despatch of mails to Germany 

through Intermucliary. 


pressure on passage 

accommodation at Baroda. 

938 British War Savings Movement. 

939 

940 


Ordinance for dealing with Enemy 

Property, issued by the German 

Government. Declaration of Iraq 

and Egypt as enemy States by 

the Government of German. 

Appointment of Captain G.C.D. 

Dorsett, Raisc. as an official 

Photographer to Defence 

Department of the Govt. of India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(354)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(2) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(416)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(30)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Censorship Interceptions-Letter 

from S.J.Ispahani, Maghaza 

Taoos, Teheran to S.M. Ispahani, 

Progs., Nos. 11(90)-W, 

941 Rangoon. Effect of Russo-Iranian 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Commerical Agreement on Tehran 

market. Abundance of German 

goods-Tehran. 

942 

943 

944 

Review of war events. High 

Commissioner`s letters to the 

Economic Adviser to the Govt.of 

India(July 1940 to December 

1940.) 

Censorship interception. Batavia 

Lydda Air Service. 

Instructions to Customs Officers 

that they should inform the 

Dating Officers in any Ship 

Proposes to Leave the Port 

without Discharging in Full Cargo 

due for discharge at their Ports. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(304)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret)(3) 



WAR 

945 

946 

947 

948 

949 

950 

951 

952 

953 

954 

Discontinuance of British Consul 

Bandarabas to carry the duties of 

Naval Reporting Officer. 


Treatment accorded to Indians in 

U.S.A. Trouble with U.S.A. 

Immigration Authorities. 


from A.Brunnschweiler & co., 

Madras to Messrs. Osaka Syosen 

Kaisha, Singapore. An attempt to 

obtain shipping intelligence. 

Censorship interception. Mr. Willi 

Berger of Kabul, Activities of ---. 

Grant of permission to Imperial 

Airways Corporation to exchange 

code or Cypher telegrams 

between their representatives in 

India and Bahrain. 


with the War. 

Progs., Nos. 11(186)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(28)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(344)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(93)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 13-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


the Foreign affair of Mitsui Bussan Progs., Nos. 11(122)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Khaiso Co, Japan, Changes in 1940 Secret 

Personnel. 

Design Showing colours and 

Distinctive marks adopted by 

Italy , during War time , for its 

Sanitarian & Saccom Planes. 

Question of refusing the grant of 

Jail to persons, Prosecuted under 

the Defence of India Rules, in 

order to Cheak their taking 

advantage of then release, to 

Continue their Objectionable 

activities. 

Censorship interception. Danish 

Machinery for Thailand, Efforts to 

ship Danish good in Italian Ports. 

Request of the Defence Coordination 

Deptt. that proposals 

involving the making of an order, 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(173)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

955 

956 

957 

958 

959 

960 

961 

962 

963 

under the Defence of India Rules, 

Providing for the Charging of fees 

inrespect of grant or issue of any 

license, permit, certificate or 

other document, should be 

referred to that Department. 

National Status of Czechs in 

India. 

Scheme to train Pilots and 

Michanies for air Force Resorve. 

Detention of Mr. Fredrich Alfred 

Peter and Miss Peter Elsa Gertrud 

Swiss citizens of pro-Nazi 

Sympathies. 


from Richard Salvator, Athens to 

Ingenieur Erick Stegemann, 

Broadcasting Station, Jaktant, 

Kabul. 

Collection of Data by the Air Head 

Quarters , India for the 

Preparation of Bombay Sarget 

cataloges. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(101)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Instructions on the Import into 

British India of goods which are 

Progs., 

the Property of an Enemy or 

1940 

which are product or manufacture 

of any enemy territory. 

Nos. 66(3)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Enquiry made by C.G. for U. S. 

bales of cotton by M/S. Kilachand 

Devehand and Company to M/s. 

George H. Mc. Fadden and 

brothers of New York. 

Censorship interception. Behrein 

Petroleum. 

Request by the Consul-General 

for Poland, Bombay for help from 

the Govt. of India to have 

medically examined the Polish 

citizens in India free of Change 

for purposes of recruitment in 

army. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(254)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

964 

965 

966 

967 

968 

969 

970 

971 

972 

Press notes regarding the Prices 

of Taunade Trip. 

granted to the Apostolic Delegate 

of the East Indies, Bangalore, for 

the exchange of both postal and 

telegraphic correspondence with 

the Papal State without 

censorship and vice versa. 


regarding export of sheet and 

scrap metals from India. 

Defence of India Rules 1939. (1) 

Amendment of Rule 116, Defence 

of India Rules 1939. (2) 

Amendment of requisitioning 

provisions of the Defence of India 

Rules, 1939. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 11(117)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception 1. Letter 

from the Prince of Berar to ex- 

King Oman Ullah Khan, Engineer 

about Major I.M. Graham Who 

signed the Letter. 2. Amanullah- 

Poopaganda Mateerial getting into 

Afghanistan from Peshwar. 

Progs., Nos. 11(243)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 

Censorship interception Learning 

of Japanese Language by white 

Russian.q 


instructions, relating to 

Communication, between enemy 

occupied Netherlands, and U.S 

citizens. 

1.Ministry of Supply Scheme for 

the erection ofa factory in India 

for the Manufacture of Bren Guns 

and Other Light automatic 

weapons. 2. Questionof 

employment of certain Czech 

technicians and Doctors from 

Balkans , Persia and Turey. 

Introduction of a system of 

Certificates of Origin and interest 

Progs., Nos. 11(287)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(360)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (A) 



WAR 

973 

974 

975 

976 

977 

978 

979 

980 

981 

in respect of goods imported from 

neutral countries and a system of 

Export Passes for enemy goods 

consigned to India or transiting 

India for limitrophe countries. 

Waver of the Former system as 

regards goods transhipped in the 

United Kingdom. 

Censorship interception. Talaat 

Wafa Cossespondence. 

Censorship interception. German 

Ships in Netherlands East India. 

Censorship interception Russian 

influence on Iran Effect of --- on 

internal Political situation of Iraq. 

Revolt in the Iranian Army. 

1.Rationing of Steel Supplies from 

the U.K. 2. Introduction of Quota 

System for Steel imported from 

the U.K. 3. Diversion of Indian 

Demands of finished Steel 

Products from the United 

Kingdom to United States. 


financial situation in Japan-Indo 

Japanese Yen Exchange attitude 

to starting. 

Prohibition Thai Govt. on code 

and cypher telegrams from or to 

Thailand. Decision that this 

prohibition does not apply to 

Govt. telegram. 

Contribution made by H.H.the 

Maharaja of Bhutan to H.E. the 


Deportation of K.R. Legation a 

pro-nazi Swedish National under 

Defence of India Act and 

correspondence with Consul- 

General for Sweden Calcutta. 

Complaint from the Commercial 

Attache to the French Consulate 

Progs., Nos. 11(282)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(284)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(332)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(206)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 16(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

982 

983 

984 

985 

986 

987 

General at Calcutta regarding the 

delay caused in the delivery of 

telegrams addressed to him in his 

abbreviated telegraphic address 

Frenchatta. 

1) Decision that printed 

publication which contain a) 

information which could be used 

for propganda purposes. b) 

information of Military value. c) 

information of economic value 

should not be supplied to any 

neutral country furing the war. 

Decision that the Report on the 

Administration of the Border of 

the N.W.F.P. should be 

reclassified as For Official Use 

Only and its supply to the New 

York Public Library New York 

discontinued during ........... 

Royal messagesof condolence to 

the relatives of members of the 

fighting services who lose their 

lives onactive service in War. 

Question of Chigibuter of the 

relations of mensem of the civil 

Arsenal Forces in the B.W.F.P. & 

Baluchistan to receive Royal 

Messages of Condolence. 

Decision to send copies of letters 

intercepted in India, to certain 

authorities out side India with 

which the External Affairs Dept. 

its concerned--- Decision to 

continue the practic. 

Request of the Madras Govt. to 

be supplied with spare copies of 

allto war matters which may be 

addressed to that Govt. 

Treatment of Spamiarals in the 

Event of Spain entering the War. 

Censorship interception of an 

extract of a letter from Mrs. R.W. 


WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(434)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(205)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

988 

989 

990 

991 

992 

993 

994 

995 

996 

Byrd, wife of an American Vice- 

Consul in Calcutta, regarding war. 

Contraband control in the North 

West Frontier Proviential. 2. 

Enquiry wheather it is Necessary 

to establish customs Stations on 

certain routes to Afghanistan 

none now enist. 


the Bulletin of the German- 

Iranian Chamber of Commerce 

dated Berlin, Aug. 1940. 

Enquiry by the British Legation at 

Kabul as to the Possibility of 

Sending Letters to Sweden and 

Switzerland otherwise than 

through Russia and Germany. 

Complaint by the Japanese 

Consul General Calcutta against 

the Delay Caused by censorship 

authorities in the delivery of 

Japanese Newspapers in India. 

Notification by the Central 

Government to prohibit the 

bringing of matches into British 

India from the territories of 

certain Indian States. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(421)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(10) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 18(26)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 14(13)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Decision that letters to India from 

Lasca and other native creves in 

H.M.s transport and Auseilianies 

held up in west African Pov. 

Progs., Nos. 

1940(Secret) 

94(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

should be sent to Censor Station , 

Bombay for censorship. 

Smuggling of gold Soverigns from 

India. 

Supply of Permit Books ( for the 

transmission of certain classes of 

postal articles to neutral 

countries) to H.E. the German of 

the North West Frontier Province. 

Prilest by the Post master 

General, Tehsan , againest 

Progs., Nos. 14(34)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

997 

998 

censership of mails in transit 

through Iran at Muscat.2. 

Censership arrangements in in 

the Persian Gulf Under Powers of 

cansership conferred on the 

Political residents by Defaree 

Regulations. 


Germans in Iran. 


from B.G.H.van Der Jaagt(a 

Dutchman), Great Eastern Hotel, 

Calcutta to Mrs. J.L. van Der 

Jaagt Muller. Royal Dutch Shell 

Employers of Holland. 

Progs., Nos. 11(395)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(97)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Internment in India of certain 

German and Czcep national from 

Iraq at the instance of the Iraq 

Progs., Nos. 10(3) -W, 

999 Govt. and Question of their 

WAR 1940 


release. 2. Question of Transfer of 

certain German internees from 

Iraq to Family internment camps. 

1000 

1001 


from Messrs. Liberto Canzanese 

Coral Legharn, Italy to P. 

Salsiccioni, Calcutta Salzuma 

ware for Nepal. 

Attempt to keep the contract of 

Geodetic goods, in Kabul, out of 

German Hands. Telegram issued 

by K.A. Gai, Peshawar, Agent, 

British Kabul on behalf of Dr. 

Schildknecht to C. wild 

Hrerbrugg, Switzerland. Decision 

that whenever the British Kabul 

may like to keep the contents of 

my telegrams secret from the 

Afghan Govt. .... 

Progs., Nos. 11(210)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(451)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (A) 

Censorship Interception- List of 

Japanese firm circularised in India Progs., Nos. 11(19)-W, 

1002 

WAR 1940 

by Asgarali S. Mithaiwala, 1940(Secret) 

Karachi. 

1003 3.Grant of allowance to Destitute Progs., Nos. 86(2)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

1004 

1005 

1006 

1007 

1008 

1009 

1010 

1011 

1012 

1013 

1014 

evacuees for Personal Expences . 

Undertaking in respect of 

Financial Assistance given to 

Overseas. 

Censorship interception. Royal 

Thai Treasury credit in Italy. 

Censorship interception. Sethia 

and Sons, Calcutta, and London 

Export of Jute from India. 


Progs., Nos. 11(331)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(289)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


telegram sent from London, by 

Progs., Nos. 11(405)-W, 

journalist named Ghosh about the 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

burning the burning news of the 

day. 

Censorship interception. Japan 

and Japanese. 


watch Tower Bibls Tract Society 

Mr. H. Ferrario, Kabul, Activities 

of ---. 

Censorship Interception of letter 

govomg information avaition 

development in Netherland. 

Progs., Nos. 11(330)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(290)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(413)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Recovory from Italy of the 

Package belonging one Mr. Iqubal Progs., Nos. 87-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Nath Nanda of Kashmir. 

Censorship interception use of 

Consular Address by the 

Employees of the British 

Consulate General Bushire. 

Suggestion that the world care of 

should be used in such private 


Handing over the building etc. of 

Czechoslovak Export institute 

Bombay to the Consul for 

Czechoslovakia. 


instructions, to ante-date bills of 

lading from Japan to India. 

Supply of copies of the orders 

made by the Central Govt. under 

Progs., Nos. 11(366)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 17-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(201)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1015 

1016 

1017 

1018 

1019 

1020 

1021 

the Defence of India Act & Rules 

to the High Commissioner for 

India London. 


Japanese Propaganda. 

Progs., Nos. 11(341)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Censorship interception. Anglo- 

Progs., Nos. 11(224)-W, 

Irania Oil Coy. Difference with the 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Govt. of Iran. 


Correspondence of the apostate 

delegate in India. Conditions in 

Portugal and the Portuguese East 

Africa. 

Censorship interception-covers, 

containing blank sheets of paper, 

from Mrs. Khoshneviss, Shanghai 

to Mr. T.P. Khoshneviss Tageran, 

Iran. 

Progs., Nos. 11(456)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(69)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


from Nafe Brothers, Livorno, Italy 

to messrs. D. Tucker &co., 

Bombay. Italian attempt to open 

up trade with India for Italy and 

Germany. 

Progs., Nos. 11(16)-W, 

WAR 

1940(Secret) 

1940 

Instructions, issued by the Home 

Deptt, to officers of the Govt. of 

India, to maintain the morale of 

Civil Population by avoiding 

expression of depfeatist views 

and Spreading of alarming stories 

in public places such as hotels 

etc. 

Progs., Nos. 

1940 (Secret) 

35(4)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1.Evasion of censorship by 

Neutral Vessels 2. Question of 

Examining the mails to and from 

Goa carried by Neutral vessels 

not voluntarily calling at Britih 

Indian Ports. 


WAR 1940 


Contribution towards H.E.the 

Viceroy`s War purposes fund by a 

1022 

Progs., Nos. 16-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

British Indian subject residing in 

Bundar Abbas. 



WAR 

1023 

1024 

1025 

1026 

1027 

1028 

1029 

1030 


stocks of tin accumulated in 

China-Chineese propaganda in 

India-Japaneese-Chineese Trade 

competition-Trade Agreements. 


Telegrams from Broadcasting 

corporation, Tokyo to Japanese 

Legation Kabul & Editor ``Ceylon 

Observer`` Colombo, regarding 

Japanese Broadcast transmissions 

for Afghanistan, Hawiien Island 

and South Western Asia. 


various matters relating to Japan 

and Afghanistan. 

Progs., Nos. 11(98)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(112)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(404)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


from Mr. W.D. Reeve, Thailand, to 

Mrs. Reeve, England regarding 

former being sent on diplomatic 

mission, to Afghanistan Receive 

Activities, opium trade. 

Progs., Nos. 11(365)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 


from F.S. Madoe, (an Indian in 

Teheran on company`s business) 

Progs., Nos. 11(80)-W, 

to Phiroze M.N.Mehta, C/o. Star 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Paper Mills Ltd., Saharanpur, 

suggesting the establishment of a 

paper mill in Java. 

Censorship interception. Afghan 

Exhibition in Tokyo. Withholding 

by Censorship authorities of Progs., Nos. 11(239)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Japanese News-Papers addressed 1940 (Secret) 

to Foreign Office, Kabul, Japanese 


Censorship interception. New 

Aerodroms in Bhuket, Thailand 

and Bandar Pahlavi, Tehran. 

Progs., Nos. 11(235)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

1.Notification Under the Indian 

Coinage Act, 1906 as amended by 

Progs., Nos. 

the Indian Coinage (Second 


Amendment) Ordiance , 1940, 

withdrawing from Circulation of 

114-W, 

WAR 1940 



WAR 

1031 

1032 

1033 

1034 

1035 

Queen Victoria Rupees, Coins. 

Censorship interception. Iranian 

Trade with non-enemy countries. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Italy and 

Italian. 

Censorship interception. Views of 

Japan and China on the Present 

War. 

Request by the Consul-in-Charge 

of the consulate -general of 

Switzerland to lift the ban on the 

exports from India to Switzerland 

of certain articles. 

Exports to Spain and Portugese 

atlantic islands Sweden and 

Finland-General adens. 

Shipments of certain goods not 

specific in the Export Control 

Notification. 

Progs., Nos. 11(177)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(463)-W, 

1940 (Secret) 

WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(283)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(30)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(20)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Instruction for the use of 

``requisitioning`` rules in the 

Progs., Nos. 

1036 Defence of India Rules and for the 

1940 (Secret) 

provision of Compensation in that 

respect. 

7(19)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1037 

1038 

1039 

1040 

1041 

Censorhip Interceptions. French 

Establishment and Portuguese 

possession, in India. Matter 

regarding----. 


Hong Kong. 

Censorship interception. A 

Japanese firm asking for maps of 

the Federates Malaya State from 

the Sudpt. Malaya State Govt., 

Press, Kuala Lumpur. 

Procedure to be adopted for 

recuritmant of French trained 

soilders and Technician in India. 

Interception by British consulte 

General, Bataura ofa telegram 

town Bridgestone , Tois to Kansol 

Mitrani , Bussan at Sumarang , 

Progs., Nos. 11(459)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(327)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(221)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1042 

1043 

1044 

1045 

1046 

1047 

1048 

1049 

regarding disposal off of their 

Indian Stock, Owing to 

International Unrest. 

Precies Position of the Belgian 

Government, Set Up in London as 

stated by the Consul General for 

Belgium in Bombay , which is 

recognised by His Majesty 

Government and by all the 

countries not at War eith 

Belgium. 

Progs., Nos. 99-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


conditions, in Brazil. 

Question of Consoring the 

correspondence of Miss L.C. 

Stubely , the Yugolslow 

Governorness of Major G.C.L. 

Crictton , P.A. Gilgit and that of 

for removal from Gilgit. 

Intimation from Political Agent 

Gilgit that there is not the 

slightert reseon for rupicion 

against her. 

Censorship interception. Indian 

Congress and its Propaganda 

Abroad. 

Press control in India during the 

War. Commet by the India Office 

on the Publicity obtained for the 

Statement made in the Court by 

Mr. Jai Narain on His 

Presentation. 

Progs., Nos. 11(300)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(251)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Inablity of His Majesty 

Government to arrange for 

Supply of of Wrecked enemy 

aeroplanes for enhibitition 

Purposes in India war on Payment 

of cost and Fright. 

Progs., 

1940 

Nos. 111-W, 

WAR 1940 


Mail. 

Censorship interception. Indian in 

East Africa and Iraq sending 

Progs., Nos. 11(233)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(302)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

1050 

1051 

1052 

1053 

1054 

1055 

1056 

1057 

1058 

money to India for deposit to be 

utilised money in emergency. 


chartered Bank of India, Aus. and 

China. 

Exemption granted by the 

Reserve Bank of India from 

Currency Control in regard to 

certain countries. 2. Inclusion of 

Afghanistan among the countries 

so exemptd. 

1.Secret circulars from India 

Office regarding Fifth Column 

activities.2. Defence Department. 

Instructions with regard to 

Preventive action to be taken 

againest Fifth Columist in India. 

Supply of 6 guns and mounting 

en-H.M.S. Cockchafer to form a 

cost defence battery at Port 

victoria, Seychelles ? 2. Provision 

of the gim crew Personal from 

Ceylon. 

Arrangements for procuring 

suppliesof Potassium Iodide for 

use in the Travancore States 

medical Deptt. 

Progs., Nos. 11(260)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Complaint by the Afghan Ministry 

of foreign affairs Kabul received 

through the British Legation 

regarding the censorship and 

detention in India of Afghan 

Progs., Nos. 18(10)-W, 

WAR 

1940 

1940 

postal articles addressed to rome. 

Discussions regarding Indian steel 

Surplus. 

Proposed manufacture of army 

clothing in Indian Jeib -Proposal 

adopted. 2.Question of Supply 

equipment for the New clothing 

factory. 

Export Trade Control. Weekly 

reports regarding licences for 

Progs., Nos. 8(10) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 78-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 14(25)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1059 

1060 

1061 

1062 

1063 

1064 

1065 

1066 

1067 

exports to certain countries. 


Interment of Italian Fathers in 

India. 

Request of the Swiss consul 

Bombay to exempt from customs 

duty the Cinema film entitled our 

Army. 

territory in India to the Portugese 

territory in India to the escaped 

Prisoners of War and internees. 

Despatch of letters written in 

German to Australia from Turkey 

via India. 

1.Proposed erection of of Factory 

in India, manued by Gech 

Tehnicians for the manufacture of 

Light automatic Weapons. 

2.Enquiry made from certain 

authorities abrode rejected the 

arailability of Czech Shilled 

Gange-makers for employment 

on Munites Production in India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(207)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 20(27)-W, 

WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Enquiry from Tahsir Rustu Bac 

Coucsellor of the Turkish Embassy 

Progs., Nos. 18(15)-W, 

Kabul About the detention of his 

WAR 1940 

1940 

correspondence by censorship 

authority in India. 

Defence of India Rules. Petroleum 

Premises (Fire Protection) Order, 

1940. 

Military officers should not allow 

foreigners to share 

accomandation with them in any 

capacity. 

Contraband Control 1. Navicut 

and Ship Warrants Schemes. 2. 

Intriduction of the Navicerts 

System in French India and Goa. 

3. Introduction of Expert 

Licensing System in Bahrain 

Muscat and the Trucial 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1068 

1069 

1070 

1071 

1072 

1073 

Shaikhdoms. 

1.Enquiry into a report ofa bag of 

mail which arrival at Bangkok 

from Switzerland by Dutch , K.L. 

M.G. 2.Enquiries made by H.M. 

Consul -General, Haipong 

regarding certain French Air Mails 

belived to be missing , which 

passed through India. 

Supply to Home Department and 

German Staff Branch of 

information in respect of the 

External affaire Department 

Showing numbers to be 

accommodate in the New Delhi 

Secretariat Keep Scheme. 

Censorship interception. Situation 

in Horta. Horta cable station. 

Heninich von manllzen, a German 

touring through retread 

Countries. 

Censorship interception of letter 

from Bird and Co., Lahore, to 

Eacher Myss Engineering Works, 

Zurich, regarding Foreign plant 

for Punjab Huydro-Electric 

project. 


Telegrams from Vichy Govt., 

France, 2. Telegrams, excharged 

between Governor Pondicherry 

and General De Ganlle. 3. 

Decision that copies of telegrams 

from Victory Govt. to Governor 

Pondicherry or otherwise, which 

were stopped by Censors, should 

not be sent to Consul General 

Pondicherry. 


containing orders issued by the 

Commander, Dutch East Indies 

Naval Forces to the Members of 

all Dutch Vessels. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(208)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(148)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(325)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(240)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

1074 

1075 

1076 

1077 

1078 

1079 

Censorship of Postal and 

Telegraphic communications to 

and from Nepal. 

Censorship Interception Extract 

from an Economic Report sent by 

Nederlandsch Indische 

Handelsbank N.V. Tokyo, to their 

Calcutta Branch, regarding 

Japanese Economic Mission to 

Italy in order to improve trade 

between Japan Manchukuo and 

Italy. 

Contributions by Certain British 

Indian Subjects employed by the 

Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. at Abadan 

to H.M. King Emperor`s War 

Fund. 

Trading with Netherlands Easst 

Indies. 

Proposal to Utilize the Services in 

India the Czech technician in 

Afghanistan -. Proposal Dropped. 

Censorship interception. Indian In 

Germany. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(113)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 14(21)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(315)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


activities of Isa Beg of Yanqui 

Hissar (Kashgar)--- Admission in 

Progs., Nos. 11(426)-W, 

1080 the Chineese Govt. Military, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

School, Chengtu, of students from 

India, Arabia and China, all 

belonging to Chineese Turkistan. 

1081 

1082 

1109 

Letter from Mr. Abdul, Wassy, 

Clerk, British Consulate General, 

Kashgar, to certain addresses in 

Inda, Conditions, in Kashgar. 


Viceroys war puposes fund. 

Contribution by Indian Army 

Pensioner Khuda Buksh of 

Tehran. 

Censorship of closed mail bags 

exchange by the French post 

Progs., Nos. 11(470)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 16(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(50)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

1110 

1111 

1112 

1113 

offices in French India with 

Neutral Countries. Decision that 

Postal articles carried by Air 

French between Saigon and 

Frence and vice versa should not 

be examined in India. 

Enemy Foreigners. Question of 

sending Miss Labes a Governess 

in the household of Brigadier 

Christian to a Parole Camp. 

Contirbution by His Majesty`s 

Consul general and Vice Consul 

Kashgar etc. to H.E. the 


Complaint of the Consul General 

for Afghansitan regarding the 

opening of a wrapper containing a 

copy of Daily Islah addressed to 

him. 

Information furnished by the 

Controller of Enemt Trading 

regarding certain firms in Tehran 

suspected to be trading with 

enemy. 

Progs., Nos. 20(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 18(21)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Import trade control- Request by 

the Afghan Govt. for permission 

to import pickrin through India for Progs., Nos. 14(44)-W, 

1114 

WAR 1940 

use in the Sugor factory at 1940(Secret) 

Baglan. Pikrin purchased by the 

Afghan Govt. from India. 

1115 

1116 

1117 

Adjustment of Expenditure 

incurred on the repatriation of 

Italian Consular Officers from 

Bombay to Lisbon. 

Export Trade Contol. Grant of 

licenses for commodities not 

subject to quota restrictions. 

Supply of copies of Govt. of India 

notifications to notifications to 

North-West Frontier Provinced 

and Baluchistan. Question of the 

reductions of their requirements 

Progs., Nos. 39(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(45)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1118 

1119 

1120 

1121 

1122 

for copies. 2) Revised scheme for 

the issue of amendments to the 

Defence of Indian Act and rules. 

Co-operating by imposing 

prohibition on exports from their 

ports similar to those in force in 



WAR 1940 

1940(B) 

Amendment of rule 59 of the 

Defence of India Rules. Guidance 

Note for Information officers 

concerning the orders issued 

under rule 58 and 59 of the 

Defence of India Rules prohibiting 

drilling and Uniforms. 

Progs., Nos. 

1940 (Secret) 

7(22)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Taking over of British & Indian 

inteers in enemy occupied by 

U.S.A. authorities. 

Tightining of control on exports to 

Afghanistan and Iran. Issue and 

amendment of open General 

Licences No.1 Complaintrs from 

the Afghan Govt. regarding delay 

in grant of export licenses. 

Restrictions on export to Syria. 

Question of preventing the 

despatch of stocks to Syria from 

Iraq and from India & Java via 

Iraq. ........ 

Progs., Nos. 53-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 14(38)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(31)-W, 

WAR 1940 


Censorship Interception letters 

addressed to Italian Consul 

General Calcutta by the General Progs., Nos. 11(119)-W, 

1123 

WAR 1940 

Secretary, Fiera del Levante, Bari, 1940(Secret) 

Italy, regarding Italian trade with 

India and Burma. 

1124 

Case of the Political Agent Gilgit 

communiting enclave to K.A. Gai 

pashawr the date on which a 

military aircraft was flying. Progs., Nos. 

Decision that in cases of extreme 1940(B) 

emergency where no other course 

in possible this restriction may be 

relaxed. 

49(6)-W, 

WAR 1940 



WAR 

1125 

1126 

1127 

1128 

1129 

1130 

1131 

1132 

Internment of Mr. Hans Jensen a 

Danish subject under the 

provisions of Scetions 3 & 4 of 

Foreigners Act 1940. 

Advance copies of notifications 

containing amendments to Rule 

numbers :- 52(1); and 26, of the 

Defence of India Rules. Supply of 

copies of the above amendments 

to Baluchistan and Kashmir. 

Information summaries received 

from Chief Censor India Form No. 

35-No. 40. 


regarding French Shipping and 

trade problems in the Indian 

Ocean. 

Permission to the Govt. of India 

in Import Alumina the duty in 

order to enable the manufacturer 

of amuminium tobe Stored in 

India. 2. Measure s to conserer 

the available Supplies of 

Aluminium --- 


French Banking Instructions. 

Import Trade Control. Restrictions 

in the Import of certain 

documents into British India 

Notifications Under 19 of the Sea 

Customs Act. . Question of the 

Imposition of Further restrictions 

on the Export of Money to 

Portuguese India. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret)(II) 

Progs., Nos. 11(387)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 11(410)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Complaint of the Italian Govt. 

about the Opening of letters 

addressed in the Italian Language 


to their consul general at Bombay 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret(A) 

Suggestion of H.M.`s Govt to 

relax the rule about 

correspondence ...... 

1133 Censorship interception. Letter Progs., Nos. 11(168)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

1134 

1135 

1136 

1137 

1138 

1139 

1140 

from Karel Provaznik, Slovensko, 1940 (Secret) 

to Emil Wallig, Kabul. Buildings up 

an Ammunition factory in Tehran 

by Skoda Work. 

Censorship interception. Telegram 

from Kabul to Afghan Consul, 

Karachi, Iron Girders for the 

Afghan Govt. 

Progs., Nos. 11(181)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 

Supply to P.I.O. translations of 

certain articles from Arabic 

newspapers recieved from Egypt. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

3.Amendment to the Foreigners 

Order , 1939 Restrictions on 

departure from India of Foreigner 

, other than a Subject of a State 

with co- rverminon s Boundary 

with India. 4.Decision that 

Notifications on the Departure of 

Foreigners from India should not 

operate to the incocurance of U.S. 

Citizens. 


WAR 


1940 

Censorshop Interception of letter 

from one Atto in Abadan to 

Messrs. Rochiram and son, 

General Merchants, Hyd. Attempt 

the purpose of the postal 

censorship imposed by the 

Iranian police on the 

Correspondence of traders. 

Refusal to the request of the 

Consul General for the 

Netherlands at Calcutta to allow 

certain Netherlands to enrol in 

the Auxiliary Force, India. 

Certain information regarding 

Bohemia and Moravia required by 

Inr. Dingo Thadhami, Bunder 

Road Karachi. 

Progs., Nos. 11(431)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 62(2) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 52-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Censorship interception. Italian 

S.S. Arabia Carrying Govt. Cargo Progs., Nos. 11(267)-W, 

WAR 1940 

and taking refugee at Assabe port 1940 (Secret) 

in Red sea. 



WAR 

1141 

1142 

1143 

1144 

1145 

Supply of certain articles from 

India to the Tanganyika Railway 

Administration. 

Decision that Supply of Messages 

in respect of Storms to Port in 

India Under the countral of the 

Portuguese Government should 

Stapped. 

The Indian Coinage(Third 

Amendment) Ordiance, 1940, 2. 

Issue of new Securities edge 

Rupee coins. 

Exclusion of Mlle. Buschi, a Swiss 

national, suspected of possessing 

German Sympathies, from teh 

NWFP where she was employed, 

to live, subject to permission at a 

place which is not a port or which 

is not of strategical or military 

importance 

Progs., Nos. 8(12) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 61(14) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 

1. Possible means of desorving 

enemy Submarines .2. Watch on 

the Export of Distilled Water out 

of India. 5. Proposal from British 

Consul , Marmagao , that he 

should be supplied with a 

Seagoing motor Lunch in order to 

Progs., Nos. 

1940(Secret) 

77-W, 

WAR 1940 

collect Uavel in Telligence in Goan 

cost & Dislands. 

Censorship interception. Transfer 

of A/cs of the Thai Match Co. Ltd., 

Progs., Nos. 11(176)-W, 

1146 Banglore from Hongkong Bank of 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Siam Bank, measures Inview of 

uncertain future. 

1147 

1148 

Censorship interception Letter 

from Takahashi Mitsubishi 

Bombay, to Mr. Tsushima, Osaka 

Japanese Trad Drive in India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(154)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


certain commodities from British 

Progs., Nos. 14(11)-W, 

India to anyplace out of India or 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Burma. Action takenin required to 

the French and Portugese 



WAR 

1149 

posessions in India. 

Performance of National acts for 

enemy subjects by His Majestys 

Consular officers. Declaration 

regareding ownership of 

securities. Instruction regarding. 

1150 War with Italy. 

1151 

1152 

1153 

1154 

1155 

Progs., Nos. 20(26)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Instructions issued to the Censor 

Authorities in India regarding the 

Concessions granted under 

telegraph censorship to the 

Foreign consular Officers in India. Progs., Nos. 19(7)-W, 

WAR 1940 

The Brazilian Consul at Calcutta 1940 Secret(A) 

Informed that his action in 

sending his specimen signature to 

the Censor station Calcutta direct 

was not in order. 


Roy Howard`s Mission. Defence 

of Australia of Netherlands East 

Indies U.S. Foreign Policy -U.S. 

President at election. 

Progs., Nos. 11(388)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

War Trade Lists- Gabbay family of 


Baghdad. Statutory listing of M/S. 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Ezra E. Gabbay, Baghdad. 

War Shipping - Control of a) 

Freights & fares of vessels 

registered in British India. 

Chartering of Indian registered 

ships ordinarily employed in the 

Coastal trades of India between 

India Burma and the Red Sea 

ports. 

(iii) to make recommendations 

regarding the methods of 

expanding the exports of the 

products of Indian manufacturing 

industry, (iv)to make 

recommendations as to the 

assistance which can be given by 

the recommendation as to the 

assistance which can be given by 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 14(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(B) 



WAR 

1156 

1157 

1158 

1159 

1160 

1161 

1162 

the Govt.of India to unofficial 

trade deligations, (v) for the ....... 

Circular issued by the Accountant 

General Central Revenues 

Regarding procedure to be 

followed in making payments due 

to enemy firms. 

Precis of political Tendarcies of 

the Palestine Press. 

Censorship Interception- letter 

from S.Rahmathullah Sahib, 

Tanjore, India to Societa 

Commissionaria Di Espotazione, 

Penag being an endeavour to get 

money out of India to a Foreign 

Address. 

Instructions that trading with 

persons residents of Denmark 

and occupies parts of Norway (by 

Germany) is to be regarded as 

trading with ebemies under Rule 

97()b) & (e) of Defence of India 

Rules. 

Propoganda use of articles in the 

Turkish Press for Propoganda 

purposes for trhe May and June 

1940. 

Enquiry from the Swiss Legation 

London , wheather objection 

would be raised to the Consul 

General for Switzerland at 

Bombay Taking Charge of 

German Interest at Goa. 2. 

Refusal to allow the Swiss C.G. at 

Bombay Taing Charge of German 

Interest at Goa. 

Censorship Interception Airmail 

letter from V.Bhagwandas & Co., 

Laminivas, Karachi, to 

B.Naraindas, Kobe, regarding 

sending of cloth to heart by 

Russian. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(12)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 48-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 63 -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(45)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



WAR 

1163 

1164 

1165 

1166 

1167 

1168 

1169 

Internment of Jan B.Werecki 

Polish courier, stated to be en 

route to South America and 

connected with subversive 

activities in Polish Brigade in the 

middle east. (2) question of his 

repatriation to middle east for 

questioning regarding above. 


enemy activities, Pahlevi. 

Export Trade Control- Issue of 

certificate in respect of goods 

imported into French India from 

British india for reexport to 

France and the French Colonies. 

Decision to relax the procedure 

given above. 

Instructions to local authorities 

That presence at registered 

foreigners should be checked 

beginings with Hangarians 

Russians Japanese and Armsians. 

Question of treatment of begs as 

Russians. 

Grant of Concessions under 

telegraph and postal censorship 

to the General Officer 

Commanding Nepalese 

Contingent in India. 

Suspension of postal 

communications with Norway 

Finland and the Union od Soviet 

Socialist Republics. Suspension 

and resumption of the postal 

communication with Sweden 

Lettoria Lithuania and Estonia. 

Foreign Consular officers 

informed of the above changes. 

Complaint made through the 

Spanish Consul at Bombay by Mr. 

P. Gullino, an Italian intrnee at 

Ahmadnagar on behalf of all 

Italian Civil internee in Aden 

Progs., Nos. 20(22)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(380)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 14(41)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 60-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 44-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 20(32)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1170 

1171 

1172 

1173 

1174 

1175 

1176 

1177 

1178 

regarding the treatment accorded 

to them in Jail. 

Discontinuance of the System of 

despatch of Foreign telegrams on 

telephone. 

Permission to the payment of 

debts due to internees who are 

enemy firms within the meaning 

of the defence of India Rules and 

whose property is for the time 

being not vested in the Custodian 

of enemy Property. 

Memorandum of Instructions for 

dealing with Estates of Personnal 

who are teitted or die on acting 

service in or out of India. 

if once an order under Rule 26 of 

the Defence of India Rules is 

passed against him & her. 

Reuest by Newspapers for Supply 

to them of Material for article on 

Subjects connected with the 

conference on war effort. 

List of places and areas declared 

to be protected under the 


Supply of Funds to meet the 

Needs of the interned officer and 

crew of certain ``Lloyd 

Triestino`` vessels. 

American Affaris. 2. Panama 

Conference of the American 

Republics.3. Creation of Maritime 

Security Zone.4. Battle of the 

River Plate and other incidents in 

the Maritime Security Zone. 

Progs., Nos. 28-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 20(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 62(5) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 8(14) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(14)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Action to be taken in the event of 

war with Italy- a) Detention of 

Italian shipping and neutral 

shipping bound for Italian 

Progs., 

1940(A) 

Nos. 4(7)-W, 

WAR 1940 

possessions or conveying cargo of 

Italian origin and control on 



WAR 

1179 

1180 

1181 

1182 

1183 

1184 

1185 

1186 

exports to Italy and her 

possessions and to certain neutral 

countries in Europe. 

Indian Coinage (Amendment) 

Ordiance , 1940 action taken in 

respect of areas with which the 


covered. 

1. Preparation for eventuality of 

War with Japan-treatment of 

Japanese Nationals. 2. Measures 

Preventing departure of Japanese 

Subjects -Exit Permits System in 

Colonies etc. 

Regular Shipping service between 

Madras and Rangoon by the 

British India Steam Navigation 

company. 

Request by the Belgian Consuls 

General at Calcutta and Bombay 

for permission to send to their 

Legation at Berne, Switzerland 

funds collected in India for the 

Belgian prisoners in Germany. 

Enquiry from Red Cross 

Association as to the existing 

channels through which gifts are 

sent to ......... 


interception regarding Thailand 

and Finance. 

Use of certain Codes in 

telegraphic Communications 

between Countries Other than 

Enemy countries and those in 

enemy Possession. 

Censorship interception Change in 

the staf of Dendo Bucki Kaisha, 

Calcutta. 

Enquiry by the British Legation, 

Kabul regarding the Possibility of 

Passage for England for Mr. 

Progs., Nos. 61(8) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Progs., Nos. 11(250)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(125)-W, 

1940 Secret 

WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1187 

1188 

1189 

1190 

1191 

1192 

1193 

Yadgaroff, a Central Asian Jew. 

Replay that Mr. Yadgaroff may be 

advised to arrange fora Passage 

by communicating Direct with M/s 

Thomas Coo and Son, Delhi or 

Bombay. 

issued by M/s Cor& King agents 

for London chamber of Commerce Progs., 

are not to be Detained ever if of 1940(B) 

German Origin. 

Nos. 4(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1.Censorship measures to be 

taken or contemplated to be 

taken in regard to Italy prior to 

any actual outbreak of hostilities. 

2. Instructions issued to all 

censors in India regarding the 

action to be taken by them in the 

event of Spain entering the war 

against Britain. 3. Restoration of 

the diplomatice privileges... 

Figures regarding Itakian 

prisoners of war in India . 

Preparation for eventuality of War 

with Spair Detention of Shipping 

etc. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) (A) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Request of the Reseuthal to 

communicate with Persons in 

occupied and unoccupied France, 

in connection with the Property of 

Progs., Nos. 67(10)-W, 

H.H. the Maharajah of Kashmir in 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

that country. The name of M. 

Didot , France vice Consul in 

Calcutta Suggested for cutifying 

the Power of attomey. 

Registration of European British 

Sunjects. Registration 

(Emergency Power) Act 1940(I of 

1940). 

Request by the British Legation , 

Kabul to be Supplied Direct with 

who taken by Censorship officer 

Peshwar , intercepted Letter 

containing Propaganda Material. 

Progs., Nos. 59-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1194 

Stations for passive Air Defence 

purposes Reclassification of Gilgit 

from a class II to class III 

Statioon. 


WAR 1940 

1940(C) 


Progs., Nos. 11(393)-W, 

1195 Restrictions, imposed upon the 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Twish traders by the Afghan Govt. 

1196 

1197 

1198 

1199 

1200 

1201 

1202 

Eastern Group conference and the 

Ministerable of Supply Mission 9re 

the report Mission) to settle a 

joint Policy on the co-ordination 

and Devolopment of the Emperior 

resource for the Purpose of war. 

Progs., Nos. 8(14) -W, 

WAR 

1940(A) 

1940 

Petitions of Mr. G. Marini, an 

Italian internee in Ahmednagar 

for an increase in the subsistence 

allowance of his family. 

Progs., Nos. 20(29)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Import Trade Contral. Restrictions 

on bringing into British India of 

certain conditions. Action Taken 

in regard to the areas with which 

Progs., 

External affairs Department is 

1940 

concerned List of Files with Brief 

Subjects given to Depy. Secretary 

for discusion with Col. Sctomterg 

on the Fomess visit to Bombay. 

Nos. 66(1)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Air Raid Precautions Change of 

classification of Delhi(Civil) from 

class II to Class I. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Censorship interception.-- 

Correspondence, French Consul 

Affairs finances of the French 

Consulate Bombay, 

Relinquishment of office as Consul 

General, Calcutta, by Mr. Bubois. 

Progs., Nos. 11(337)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 

Proposed admission into India of 

Polish consular officers and their 

families in Roumania in the event 

of the Polish Consulate there 

closing down. Proposal dropped. 

Interrogation report on Meerkemp 

van Embader a Dutch national 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

1203 

1204 

1205 

1206 

1207 

1208 

1209 

1210 

who is suspected of Pro-Nazi 

sympathies. 



to the Collector of the Poona 

district, in the Bombay 

Presidency. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Afghan Govt. request that Certain 

of their Subjects who are 

proceeding to India to make Progs., Nos. 11(428)-W, 

WAR 1940 

purchases be afforded all facilities 1940 (Secret) 

no action to be taken on such 

requests specifically asked for. 

Ministry of Economic Warfares 

Memorandum on the policy to be Progs., Nos. 33-W, 1940 

WAR 1940 

observed respecting the 

(Secret) 

Statutary, Black and Suspect List. 

Presentation of H.H. Queen 

Elizabaths portrait to widows etc. 

of V.C.Os. and Indian ranks who 

are filled in action or die of 

worunds or disease during the 

present war. Suggestion of 

sending an accompanying letter 

from Her Excellency Lady 

linlithson. 

Procedure adopted for the 

duration of war in respect of 

proposals for special legislation 

immedietely attributble to War. 

Censorship Interception of a cable 

from Lloyad Triestino, Brindisi to 

their firm in Karachi-Ammunition 

from Italy through Karachi to 

Shanghai. 

Fortnightly extracts of Summaries 

of information received from 

Army Headquarters India. 

Request of the Afghan Consul at 

Bombay for permission to export 

certain gramophone records to 

Angora and Moscow. 

Progs., Nos. 40-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 12-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(13)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(17)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

1211 

1212 

1213 

1214 

1215 

1216 

1217 

1218 

1219 

Petition from Mr. Jai Ram 

proprietor of station View Hotel 

Quetta for the recovery of Hotel 

bills from certain German 

Subjects. 

Proposal to creats a Reserve of 

officers for Indian States Forces 

Units, Offered by States for 

Service with His Majesty`s 

Forces. 

War Trade Lists : Additions to and 

removals from the War Trade 

Lists of the Names of certain 

firms. 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Grant of concessions as a Special 

Case to the Netherlands Consul 

General Calcutta regarding the 

Use of Abbreviated addresses in 

his telegrams to certain dutch 

Authorities abroad and sending of 

telegrams in his language to 

Heads of Netherlands Indies Govt. 


WAR 


1940 

Utilisation of medical stocks held 

by Bayer Remedies Ltd. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

1) Enquiry by the consul for 

Denmark at Bombay regarding 

the arrest of Mrs. K. Andersen. 2) Progs., Nos. 20(16)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Enquiry by the Consul-General for 1940(Secret)(A) 

Belgium at Calcutta regarding 

............ 

Notification issued by the Govt. of 

Burma instituting limited control 

of Ships stores in Burma. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Question of release and 

repatriation of Mr. Hans Richard 

Progs., 

Schilling an America National who 

1940 

was intermed under the 

Foreigners Act 1940. 

Nos. 6(21)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Amendment Lists Nos. 2 and 3 to 

the Instructions to the War 

Watching Stations (India) 1938 

and the War Watching Manual 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



WAR 

1220 

1221 

1222 

1223 

1224 

1225 

1226 

1227 

(India) 1938 respectively. 

Refusal to permit remittance of 

moneys belongings to Dr. Walter 

Pausch former acting consul 

General for German at Calcutta 

being the sale proceeds of his 

Progs., 

1940 

Nos. 50(5)-W, 

WAR 1940 

furniture by the Consul General of 

Switzerland Calcutta. 

Cargoes on enemy ships in 

neutral ports. Irohibition of brings 

into India of Goods which formed Progs., 

port of the cargoes on enemy 1940 

Ships (Italian, French and other 

non-German enemy Ships). 

Nos. 4(14)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Gecho -Slovakia (Financial claims 

and refugees ) Act, 1940. 

The Egyptian Tonuage 

(Amendment) order , 1940. 

Progs., Nos. 61(2) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 61(11) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Instructions from Ministry 

Shipping thaty it is importants not 

to occupy with luxuries and non 

essential articles any Space in 

livers which can be used for 

necessary cargo of high priority. 

Progs., 

1940 

Nos. 4(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

3. Decission to censor Such mails 

they do call at a Br. Port as it 

would be impossible to compel 

neutral vessels to call at a British 

port for the Censorship of their 

mails. 

Transmission of Letters received 

from the Afghan ministry of 

Foreign Atticle the British 

Legation, Kabul to Italian 

Subjects interned in India. 

Supply of the revised edition of 

the passive Air Defence 

Publication viz. Protection against 

gas and air raids pamphlet no.3 

passive Air Defence 1940(India) 

to authorities under the External 

Affairs Deptt. 2) Gilgit Agency Air 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 10(12) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 



WAR 

1228 

1229 

1230 

1231 

1232 

1233 

1234 

Defence Scheme. 

Enquiry made by the Swiss 

Consul Bombay regarding the 

repatriation of German Internees 

in India. Decision to take any 

action for the time being. 

Measures taken to avoid delay 

complained of by the Swiss 

Consul General in the 

transmission of letters from 

Internees representatives to him. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Consul General for Iran informed 

of the irregularity committed by 

him in certifying on the back of a 

cover addressed to a private 

individual in Tehran, by Iranian 

Consul, Delhi, that it contained 

only official correspondence, on 

the business of the Consulate 

General. Interception by Military 

Censor, Karachi, of a letter ------- 

- , 


WAR 


1940 


from Bombay to Japanese 


Guarantee by Thai Government to 

Norwegian Shipping against 

possible German interference. 

Jurisdiction of Martime States 

over Theri territorial Waters. 

Use of articles in the Turkish 

Press for propoganda purposes. 

Article entitled A Magnidicent 

success, not of German 

Reconnasissance units but of 

German Photo-Montago which 

appeared in the Ulus Ankora of 

the 8th May 1940. 

Question of payment of dents 

owed by Italian in Kabul to Jisims 

in India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(145)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


1940 

WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 20(17)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

1235 Amendment to Delhi House Rent Progs., Nos. 61(9) -W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

1236 

1237 

1238 

1239 

1240 

1241 

1242 

1243 

control Order , 1939 the Hotel 

and Lodging House control Order 

1939. 

1940 

Indication of charitable activities 

during the War by British subjects 

and societies in Foreign countries 

as also by friendly neutral citizens 

Progs., Nos. 

and societies. Question of 

1940 (Secret) 

showing India Office Prints on the 

above subject to Indian Red Cross 

Society and Amenties for Troops 

Fund Committee. 

35(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Enquiry by N.W.F.P. Govt. if the 

application of the Frontier crimes 

Progs., Nos. 61(12) -W, 

Regulation , 1901 Tribal Areas of 

WAR 1940 

1940 

the N.W.F.P is to be permanent of 

the Duration of War. 

Instructions or messages which 

they may desire to send to 

Batavia may be passed through 

the Naval Communications 

Organisation. 

Contribution by His Highness the 

Maharaja of Nepal towards 

various war Purposes Funds in 

India adn London. 

Censorship Interception of the 

correspondence of a mysterious 

Correspondent styling himself 

Nabi Isa Masih, (The Propeht 

Jesus Churist) of Basra. 

Censorhip Interceptions. Affairs, 

of Richard E. Metz, Bombay. 

Wireless apparatuses of the S.S. 

Miner Removing the Genrator of 

the Transmitters by Mereantile 

Marine Department. 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret(D) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(424)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(450)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Question of the internment of 

Monsieur Gabrict Marod-Herzam a 

Progs., Nos. 

French National residing in French 

1940(A) 

Pondicherry on his crossing into 

British India under the Foreigner 

6(17)-W, 

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WAR 

Act 1940. Calling up by the rench 

Governer of Monseiur G.round 

Herze for General de Caullers 

forces in Egypt. Decision that 

............... 


from Mr. Kynno Oino, Bangkok, to 

Progs., Nos. 11(153)-W, 

1244 Mr. Kancko, Bagdad, regarding 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

the visit of the writer and Mr 

Matsuura to Tehran. 

Transmission of money received 

from abroad to Internees in India. Progs., Nos. 20-W, 1940 

1245 

WAR 1940 

Permission granted to the Swiss Secret 

consul General for----- 

1246 

1247 

1248 

1249 

Placing of cetain firms in Thailand 

on the suspect list of H. M. Gs` 

War Trade Lists, on the 

recommendations of the Minister, 

Bangkok to the Ministry of 

Economic Warfare. 2. Export 

licences to certain firms in 

Thailand placed on the Suspect 

List of H. M. G`s War Trade Lists. 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Protest from the Japanese 

Government againest Department 

Progs., 

Notification dated the 20th May 

1940 

1940 restricting import of certain 

articles into India. 

Nos. 66(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Censorship interception. Increase 

in money order going from 

Malaya to Arabia. 

Meeting held to discuss the 

working of the Censorship and 

press advising regulations. 


1251 

Instructions issued to authorities 

under external affairs Deptt. that 

no information regarding the 

movements etc., of military 

aircraft should be communicated 

evclain to any authority in or 

Progs., Nos. 11(192)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


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1940 


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1940(A) 



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1253 

1254 

1255 

1256 

1257 

1258 

outside India. ............ 

Reconstruction of conference of 

the East African Governors in 

Order to Provide fora more 

effective coordination of 

Resources etc. in the common 

war efforts of the east African 

Dependencies. 

Censorship interception offer of 

Italian Beer made from German 

hops. Letter from Padova to 

Rangoon. 

Supply to the Defence Coordinate 

Deptt. of Copies of 

orders issued by the External 

affairs Deptt. under the Defence 

of India Action Rules but not 

published in the Gazette of India. 

Enquiry by the consul-General for 

netherlands at Calcutta whether 

be should supply to B.V. 

Twensche Overseas Trading Co. a 

list of address of supplies of 

various articles which their want 

to import from India. 

Progs., Nos. 8(16) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(106)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 


Afghan Trade with non-belligerent 

Countries provision of military 

motor Vehicles wool trade 

chemical industry hides and Skins 

etc. 

Progs., Nos. 11(142)-W, 

WAR 

1940 (Secret) 

1940 

Postal facilities for despatching 

correspondence and parcels from 

the United Kingdom to prisoners 

of war and Civilians interned 

abroad. 

Censorhip Interceptions. -- 

Irregular use of diplomatic mail 

bags-- Enquiries about Marini 

family-- Italian in India. 

Progs., Nos. 55-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(453)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 



1259 WAR 1940 

Notification declaring certain firms 1940 (Secret) (Part-II) 



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1261 

1262 

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1264 

1265 

1266 

as enemy firms and Vesting of 

Property with the Custodian of 

Enemy Property. Supply of the 

Copies of the Notification on the 

alone Subject to the authorities 

under the-Exernal Affairs Deptt. it 

H.M`s Consul Kashgar, Nepal etc. 

Request by the Brazilian Consul, 

Calcutta for the repatriation of 

Signor Carlo L. Brambilla, un 

Italian national in internment in 

India. 

The Draft Emergency Powers 

ordiance 2. The Anti War 

Campaign by the All India 

national Congress. 

Censorship interception Telegram 

from Divine UK, address to 

Elrpeth Graham Imperial anyway 

Bahran. 

Question whether the Japanese 

Consulate General were sending 

and receiving code telegrams on 

behalf of certain Japanese firms 

in India. Decision to take no 

action as there was no definite 

proof available. 

Censorship interception. Order 

issued by Wazi Azam, Kalat State 

to detain by Italian found within 

State precincts in order to 

present their departure to Iran of 

Afghansitan or from Mekran Post 

any other District. 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 61(10) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(132)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 19(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(166)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

e) Undertaking to Secretary of 

State that the P.R. in the P.G. will 

be kept informed of all trade and Progs., 

Shipping restrictions that are 1940(C) 

inforced in British India from time 

to time. 

Nos. 4(7)-W, 

WAR 1940 

War Supplies of Timber -Proposed 

conference called for by the 

Department of Supply of the 


WAR 1940 

1940 



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1268 

1269 

1270 

1271 

1272 

Delegutes from the Central and 

Proviential Govt. and certain 

Indian States. 


Sweden and Finland. 

The Foreign Consular officers at 

Simla and New Delhi asked to 

present their official 

Correspondence which require 

franking by censor at the Chief 

Censor`s office. Nizam Palace 

New Delhi and that Chief Censor 

could not arrange such franked 

correspondence to be posted by 

that Office. Concessions granted 

to the Netherlands Consul 

General at Calcutta Simla 

Decision of the Afghan Govt. to 

introduce in system of stamping 

consular certificates. 

Supply to the consul for Egypt at 

Bombay of copies of notification 

issued by the Commerce Deptt. 

on matters relating to Trade and 

Commerce since the outbreak of 

the war. 


Notification regarding ememy 

control of ememy funds and 

Control of Enemy Property issued 

by the defence coordination and 

Commerce Deptt. 

Claim of Mr. Suleman Haji Ahmad 

Omar made through messrs. 

Mulla & Mulla Solicitons, Bombay, 

for the rent of the building 

occupied by the Italian Consul- 

General at Bombar. Messrs. Mulla 

& Mulla, Solicitors, advised to 

subject the claim of their client to 

the Director General of 

commercial Intelligence and 

Statistics, Calcutta. 

Progs., Nos. 11(396)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 


Progs., Nos. 14(37)-W, 

WAR 1940 



WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940 



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1273 

1274 

1275 

1276 

1277 

1278 

1279 

Indias contribution towords 

Greece s War effort. 

Propaganda.-Articles in the 

Turkish Press. Use of -for 


Restrictions on the grant of leave 

ex-India to I.M.S. officers. 

Decision that the D.G. I.M.S. 

should be consulted in all such 

cases. 

Reserve Stocks of Coal during 

Slack Railway Season. 

Restriction on private foreign 

telegrams to and from India. 

Withholding by the Bombay 

censorship authorities of 

telegrams written in Arabic from 

H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Soudi 

Arabia to private persons in 

Bombay. 

Circular issued by the Ministry of 

Economic war fare London 

concerning the effect of the 

provision of the Trading with the 

Evony Act on the activities of 

British Insurance compaier. 2) 

Memorandum on General 

Principles rearding Trading with 

the Enemy. 3) The Defence 

(Trding with the Enemy) 

Regulation, 1940 and 

amendments thereto. 

Decision of His Majesty's 

Government that the territories 

comprising (i)Certain part of 

Poland (ii)Denmark (excluding 

Greenland and Faroe Islands) 

(iii)Norway (excluding Northern 

Provinces) (iv) Netherlands 

(excluding dependencies) 

(v)Grant Duchy of Luxembourg 

(vi)Belgium and (vii)France 

Should be regarded as enemy 

Progs., Nos. 8(20) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 19(10)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 



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1281 

1282 

1283 

1284 

1285 

territories for the purposes of the 

Defence of India Rules 

Request made to the Consul- 

General for the Netherlands to 

Cooperate i tracing and detaining 

Dutch nationals in India who may 

be suspected of Pro-Nazi 

Sympathies. 

Netherlands Govt. would require 

Mr. Shouten to resign his 

appointment on being called up 

for active service and if not 

whether they would impose any 

conditions upon any terms which 

the Govt. of India might be 

prepared to grant him. 

Grant of permission to the Polish 

Consul General at Bombay to 

send tothe Polish Diplomatic and 

Consular officers in Allied and 

neutral Countries pamphlets 

entitled resumictories adn 

Aspects of Poland. Decision 

to send the above pamphlet as 

part of the polish consul generals 

post and not under postal 

permits. 

The War Douation and 

Investments(Companies) Act, 

1940. 

Execution of Mlle. Abice Buschie a 

Swiss National suspected of 

processing German Sympathies 

from the N.W.F.P. where she was 

employed to live subject ......... 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 

Progs., Nos. 18(23)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (A) 

Progs., Nos. 18(23)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (B) 

Progs., Nos. 61(13) -W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(A) 

Import Trade Coutral. Notification 

etc. regarding Supply of copies of Progs., 

1286 

- to the authorities with Whome 1940 

the E.A. Department is concemed. 

Nos. 66(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1287 

Memorandum prepared by the 

Deptt. of Commerce on the policy 

adopted by the Govt. of India in 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 



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1289 

1290 

1291 

1292 

1293 

1294 

the matter of the control of 

enemy firms. 


telegrams retrade in opium etc 

between Afghanistan Iran and 

other Countries. 

Progs., Nos. 11(190)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

1.Exemption from Consorship of 

Postal and Telegraph 

communications enchanged 

between the Governor of the 

French India and Genral Catoux. 

Delegate Genral of General De. 

Ganlle for East. 2. Decision that 

Chief Consur should Supply E.A. 

Department with Copies of certain 

telegrams enchanged between 

the Governor of Pondichery and 

General Catrux. 

Progs., Nos. 67(11)-W, 

WAR 

1940(Secret) 

1940 

Recommendation by the 

controller of Enemy Trading in 

India for inclusion in the United 

Kingdom war trade lists of the 

names of certain firms board to 

be trading with enemy. 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Enquiry by Nepalese Consul 

General as to how his Mails would Progs., Nos. 18(18)-W, 

WAR 1940 

be affected by the new Local 1940 

Censorship of Simla mails 

the allied prisoners of war. 

Collection in India of funds for the Progs., Nos. 

relief of Brlgian refugees in 1940(B) 

England. 

55(5)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Amendments to Rule 89 of the 

Defence of India Rules regarding 

the Conferring of Supplementary 

powers in respect of road 

transport, and an additional 

clause to rule 88 about providing 

the necessary powers in respect 

of inland water transport. 

Yhe Control of Internees Property 

order 1939-Amendments to--. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940 



WAR 

1295 

1296 

1297 

1298 

1299 

1300 

1301 

1302 

if it were found that the consular 

mails were being used for the 

conveyance of non-consular 

correspondence. Disposal of 

correspondence of enemy 

nationals in Goa sent to the 

Japanese Consul General at 

Bombay by the Italian Consul at 

Yokohama for onward 

transmission in Japanese 

Consular envelopes. 

Anti-British Propoganda by 

German Instructions to 

authorities under E.A. Deptt. to 

Checl the likely entry and 

circulation into India of a bool 

entitled Britain with the mask off. 

Censorship interception. Al 

Wakalatual Arabia an Arabic 

Circular Published at Damascenes 

and addressed to certain 

addresses in Laheg. 

Amendment to the Regulations 

for the maintenance of the 

discipline among Enemy 

Internees, 1939. 


Germans in Marmagao. 

Progs., Nos. 18(11)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret)(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

Progs., Nos. 11(180)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(389)-W, 

WAR 1940 

(Secret) 

Censorship interception Political 

Situation in Egypt. Letter from Sir 

Progs., Nos. 11(318)-W, 

Edward Cook, Governor, of the 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

national, Bank of Egypt, to B.C.A 

Cook, Bombay. 

Guarantee by H.Ms. Govt. in 

United Kingdom of payments of 

any disbursements by local 

agents in respect of Norwegian 

Ships in Indian Ports. 

Supply of copies of current notes 

an International Affairs & the 

Govt. of Australia. 


WAR 1940 

1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(Secret) 

1303 1. Consolidated Statement issued Progs., Nos. 7(7)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

1304 

1305 

1306 

1307 

1308 

1309 

by the Defence Coordination 1940 (Secret) 

Deptt. Showing the delegation of 

powers made by the Central and 

Provincial Governments under the 

Defence of India Rules - E. A. 

Deptt. and Baluchistan 

administrations requirements. 2. 

Decision that Orders under Rule 

79 of D. I. Rules need only be 

served on the owner a occupiers 

of the areas cencerned without 

Gazette notification. 

Censorship interception. Mr. J.L. 

Marshall, reporter of Calia 

Weekly, of Manilla visit of --- to 

India, Mr. J.L. Marshall views on 

un-rest in India. 


Abbreviated registered cable 

addresses, supplied by Chief, 

Censor Honkong. 


British Legation Kabul about the 

lambing of two addressed to the 

Oriental Secretary of the British 

Legation Kabul. 

Restrictions on the movements of 

aircraft in India. Treatment to be 

accorded to the French Aircraft 

landing in India. Amendments to 

the Air Restrictions Notification 

issued by the Communication 

Deptt. 

the communications relating to 

the detention of Shipoair may not 

be sent to A.G.C. Baluchistan as 

Kalat and Las Bela have no arms 

of detaining shipping. 

Enquiryby Col. Gai through 

Financial Commissions regarding 

the method of communication 

with his family in France. 

Progs., Nos. 11(321)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(340)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(28)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 49-W, 1940 WAR 1940 


WAR 1940 

1940(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

1310 at present the delegation of these Progs., Nos. 6(12)-W, WAR 1940 



WAR 

1311 

powers to Chief Commissioner 

Baluchistan etc. is not necessary. 

Enemy Property (Custody and 

Registration) order 1939, 

Amendments to. 

1940(B) 


WAR 1940 

1940 

1312 Lescars war Risks compensations. Progs., Nos. 57-W, 1940 WAR 1940 

1313 

1314 

1083 

1084 

1085 

1086 


the tour of India, by Eddie 

Bookout concerning his efforts to 

sell earth work machinery etc. 

Progs., Nos. 11(151)-W, 

WAR 1940 

1940 (Secret) 

a Dutch Lady who was stopped by 

the C.I.E. authorities at Jamrud 

on her way to Kabul). Delegation Progs., 

of powers to Cantonment Military 1940(B) 

officers to remove foreigners from 

cantonments. 

Nos. 6(2)-W, 

WAR 1940 

Passage from Bangkok to India of 

Mrs. Haruko Duncan a Japanese 

lady wife of Lt. M. Duncan and 

child. 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Request for the expeditions 

examination of contents of the 

baggage of Chinese Students 

repatriated from Germany via Progs., Nos. 

India. Interogation of the Chinese 1941Secret 

Students --Question of 

obstructing the passage of pro- 

Nazi Individuals through India. 

6(5)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Weely News Reports received 

from General Staff Branch. 

Progs., Nos. 77-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

(1) Complaint of the Afghan 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

regarding censorship of a cover 

addressed by the Afghan Trade 

Agent at Parachinar to the Afghan 

Progs., Nos. 10(27)-W, 

Ministry of National Economy. (2) 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Question of the grant concessions 

to the Afghan Trade Agents in 

India to address and receive 

official covers written in the 

Persian language. 



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1087 

1088 

1089 

1090 

1091 

1092 

1093 

1094 

Grant of concessions under the 

telegraphic censorship to the 

Hony. consul for the Netherlands 

at Bombay. Grant of Concessions 

under the Postal & telegraph 

censorship to Netherland Naval 

Service Officer at Bombay(Lt. 

Commander J.A.Smaal.) 

Supply of Quinidine Sulphate by 

M/s. Quinine Fabriek Bandoeng 

(Java), for the British forces in 

the Middle East. 


WAR 1941 



WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

exchanged by the route subject to 

production before the Custom 

Officers at Vapu. (III) Decision 

that all transit telegrams should 

be examined by the Censors and 

that those definitely against the 

Allied cause should be stopped. 


WAR 

1941(Confiential)(B) 

1941 

Censorship Restrictions on the 

import into India of Iranian 

newspapers. 

Enemy Trading Enquiries 

regarding the fims of Durononay-Cia, 

Buenos-Aires. 

Enemy Tranding-Correspondence 

between E.H. Houtman, Poste- 

Resante, Moute Carlo, to 

Nederlandsche Handel- 

Haatschappij, Batavia. 

Evasion of censorship by 

evacuees from Iraq in 

contravention of the ``Control of 

non-postal Communications 

Order, 1940.`` 

Censorship interceptions of a 

letter from C. Friis Jespersen, 

Thailand, to the Danish legation, 

Tehran, regarding the 

estabhisment of a Danish 

International Bank. 

Progs., Nos. 10(46)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(58)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(48)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(62)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

1095 Export Trade Control-Shipment to Progs., Nos. 15(8)-W, WAR 1941 



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1096 

1097 

1098 

1099 

1100 

1101 

1102 

1103 

Egypt and to other Countries via 

Egypt. 

Censorship Intercepts relating to 

Afghanistan Decision that E. A. 

Department should continue 

forwarding copies of the 

intercepts to the British Legation, 

Kabul. 

belligerent. Suggestion for a 

reciprocal arrangement enabling 

Italian or German officials 

proceeding to and from their 

posts to travel in neutral ships or 

aeroplanes touching at ports or 

landing places in British territory. 

Propsoed dropped the Army Air 

Force and..... 

Selection of a Persian Translator 

for the British Legation, Kabul. 

Purchase of gunny bags by 

Machonb Govt. from Calcutta. 

Licence granting monopoly to the 

East Asiatic Co. for the export of 

gunny bags. Refresed. 

Enemy Trading --- Leves, Tel, 

Aviv, Palestine. 

Export Trade Control-Export of 

cotton to the Far East (Korea, 

Manchina & Kwantung.) 

Internment of George Zeimes 

Alias King Kong and Constantin 

stanciu two Rumanian subjects 

under the Foreigners Act 1940 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(83)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret(B) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(73)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(20)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 29(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

(I) Complaints from the 

Portuguese Governor General in 

India about, 1.delay in 

transmission of official Portuguese 


Mails between Daman and 

WAR 1941 

1941(Confiential)(A) 

Silvassa and Vica Versa, and, 2. 

detention of letters containing 

lottery tickets by the Indian 

Censors. (II) Decision that 



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1104 

1105 

1106 

1107 

1108 

1315 

1316 

1317 

Portuguese Official mails between 

Daman and Silvassa may be------ 

Export Trade Control-Lac to 

China. 

Prize Procedure British Ports west 

at Karachi having Prize Courts 

Suitable for hold back guarantee 

for neutral gods to Syria. 

Censuship Intercepts and Special 

Reports in connection with the 

evanation of Japanese Subject 

from India. 

Transmission without censorship 

of official correspondence 

between the British Legation at 

Jedda & British Representatives in 

the Persian Gulf, etc. 

Progs., Nos. 15(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(47)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Use of Code a Check groups in 

foreign telegrams issued by banks 

in India-Question of authorizing 

Bank of China & Bank of 

Communications at Calcutta to 

enjoy the privilege. 

Progs., 

1941 

Nos. 8(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Correspondence of internees. 

Letters addressed to certain 

inlimits by the Commandant Progs., Nos. 

Central Intrument Camp Colombo 1941 Secret 

for disposal as the addresses 

were not interned in that Camp. 

38(2)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Ship Warrant Scheme. 

Enforcement of the Scheme at 

Bahrain. Treatment of Yugoslav 

Japanese Greek & Russian 

Shipping. Application for 

admirally Charts Instruction in 

respect of the --- 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

(3) Grant of permission to the 

American Consulate at Bombay to 

despatch on receive official mails Progs., Nos. 10(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 

by on from pouches carried in 1941(Secret)(B) 

American President line vessels 

calling at Bombay. 



WAR 

Evacuation of Indians from Japan- Progs., Nos. 35(39)-W, 

1318 WAR 1941 

General enquiries re:- 

1941 Secret 

1319 

1320 

1321 

1322 

1323 

1324 

1325 

1326 

Decision of H. M`s Govt. to 

postpone introduction a separate 

Diplomatic Airmail bag for the 

Army Headquarters. 

Requistion for the services of an 

expert to advise on the running 

and development of an Italian 

Cotton Factory at Diredawa in 

Italian East Africa, now in the 

occupation of His Majesty. 

Employment in India of 40 Greek 

experts from Persia in cultivation 

etc. of Oriental Tobbaco. 

(1) Amendments to Rule 22 of 

the Defence of India Rules and 

the Control of Non-Postal 

Communications Order,1940. (2) 

Restrictions on the taking out of 

British India of cinematograph 

films etc. (3) General Policy in 

regard to the Administration of 

the Non-Postal Communications 

Order,1940. 

Intercepted correspondence from 

and to Messrs. G.G. Abdeni and 

Co. Ltd., Baghdad, a 

statutorylisted firm. 

Enemy Trading, Correspondence 

between Yahya Zekaria Ghatan, 

Teheran, and a German Firm. 

Defence of India Rule-Confering 

of certain powers to certain 

officers of a under the supply 

Department. 

Enquiries re: the whereabouts of 

Turbines ordered by the Tata 

Chemicals & Ahmedabad 

Electricity Co.Ltd. from Sweden. 

Request to minister Teheran for 

assistance in respect of all 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Confidential) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 19(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 



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1327 

1328 

1329 

1330 

1331 

1332 

1333 

consignment of electrical 

equipment from Asea electric 

Co.Sweden. 

Export Trade Control-Insurance of 

goods with enemy companies 

against marine and war risks. 

Restrictions imposed by the 

Japanese authorities on trade 

between China & British 

territories. 

Question of Skoda, Tehran`s 

entering with business relations, 

with Skoda, India, convening 

supplied required by the British 

Military authorities at persia 2. 

Relations, between Skoda works, 

Kabul, and Skada works, Prague. 

Progs., Nos. 15(26)-W, 

1941Secret 

WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 15(134)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(87)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


Consul for Czechoslovakia at 

Bombay in regard to the use of 

abbreviated telegraph addresses 

in official telegrams exchanged by 

him with his Govt in London. 

Progs., 

1941 

Nos. 8(8)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Foreign office summaries re. 

Breaches of the Rules of Warfare 

by Germany Italy and Japan. 

Enquiry from the Secretary of 

State for India whether the 

summaries could be used for 


Jails in British India can receive 

prisoners arrested under a law in 

force outside British India. 

Enemy Trading-- Correspondence 

between Messrs. S. Dorabfee and 

sons, Bunder Abbas, and Messrs. 

S. Dolabjee and Sons, Tehran, 

forwarded by the former to Mr S. 

Dorabjee, Bombay. 


WAR 1941 

1941Confidential 

Progs., Nos. 19(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(B) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Discontinuance of the Supply of 

1334 Gurmukhi Editions Fanji Akhbar to Progs., Nos. 94-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Consul General, Meshed. 



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1335 

1336 

1337 

1338 

1339 

1340 

1341 

Objection of C.G, Meshed to 

direct correspondence between 

Govt. of India and the Vice Consul 

Zahidan & Zabal. 

Statements received from the 

Political Department Showing 

Cultural articles Published in 

British Indian Newspaper. 

War Trade List. Issue of war 

Trade list No5 and M.E.W.G. List 

No 2. Distruction of War Trade 

List No-4 and M.E.W. G List No.- 

1. 

Enemy Trading- Enquiries 

regarding the firm of J. 

Matsumoto and Co. Osaka. 

(Japan.) 

Consulates etc. (4) Instructions 

re: transitting Japanese 

Diplomatic mail to & from Kabul. 

(5) Alleged financial assistence 

given by Japanese Consul General 

to two Italian Prisoners of warquestion 

of amending S.216-B of 

I.P.C. to provide for the 

punishment of persons 

harbouring the escaped Prisoners 

of war in interness. 

Export Trade Control-Export 

licences for goods intended for 

consignces on the M.E.N.G. Lists 

a war trade Lists or Otherwise 

declared as Enemy. 

Declaration of enemy territories 

and enemy occupied territories. 

Custom Examination on governor 

frontier-- question of the Railway 

Department re-adjusting train 

timings (from Londa to Bombay) 

to facilitate passengers delayed at 

frontier station for examination, 

to catch the connecting trains. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(56)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(64)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 15(107)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 50-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(29)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



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1342 

1343 

1344 

1345 

1346 

1347 

1348 


Question of detaining 

correspondence pertaining to 

transactions with the Ottoman 

Bank of Baghdad, Iraq. 

Enquiries as to the Identity of lion 

and Co., P.O. Box 1577, cairo, 

with that of Lion and Co. Reina 

Nazil 77, Cario, which is on U.K. 

N.E.W. Co List no 3. 

Notes on various Austrian and 

German refugee organization in 

London. 

Progs., Nos. 39(77)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(74)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(46)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

and the maintenance of peaceful 

conditions in the tribal areas; (ii). 

empowering a Chief 

Commissioner to delegate his 

powers qua Provincial 

Government of Officers or 

authorities subordinate to him. 

(sub-section(5) of section 2 of the 

Act); and (iii). making the special 

provisions of the Indian Soldiers 

(Litigation)... 


WAR 

1941(Secret) (B) 

1941 

Question of recommending for 

black listing the name of O. 

Konstantin-Hansen representing 

in Iran the Atlas Company of 

Copenhagan. 2. Enquries 

regarding activities of H. Storch 

Nielsen and B. Plaetner-Moeller. 

Grant of concessions under Postal 

censorship to Foreign Consular 

Officers in India.(2) Question of 

disallowing correspondence 

between consular officers 

enjoying concessions under Postal 

censorship and the Customs 

Department of their Govt. - 

Dropped. 

War Supplies-Formation of G.H.Q. 

Supply Development Committee. 

Progs., Nos. 18(66)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 21(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

1349 Enemy Trading-- Inclusion of W. Progs., Nos. 18(40)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1350 

1351 

1352 

1353 

1354 

1355 

1356 

1357 

1358 

1359 

Wleuk in the Statutory List. 

Question of inclusing the Jav 

China Trading Comapny Ltd., 

Shanghai, in the Suspect list of 

H.M.G`s war Trade list--. 

Export Trade Control- 

Afghanistan-Procedure to the 

observed in respect of goods 

imported into India for purposes 

of repairs & subsequently reexported. 

Enemy Trading-- Enquiries into 

the identity of M/s M. Takata, 

Kabe, and M/s Takata and Co., 

Kobe-Ku. 

Censorship Interceptions-Trade 

between Non-Enemy Countries. 

dExport Trade Control-Iran-Cotter 

Pins and Smoe Sheet Rubber for 

Uttam Chand Kohli-Licence for 

the farmer refused owing to 

supply position in India. 

Preparation for eventuality of war 

with Spain-Censorship measures. 

Censorship Interceptions-Enemy 

Trading 

Request of the Netherlands 

Consul General at Calcutta for 

forwarding a packet with 

E.A.Deptt. Air Mail to U.K. 

Censorship arrangements 

regarding publications arriving 

from Japan and occupies China. 

Summaries of important war 

matters dealt with in the External 

Affairs Deptt. for the period 

ending 31st December 1940. 

Discontinuance of monthly 

Summaries. 

Export Trade Control-Release of 

goods intended for use in the 

textile company at Phul-i-Khumri. 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(125)-W, 

WAR 194 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(44)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(126)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(32)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(43)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(50)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 



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1360 

1361 

1362 

1363 

1364 

1365 

1366 

1367 

Request of M. Akos Milko formerly 

Honorary Consul for Hungary at 

Progs., Nos. 25(19)-W, 

Bombay to Immigrate to U.S.with 

WAR 1941 

1941 

his personal property and Capital- 

Negative. 

Control of Foreigners including 

Missionaries of Enemy Nationality 

.2. Treatment of British Subjects 

of enemy origin.3. Restrictions on 

the Place of Residence of 

Realesed refugees. 

Suggestions from India office 

regarding the holding of 

messages of economic warfare 

interest, intercepted in 

censorship. 

Correspondence in respect of 

certain Consignments ex. 

S.S.Florence Luckenbach etc., 

destined for Palestine Transjordan 

etc., etc., and held up in India. 

Obligation if there is any extends 

to the Ruler of an Indian States. 

formed or to make an investment 

of the funds belonging to the 

body in a Govt. loan floated for 

the Purpose of assisting the 

prosecution of the war. 

Request by Mother Irma 

Josephine (French National) of 

the Holy Cross School , Siolin , 

Patuguen for grant of Permission 

to Visit British India, Navigated. 

(1) Congratulatory message sent 

by the Maharaja of Bekanir on the 

expulsion of German & India 

nationals from Kabul, to Minister, 

Kabul. (2) Necessity for the 

examination of en-clair telegrams 

sent to British Legation, Kabulappointment 

of K.B.Ibrahim 

Khalil, Provincial Press adviser, 

N.W.F.Provision t do this duty. 


WAR 1941 



WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 37(29)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 37(27)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret(b) 

Progs., Nos. 30(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(59)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1368 

1369 

1370 

1371 

1372 

1373 

1374 

1375 

1376 

1377 

Employment of Mons. Momal 

formerly head of the French 

School in Kabul as Director of 

French School in Damascus 

(Syria). 

Offer of services by Messrs. V. F. 

Fait, E. Bret, V. Y. Baus, V. 

Cervinka, J. Zahorsky, J. bures, 

Czech nationals and Mr. 

Guerpillion, a French national in 

Afghanistan. 2. Permission 

accorded to Mr. Bret, to come 

into India in order to escape 

deportation from Afghanistan to 

Germany at the instigation of 

German Legation, Kabul.--- 

Censorship Interception-Africa- 

Conditions of Indians etc. 

Censorship Interceptions- Sweden 

and Swedes. Regarding. 

Progs., Nos. 59(37)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) (A) 

Progs., Nos. 39(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(48)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Procedure observed regarding 

baggage and body examination of Progs., Nos. 

Japanese Nationals having India 1941 Secret 

in the Hie Maru. 

7(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Enemy Tranding-- Question of the 

Black-listing o 1. M/s Dicthehu 

and Co. Bangkok 2. Drogaria 

andrade Sa, Nova Goa. 

Export Trade Control-Instruction 

relating to Exports to Japan, 

Japanese-Controlled territories & 

China. 

Tals of Fifth column activities 

Sent to All India radio for 

Broadcast in Persian. 

Enquiries in respect of the Status 

and activities of M/s Gubbay 

Brothers Company Cairo. 

Progs., Nos. 18(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(21)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(72)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Proposed evacuation of the 

Women and Children of all Progs., Nos. 

Europian British Subjects in North 1941(Secret) 

Banno. 

35(5)-W, 

WAR 1941 



WAR 

1378 

1379 

1380 

1381 

1382 

1383 

1384 

1385 

Supply of fresh Flax seeds by New 

Zealand to the Supply 

Department, Government of 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 

1941(Secret) 

22(3)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Infliction of more drastic 

punishment on persons found 

guilty of contravention of rules 6, 

7 & 8 of the Defence of India 

Rules. 

Grant of concessions under postal 

and telegraph censorship to the 

consul General for Greece at 

Calcutta. 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 10(66)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Navicut and export licensing 

system. Introduction of ship 

Navicut`s & Goods Navicut 

system in Goa. Arrangements for 

the Issue of the goods & ship 

Navicut by the British Indian 

Customs officials Pondicherry in 

View of the Customs Union with 

French India. Treatment in Iraq of 

goods in transit through that 

country. 

Progs., Nos. 

1941Secret 

13(6)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Import Trade control. Action in 

the respect of the areas murder 

the External affairs Department , 

Supply of copies of C.W. 

notifications to Pondichery. 

Export Trade Control-Wheat and 

Wheat-Flour. 

Export Trade Control-Renewal of 

exception (a) to commerce deptt. 

notification No. 91-C.W. (b) -41b 

dated the June 1941 to an open 

General Licence making wireless 

equipment ann exception thereto 

to control their import into the 

Portuguese possessions in India. 

Transit trade to Afghanistan- 

Release of certain machinery by 

Messrs. Johnsons. 

Progs., Nos. 16(I)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 15(118)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(63)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(81)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1386 

1387 

1388 

1389 

Propaganad material. Printed 

leaflets and other literative issued Progs., Nos. 92-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

by D.G.I. and P.I.O> 

Freezing of assests--Control over 

the financing of trade with Japan, 

China etc. 

Censorship Interception-Thailand 

& Thais. 

Conveyance of private letters in 

official consular packets 

addressed to the consul-general 

for Netherlands in Simla by the 

Dutch Legation at Teheran. 

Progs., Nos. 69-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(20)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(33)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

1390 Issue to Scholar. Progs., Nos. 92-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

1391 

1392 

1393 

1394 

1395 

National Defence Council- 

Formation, constitution and 

personnel of the------ 

1.War Trade List No.7 advice 

notes. M.E. W.G. List No4 and 

Supplements. 2. Destruction 

certificate in respect of war Trade 

List Mr. 6 and advice with 

thereto, and M.E.W.G. List No. 3 

and its suppliments. 3. 

Disantimance of Supply of war 

Trade Lists etc. to P.O. Sikkim. 

Progs., Nos. 21(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 17(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Enemy trading-- Question of 

payment of money due Messrs. 

M.A. Hamim, Kabul, to Messrs. 

Temmber Berni-Johhanithat Progs., Nos. 18(26)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Decision that Messrs. M.A. Hakim 1941 (Secret) 

may pay the with a National Bank 

it failure to do so involves there in 

legal action. 

Investing of High Courts and 

Chief Court Sind with Prize 

Jurisdiction in respect of Finland, 

Hungary, Rumania, Japan, 

Bulgaria and Thailand. 

The War Injuries Ordinance 1941 

the War Injuries Scheme 1942 

and the war injuries regulations 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 37(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1396 

1397 

1398 

1399 

1400 

1401 

1942. 

Enemy Trading - Parcels for 

Germany for the Afghan Govt. 

detained at Peshawar--- release 

of---. 

Progs., Nos. 18(51)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Imposing and lifting of ban by the 

Miluitary of war Trasnport on the 

employment of Messrs. Lionel 

Edwards, Ltd. in connection with 

British Shipping of vessels under 

British Control. 2. The Firms 

representation in that connection. 

Progs., Nos. 18(42)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

Imposition of censorship by the 

Japanese authorities in Japan, 

China & Indo-China. (2) 

Restrictions imposed by Japanese 

& U.S.A. Governments on 

telegraphic traffic. 

Enemy Trading- Enquries 

regarding messrs. Thailbuku Co. 

Osaksa. 

Position in regard to the Arrest of 

Foreigners on board a neutral 

Ship in a British Port. 

Alleged Enemy Trading- Letter 

Addressed by A.K. Harnai, 

Bombay to Ramzan Azizullah Off. 

Meshed. 

Progs., Nos. 10(37)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(65)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(22)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(79)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Arrangement of the inclusion of 

the mails of the British Overseas 

Airways Corporation in the 

Progs., Nos. 10(21)-W, 

1402 packets sent by the Extend Affairs 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Department to H.M`s Minister, 

Bangkok & H.M`s Embassy, 

Baghdad. 

1403 

1404 

Evacuation of Japanese from 

India-Restrictions in respect of 

the Amount allowed to be taken 

out by the evacuees. 

Progs., Nos. 35(40)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

(1) Complaint received from the 


Iraq Legation in Kabul and from 

WAR 1941 


the Government of Iraq regarding 



WAR 

the detention and censorship of 

mails for the former, by the 

censorship authorities at Karachi. 

(2) Issue of instructions to censor 

authorities in India to pass 

without censorship any official 

mails for Iraqi Legation, Kabul.--- 

------- 

Enemy Trading-- Darien Branch of 

Progs., Nos. 18(45)-W, 

1405 Asans Bussan and Company-- 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Activities of. 

1406 

1407 

1408 

1409 

1410 

1411 

1. Preparation for eventuality of 

war with Romania, Hungary, 

Bulgaria and Sinland etc.- Action 

to be taken in regard to 

Censorship, treatment of enemy 

nationals, Consular officers etc. 2. 

Withdrawal of concessions 

granted under the telegraphic & 

postal censorship to the Hony. 

Consul for Roumania at Bombay. 

Afghan Trade-Activities of J. K. 

Dastur- Purchase of opium by the 

Government of Indo-China from 

Afghanistan. 2. Treatment of the 

telegrams to a from the french 

Consular officers in India (M. 

Didot & M. Vanura). 

Regarding relaxation of 

restrictions preventing Klaus 

Meyer from obtaining 

employment in the Bombay Govt. 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 57-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 29(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

(3) Decision that censorship 

authorities should not protect 

damaged diplomatic letters but 

should hand over such covers to 


WAR 


1941 

Postal authorities to the protected 

by them. 

Report of the Defence of India Act 

and Rules-requirements of the 

External Affairs Department. 

Enemy Trading--- 

Correspondence between H.G. 

Progs., Nos. 19(15)-W, 

1941 

WAR 1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1412 

1413 

1414 

1415 

Rath and Co. Shanghai and 

Messrs. Jean hashani and Son, 

Beisut. 

Shipping intelligence-Request to 

the Consulate General at 

Portuguese at Bombay not to 

mention sailing dates in the 

enclain telegrams to Portugal. 

Representation of British and 

British Indian interests in enemy 

and enemy occupied territories in 

Europe and the Far East. 

3. Question of Employment of 

Italian Prisoners of war at Basra 

and Persian Ports as Skilled 

technicians in Wor Shops . 4. 

Question of Employment of 

P.O.W. Labours on 

communications with Burma and 

China. 

Supply of Bi-Weely Guidance 

Notes on the War Situation from 

the Principal Information Officer. 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 30(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 76-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Reciprocal agreement between 

H.M.G. and the Italian Govt. 

faciliting the travel of the 

diplomatic or consular agents 

Progs., Nos. 

1416 their staff and their families 

1941Secret(A) 

proceedings either to their foreign 

offices or to their posts abroad 

provided that such persons do not 

traverse territory of the Other..... 

7-W, 

WAR 1941 

1417 

1418 

1419 

Vesting in the Custodian of 

Enemy Property the Share of 

W.A.G. Herman in the estate of 

Mrs. E. Hermann nee King. 


personnel discharged or 

dismissed from the Indian Army 

War Trade Lists. Suggestion for 

Placing an Statutary List(i) Dr. 

Lux Gilelhammer, German trade 


WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1420 

1421 

1422 

1423 

1424 

1425 

1426 

agent in Afghanistan and 2. Rulf 

Failand , representitive of F. 

Undutr and Company Breemes. 

Question of the enlistment of 

Guido Weinreb and Wlodzimerz 

Regirer two polish nationals in the 

Royal Air Force Volunteer 

Resever. Verification of their 

Character and antecedents from 

the Polish Consul General 

Bombay. 

Enemy trading-- Transhipment of 

goods, by the Internatioal 

Harvester export Company, 

Chicago, from S.S. Reichenfels, 

and forwarde by S.S. Volki to 

Messrs. Ahmad Fakhroo 2. Bros. 

of Bahrein Islands. Arabia. 

(3) Question of M.Hirata talking 

with him save photographs to 

Japan, said to have already been 

submitted for consorship. 

German Intenees from Nath 

Sumatra . Taing over charge by 

the Government of India. 

Question of the Nationality and 

release of Caldana Oreste in 

Cossiea and interned at 

Ahmednagar. 

Release of a telegram addressed 

to the Greek Consul Bombay by 

Simoponlos Greek Minister in 

London In other than the English 

a French Language. Question of 

the grant of privileges under 

telegraph and postal censorship 

to the Greek Consul General at 

Calcutta & the Greek consul at 

Bombay. 

Complaint from H.B.M`s Consul 

for Kerman in respect of his 

telegram No. 223 delayed on 

Censor Bombay. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(38)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 30(32)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 10(53)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

Arrangement for direct supply of 

extracts from the Belgaum Censor 

Progs., Nos. 39(78)-W, 

1427 Station`s Information Summaries 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

to H. B. M`s Consul in the 

Portuguese Possessions in India. 

1428 

1429 

1430 

1431 

1432 

Collection between 

S.S.``Jalaveera`` belonging to 

the Scindia Steam Navigation Co. 

Ltd., (now under requisition to 

Government) & S.S.``British 

Unity`` while leaving Alexandria 

(2) Enquiries as to damages with 

a views to receiving the cost 

thereof from the owners of the 

S.S. ``British Unity.`` 

Progs., Nos. 12(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Currency Control-Surrender of the 

Bank of England notes belonging 

to Mr. Jan Wereeki a Polish 

Courier now under detention at 

Panchgani to the Reserve Bank of 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 25(20)-W, 

WAR 

1941 

1941 

Contraband in the Persian Gulf-- 

Certificate of Origin & Interet in 

respect of dates from Minals & 

Muscat and Navicut for dhows 

sailing therefrom. 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Repatriation of French (Vichy) 

Consular Officers from India. 

Question to permitting the 

m.Vanura French Consul at 

Bombay to proceed to Canada 

and obtain work there. adherence 

of M.Varuna to the fighting 

French Cause 

Progs., Nos. 

1941 Secret 

7(7)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Enquiry by the Polish Consul 

General Bombay regarding the 

detention in Karachi by the Local 

police authorities of Mr. Jan 

Groedel a Polish Citizen and a 

Companion of Mr. Jan B.Werecki 

a Polish Courier wanted by the 

Mideast authorities in Mideast 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

1433 A note on the Balkans by and a Progs., Nos. 6(3)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

Military Intelligene report on 1941Secret 

Karlo Soneer a Yugoslav National. 

Control of Foreigners. Instructions 

Progs., Nos. 30(24)-W, 

1434 regarding Potential enemy 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Foreigners. 


1436 

1437 

1438 

1439 

1440 

1441 

1442 

1443 

1444 

1445 


Correspondence with Greece. 

Censorship Interceptions- Tibet- 

Re. 

Export Restrictions. Netherlands 

East Indies Cocoanut oil for Iran. 

Censorship Interceptions- Alleged 

pro-Nazi activities of the General 

Consul, Calcutta, by Consul, 

Calcutta, by Constantinos 

Adriaros. 

Restrictions on the publication or 

broadcasting of Meteorological 

information in India as a war 

precautionary measure. Inquiries 

made in French India and 

Portuguese India regarding the 

existence of any meterological 

stations and the presence of, or, 

arrival and departure of 

meteorologists in and from these 

places. 

Grant-in-aid to Indian States 

maintaining Indian States forces 

Provision of Funds during 1941- 

42 for Expenditure connected 

with Persian Broadcasts from 

Delhi. 

Censaship Interception- 

Smuggling of tea from India. 

Miss L.M.Rasenbland ---a pro- 

Nazi Swedish National --- 

Deputation of from India. 

Danish Volunteers Bandar Abbas- 

-Incidence of expenditure 

Progs., Nos. 18(88)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(43)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(57)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 39(82)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941confidential 

Progs., Nos. 90-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 15(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 26(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1446 

1447 

1448 

1449 

incurred on--by H.M. Consul 

Kerman and by Danish Consul at 

Bombay. 

Enquiry from the Indian Red 

Cross Society regarding the 

whereabouts of the Greets 

Government. 

Enemy Trading intercepted letter 

from Society de prospection 

electrique, clairac (French), to 

Monsisur Aghabaloff, Tehran. 

Censorship Interceptions- Moter 

vehicles and parts thereof for 

Afghanistan. 

War Risks Insurance Ordinance 

1940 Action in regard to tribal 

areas in the North West Frontier 

Province Question of application 

of above to Agencies Vi. 2 

Malkand, Khyber, and Kurram 

etc. 

Progs., Nos. 59(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(81)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Foreign Broadcast which have 

been translated into Persian and Progs., Nos. 

1450 

Push to and Broadcast by all India 1941(Secret) 

Radio. 

70-W, 

WAR 1941 

1451 

1452 

Report regarding Departion from 

Tehran for quetta & Burma of 

Delnce of the Associated Press of 

America. 

War supplies--Quinine--varities 

of--obtainable from Java-enquiries 

made from H.B.M`s 

Consul General, Batavia. 

Progs., Nos. 29(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 22(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Enemy trading-- Transportation of 

Progs., Nos. 18(33)-W, 

1453 goods, of enemy origin through 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Iran. 

1454 

1455 

Enquiries regarding the indentity 

of M/s Sanyo Trading, Co., Ltd. 

Osaka Japan. 

Proposed remittance of certain 

sums of money by the Honghong 

and Shanghai Banking 

Progs., Nos. 18(52)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(35)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1456 

1457 

1458 

1459 

1460 

1461 

1462 

corporation, to Thov Ibson of the 

Danish Asiatic Co. Shanghai. 

Instructions regarding 

recomendations for the inclusion 

of customs agents in the War 

Tade Lists. 

Progs., Nos. 17(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Prize proceedings S.S. Fred Greek 

Ship--Enquriy into the 

Progs., Nos. 

constitution personnel & functions 

1941Secret 

of Contraband Control Committee 

Aden. 

13(5)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Enemy Trading- Enquiry into the 

identity of the firms of M/s Okaya 

and Co. Tokyo. 

Censorship Interceptions- Reports 

calculated to bring `` scan 

conditions`` into Indian markets. 

Censorship of correspondence to 

and from the prisoners of war and 

internees. Recruitment of 

examiners for the Purpose. 

Withdrawal of facilities given to 

internees to send certain 

censored letters through the 

representatives of the Protecting 

powers to Addresses outside 

India. 


regarding Yuasa Trading Co. Ltd. 

Kobe. Japan. 


with the War-Lists of volunteers 

etc. 

Progs., Nos. 18(86)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(64)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(69)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Contraband Control in 

introduction of a System of 

Progs., Nos. 

1463 Certificates of Origin & Interest in 

1941Secret 

respect of neutral Countries in the 

Far East 

13(8)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1464 Export Trade Control-Wool- 

1465 


Afghanistan. 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(40)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1466 

1467 

1468 

1469 

1470 

1471 

1472 

1473 

1474 

1475 

1476 

Currency Control-Sale of Bank of 

England notes to the reserve 

Bank within specified periods- 

Notifications in respect of -- 

Proposed arest of Joseph 

Buchegger,a Zech national, 

Suspected of espion age for 

Italias in his arrival in India. 

Progs., Nos. 25(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 30(28)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Repatriation from India of Miss. 

Mary Adams an American subject 

Progs., Nos. 29(22)-W, 

of Roumania parentage suspected 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

of being in contact with enemy 

nationals --question of the -- 

Arrangements for the medical 

examination and allotment of 

passages to certain Czechoslovak 

for the Czechoslovakia Forces in 

the Middle East. 

Information Summaries received 

from Chief Censor during 

1941(Nos. 48-72) 

Censorship of correspondence 

containing reference to Jail 

Administration in India. 

Import trade Control Notfications 

etc. 

Enquiries whether Messrs. Towa 

and Co. Ltd. Nagoya (Japan ) are 

a branch of the Kobe firm of the 

same name which has been 

declared to be an enemy. 

Progs., Nos. 66-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 2-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(57)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 16(II)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 18(28)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

3. Request from the Netherlands 

Consul General at Calcutta for 

Particulars of certain Czech 

nationals in Afghanistan in 


WAR 

1941 (Secret) (B) 

1941 

connection with their employment 

in the Netherlands East Indies. 

Proceeding`s of the Fourth 

Meeting of the Export Advisory 

Council. 

Declaration of Thailand and Indo- 

China as prohibited territories for 

Progs., Nos. 71-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1477 

the purposes of the Indian 

Aircraft Rules, 1937. 2. 

Amendments to the Air 

Restrictions notification issued by 

the Communications Department. 

Complaint from H.M.`s 

Ambassador Tokyo regarding 

treatment at Calcutta of non 

Indian evacuees from Japan. 

Progs., Nos. 35(33)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Prohibition under the Defence of 

India Rules on the possession of 

Progs., Nos. 

1478 cameras & taking of photograph 

1941(Secret) 

etc.,within the territorial waters of 


19(8)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1479 

1480 

1481 

Import Trade control- Re export 

from U.S.A. to abadullah Subject 

Bombay of Woolen Yarn & Suge , 

etc. consigned from Nissho coy. 

Ltd. , Osaka. 

Progs., Nos. 16(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Censorship Interceptions- Copies 

of intercepts forwards to the 

Progs., Nos. 39(80)-W, 

Agent General for India in the 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

U.S.A., at the request of the Chief 

Censor. 

Censorship Interceptions- Thai- 

Japanese relations. 

Progs., Nos. 39(39)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Request from the Afghan Govt. to 

censor letters emanating from the 

Afghan Trade Agency, Chaman, 

may be examined at Chaman Post 

Progs., Nos. 10(36)-W, 

1482 Office instead of at the Censor 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Station Quetta to avoid delay in 

the transmission of urgent letters 

from the Agency to the Afghan 

Government. 

1483 

(1) Security measures against 

Japanese propaganda etc. (2) 

Withdrawal of privileges accorded 

to the Japanese Consular Officers Progs., Nos. 10(64)-W, 

WAR 1941 

& Japanese Resident Military 1941(Secret)(A) 

Officer under Postal & Telegraphic 

censorship. (3) Restrictions in the 

use of code, cypher, on the 



WAR 

1484 

1485 

1486 

1487 

1488 

1489 

1490 

Japanese language in inland 

telegrams emanating from 

Japanese------ 


Afghansitan-Motor Vehicles & 

parts thereof. Question of the 

fixation of queta in respect of 

export of tyres & tubes to 

Afghanistan dropped. 

Progs., Nos. 15(92)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Currency Control-Question of 

Transfer of British 

Correspondence Bank Accounts in Progs., Nos. 25(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

India to Accounts in India of 1941 Secret 

residents in Free Sterling 

Countries. 

Detention of, & subsequent 

withdrawal of restrictions imposed 

on, Mr. Desider Akselrad a 

Jewish-Yugoslav national from 

Progs., Nos. 29(20)-W, 

WAR 

1941 Secret 

1941 

Turkey, and wife, travelling to the 

U.S.A. via India. 

Supply of woolen materials and 

garments to the civil departments Progs., Nos. 

and authorities by the 

1941(Secret) 

Government of India. 

22(2)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Currency restrictions -Bank of 

England Notes-Import into British 

India -Certificate by Customs 

officers. 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Enemy Trading-- Blacklistment of 

Elasbas Percira and Sons, Banco 

Nacional Ultramarino and Robert 

Koch of Goa. 2. Proposal in 

respect of Banco Nacinal 

Ultramarino dropped 3. Granting 

of speical dispensation to the 

Progs., Nos. 18(11)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

Bumah shall co. and M/s standard 

oil Cos. in respect of Trade with 

M/s Pereiva and sons. 

Report about in Activities of M/s 

Establishment Textiles de 

Modeliarpeth, Pondicherry. 

Progs., Nos. 18(61)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1491 

1492 

1493 

1494 

1495 

1496 

1497 

1498 

1499 

Enquirer into nay passable 

connections, of Matsumoto 

Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha, No. 7 

Torigoe 2 Chome, Asaknsaken 

Central with Matsumoto and Co., 

Ltd. Osaka, an branches of which 

in Japan o U.K. Stationery list. 

Recruitment of ersian Translators 

and Announcers for all India 

Radio, Delhi. Grant of an 

Hanararium to M/s Abdul Qadir 

and Tajadad from the EA. Dept. 

Secret Service Grant. 

Complaint by the Iranian Consul 

Genl regarding detention by 

censors Bombay of his telegrams 

written in the French language 

and addressed to Iranian Minister 

of industry. 

Charge in cable and wireless 

route to Saudi Arabia (2) 

Temporary interruption of the 

Port Sudan-Djeddah cable. 

Progs., Nos. 18(78)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Enquiry regading evacuation 

Progs., Nos. 35(30)-W, 

arrangements in respect of British 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Women & Children in Burma. 

Amendments to U.. Specifed 

Persons Order. 


Japanese Financial affairs. 

Special machinery for carrying on 

the adminsitration in the event of 

hostile action within India--- 

Authorizing the Baluchistan 

Administration to publish its own 

Gazette in the event of 

Baluchistan becoming isolated 

War Supplies--question of the full 

utilization of the existing capacity 

of a large range of industries in 

Palestine. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

1500 control of Foreigners. Policy Progs., Nos. 30(20)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1501 

1502 

1503 

regarding the Eligibility of Jewish 

refugees to remain at Liberty. 2. 

Policy regarding the Employment 

of and trading by enemy Subject 

interned , restricted to Parole 

Center or at Liberty and the 

Disposal of their Property. 

1941(Secret) 


Documents found in possession of 

a K.L.M. Passenger, Mr. T. C. Van Progs., Nos. 39(67)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Nuys, Representative of 

1941 (Secret) 

Insrandtsen Stemship Company, 

New York. Re. Iran & Iraq. 

Prohibition on the carrying of 

belchas by members of the 

Anjuman-i-Khaksaran. (2) 

Removal of the ban on the 

Khaksars. 

Preparation for eventualily of war 

with Roumania Hungary finland. 

Detention of Shipping etc. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 54-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

(Secret) 


between welfare and Co. Lts., 

Budapest and Hongkong 

Progs., Nos. 18-W, 1941 

1504 Commercial Co., Hongkong. 

WAR 1941 

(Secret) 

Suggestion to include the name of 

M/s Klein and Kranz in the Black 

List. 

1505 

1506 

Request of the North West 

Frontier Province Government for 

the issue of a general order under 

Rule 129(1) of the Defence of 

India Rules empowering certain 

officers to execrise the power of 

arrest without warrant in the 

performance of their functions 

relating to the Tribal Areas. (2). 

Question whether................ 

Progs., Nos. 19(17)-W, 

WAR 

1941(A) 

1941 

Censorship Intercept of a letter 

from Brazil Consul, Calcutta to 

the Spanish Consul at Bombay 

regarding Italian Interests. 

Progs., Nos. 59(28)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

1507 Ali Raid Precantion. Progs., Nos. 42-W, 1941 WAR 1941 



WAR 

1508 

1509 

1510 

1511 

1512 

1513 

1514 

1515 

1516 

Amendments to the Registration 

of foreigners 1939 and the 


Restrictions imposed upon the 

presence of foreigners in the 

North Western area of India 

(N.W.F.P. and certain portions of 

Punjab.) 

Supply of Newspapers and 

Propaganda National to British 

Minister at Sofia & Tehran and 

Material to Brisish Minister at 

Sofia (Bulgaria ) by air mail 

through British ambassador , 

Bhogal. 

Evacuation of British & Japanese 

Subjects ona reciprocal Basis and 

Maers connected thereto. 

Enquiries made from Baluchistan 

regarding power boats (launches) 

required for training purposes for 

combined operations. 

Censorship intercepts relating to 

Jap. Consular officials in India, 

Japanese---their treatment etc. 

Internees in Shanghai etc. 

Enemy Trading Proposed 

prosecution of Mr. A.G. Mitchell 

under the Defense of India Rules. 

Defence of India Rules- 

Notification`s etc.- Application of 

military law to the personnel 

attached to His Majesty`s Forces. 

Reception in madagascar of free 

French Broadcasts from Kirkee. 

Enquiry from H.M.G. as to 

whether the British Authorities in 

Madagascar hold any Cyphers or 

Codes. 

Adoption of a new Indian 

Standard Time during the War. 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(47)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(27)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 19(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

1517 Delegation of powers under rule Progs., Nos. 19(3)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1518 

1519 

1520 

69 of the Defence of India Rules, 

to the Naval Officer-in-Charge at 

the ports of Madras, Bombay, 

Calcutta, Cochin & Karachi and 

the Deputy Administrative Officer 

& Traffic Manager, Vizagapatam, 

and the Nautical Surveyor, 

Chittagong. 

Employment of Wilhelmornstein, 

Polish Mechanical engineer from 

Turkey. 

Recomendation of Block Listing of 

Certain Japanese Firms. 

Suggestions from B.L. abul for 

the Use appropriate Afghan 

Synonyms after technical Indian 

Words Used in Photo Boardcasts 

from Delhi which cannot be 

understood in Afghanistan. 

Decision that Matters of relating 

to Broadcass may be refused to 

Mr. Bokhari and Those Pertaining 

to the News Editions Side to the 

News Editor AIR (Mr. Charls 

Bames). 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 17(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 99-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Enquiries regarding a letter found 

Progs., Nos. 59(44)-W, 

1521 in a Cruiser tank(American) at the 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Fighting vehicles school. 

1522 

1523 

1524 

1525 

Release of the rested balances in 

India, of the Singapo Branch of 

the Begam De `L Indochina. 

Export Trade Control-Afghansitan. 

-Export licence for goods to be 

exported by Rustamji A.Dubash 

Bombay. 

Export Trade Control-Pig Bristles 

for the United States of America. 

Press Control--Press Notices 

drawing attention to editors to 

certain press notices contained in 

the Press Instructions for War. 

Amendments of Press Notices 

Progs., Nos. 18(75)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(88)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(135)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1526 

1527 

1528 

1529 

1530 

1531 

1532 

contained in the Press 

Instructions for War. 

Grant of Permission to Fran Balk , 

Wif ofa German Engineer in Kabul Progs., Nos. 30(29)-W, 

WAR 1941 

to Procedure to Berlin via India 1941(Secret) 

for Medical treatment. 


Correspondence between Bishop 

anselmo and Father Parodi Ports 

of Portugal. Interogation of Rev. 

J. B. Anselmo of the R. C. 

Mission, Dinajpur. 

Interpretation of Word Delute and 

Luhe Occuring in a 

communication relating to the 

inclusion ofa name in the 

statutery list of enemy Travelling. 

Progs., Nos. 39(79)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 17(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Deputation of Stanislaw 

Szwarztja, Suspected German 

agent of Polish Nationality, from Progs., Nos. 30(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Basra for Bombay. Instructions re 1941(Secret) 

hs anest & Detention Pending 

result of interrogation. 

Enemy Trading Delay from China 

via Siberian Railway and 

possibility of alternative routing 

via Persian Gulf. 2. Black-listing 

of firms etc. P. Dubler and Cie 

Wohlen, Switzerland, and Ningpo 

Export Co., Sanghai. 

Intercepted correspondence of 

arnold Portmann, Suitzerland, 

offering his Services to Bhutan, 

Nepal. Saudi Arabia & Iraq 

Governments as officer- 

Instruction in their respective 

armies. 

Copies of telegrams on Supply 

matters & passages for persons 

whose services are required in 

Connection with the expansion of 

industry in India, received under 

Distribution through the Defence 

Progs., Nos. 18(21)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(86)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1533 

1534 

1535 

1536 

1537 

1538 

1539 

1540 

1541 

& Supply Departments. 

Enemy Trading- Businers 

activities of the Iraq and Syrian 

Branch of the firms of I.J. Saad 

and fils. 

Enemy Trading Enquries 

regarding the fims of Yuasa and 

Co. Ltd., Osaka. 

Ships & Shippings- U.S.A. 

merchant vessels- Observance of 

war-time measures such as 

blackout etc., 

Progs., Nos. 18(53)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(77)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 12(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Request made on behalf of the 

Italian ambassador through 

H.M.`s Consul General Shanghai 

to send the correspondence of the 

Italian prisoners of war in India to Progs., Nos. 

their families in Italy via Siberia 1941 Secret 

as being the quicker route. 

Refusal to Change the existing 

route via.Iraq, Turkey and 


36(8)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Price Control--The Undertakings 

(Changes and Accounts) Order, 

1941. 

Arrangement for the Supply of 

Propaganda Matrial in Persian to 

Kabul by the Military of 

Information Lonon for Disemation 

in Afghan. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Ex-employees of the anglo- 

Iranian Oil Co., Ahwaz. Question 

of the employment of ----in India. Progs., Nos. 

2. Employment of British 1941 (Secret) 

volunteers from abroad in armed 

Forces in India. 

49(3)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Proposals to reconstitute the 

Censor Organization in Iraq on 

lines of Anglo-Egyptian 

Censorship. 

Addition and Alterations to the 

Ships War Trade Lists. 

Progs., Nos. 10(50)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1542 

1543 

1544 

1545 

1546 

1547 

1548 

1549 

1550 

(1) Question of the release and 

treatment of persons detained 

under the Defence of India Rules. 

(2) Proposed establishment of a 

committee to report on the 

justification of detention of 

persons under those Rules. 

Expenditure incurred on the 

repatriation of enemy consular 

officials from India. 

Enquiry from Tehran (Iran) 

regarding the possibility of 

employment of certain Greeks in 

allied war production centre, 

Eritrea. 

Enemy Trading-- Iran Import of 

dyes and Sodium Sulphate for 

Germany. 

Export Trade Control-Imports into 

Saudi Arabia --Control Over--- 

Arrangement to govern the use of 

sterling notes by shippping and 

aricraft. 

Progs., Nos. 19(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(28)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

BEN ACES (alias BEN AMES) 

American Jouunalist of Yugoslav 

Origin---reported recall to 

America from Turkey---Travelling 

Progs., Nos. 29(18)-W, 

via Syria, Iraq & India--- 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Instructions to the provincial & 

Other Important C.I.D.`s to 

subject him to through search etc 

in the event of his arrival in India. 

Preparations for eventuality of 

war with Japan. Action to be 

taken against British Indian 

nationals suspected of projapanese 

activities. 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Act, 1925, applicable in relation of 

members of Indian States Forces 


while service in the conditions 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) (C) 

specified in section 18 of the 

Defence of India Act. 



WAR 

1551 

Employment in India of South 

African Personnel for War 

Services. 

Progs., Nos. 49(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Enemy Trading-- Enquiry 

regarding the status o comptovi 

Progs., Nos. 18(15)-W, 

1552 De Produits Metallurgigues 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Tubulavies Et. Miniers, S.A. Osaka 

(Japan). 

1553 

Enemy Firms- List of Firms in 

Shanghai of Undoubted Japanen 

NAtionality , complied by 

Commercial Consular British 

Embassy , Shanghai. 

1554 War with Japan. 

1555 

1556 

1557 

1558 

1559 

1560 

Censorship Interceptions- m/s 

Volkart Bros. 

Supply to Home Department of 

copies of Order passed by the 

External Affairs Department 


India Rules. 

Supply to Kabul of Propaganda 

Material Propaganda material 

requiered for the Turkish Colony 

in Kabul. 

Enemy Trading-- Permission to 

effect payment in respect of the 

drafts drawn by the Peking 

Branch of the Bank of Indo-China 

on the Comptoir National Bank, 

Bombay. 

Air Raid Precantions. Decision not 

to supply Gilgit and Sikkim with 

AR.P. Legation. 

Sending of Greek refugees to 

India from Egypt. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(29)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(54)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 19(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 18(60)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(III)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 


Ships & Shippings--American 

vessels--requesting masters of-- 

Progs., Nos. 

1561 to retrain from inserting notices in 

1941(Secret) 

local newspapers to avoid 

disclosure of shipping 

12(5)-W, 

WAR 1941 



WAR 

1562 

1563 

1564 

1565 

1566 

1567 

1568 

1569 

1570 

movements. 

Export Trade Control-Export of 

raw linseed Oil from India to the 

Orient Paint and Varnish Co. of 

Shanghai. 

Enemy Trading-- Afghanistan 1. 

Import o fmedicines by the 

National of Kabul from M/s Dr. 

Thilo and Co of Mainz, Germany 

2. Apprehension that an attempt 

is being made to dispose via India 

Afghan skins in which the 

Germans are supposed 

interested. 

Enquiry whether Th. N. 

Calivroussi, Tehran, is identical 

with Callivroussi of Labriz. 

Censahip of mails under the 

operation of the Navicut system 

in the Persian Gulf. 

Enemy Trading- 

Recommendations for the 

inclusion of certain firms in the 

United ingdom War Trade Lists 

etc. 

Withdrawal & subsequent 

restoration of privileges granted 

under the telegraphic & postal 

censorship to Iranian Consular 

Offices. 

Obligations of the above 

agreement conveyed to the Naval 

aurthorities in India for their 

guidance 

Withdrawal of privileges granted 

under the postal and telegraph 

censorship to the Finnish Consul 

at Bombay consequent upon the 

declaration of Finland as an 

enemy territory. 

Freezing of Japanese Assets in 

India Withdrawals by Japanese 

Progs., Nos. 15(30)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 18(37)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(85)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 17(3(III))- 

WAR 1941 

W, 1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(51)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret(C) 

Progs., Nos. 10(39)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1571 

1572 

1573 

1574 

1575 

1576 

1577 

1578 

Consular Officers within their 

Customany limits 2. Withdrawals 

by members of the Japanese 

Legation Kabul from their 

accounts in the Imperial Bank of 

India Peshawar within customany 

limis. 

Censorship Interception-- 

Possibility of the Purchase of 

Uganda Cotton by Spain. 

Shipping Service & travel in 

respect of Refugee Traffic to 

South America. 

Progs., Nos. 39(21)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Issue of identity cards to the 

aircraft crews in order to establish 

Progs., Nos. 56-W, 1941 

their identity to the guards placed 

WAR 1941 

(Secret) 

on aerodromes, Instructions 

regarding. 

Prohibition on taking of 

photographs, etc. in specified 

areas under the Defence of India 

Rules. Restrictions under the 

Defence of India Rules on the 

entry of foreigners into specified 

areas. 

Censorship-alleged stoppage of 

telegrams intended for the 

branches of the Imperial Bank of 

Persia. 

1. War Trade List No-6 and advice 

notes there of M.E. W.G. List No- 

3 and Supplements thereto. 2. 

Destruction certificates in respect 

of W.T. List No. 5 & M.E.W.G. List 

No. 2 etc. 

Potponement of the calling up of 

Mr. Ramse a Norwegian subject in 

the service of the Aluminium 

Corporation of India for military 

Duty. 

Message of goodwill from the 

Prime Minister Nepal on the 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(49)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 17(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


1941 Secret 

WAR 1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1579 

1580 

1581 

1582 

1583 

1584 

1585 

1586 

1587 

1588 

outbreak of war between 

Germany and Yugoslavia to Mr. 

Anthony Eden H.E. the Viceroy 

and H.E. the Commander-in- 

Chief. 


German anti-allied propaganda in 

the middle and far East. 

Security measures taken in 

respect of the employment of 

aliens in India. 

Export Trade Control-Cotton Yarn 

artificial SilkYarn Silk Yarn & Silk 

Waste 

Enemy Trading-Suspect U.S.A. 

Firms Enquiries regarding the 

status etc of the firm of Anglo- 

American Hides Co., 41 Park Row, 

New York. 

Question of permitting the East 

Asiatic Company to have dealings 

with the Netherlands trading 

Society. 

Export Trade Control-Sending of 

Jute from India to Valpariso for 

transhipment to Japan. 


between B.A. Hjorth and Co., 

Stockholm, and N.V. Handel- 

Maatschappij Deli-Atjeh, MEdan, 

Northern Sumatra, N.E.I. 

Transfer to India of the Japanese 

Prisoners of war from Ceylon 

Singapore & Burma. Chinese 

Interpreters. Action under the 

Prisoners of war Convention. 

Progs., Nos. 39(49)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(105)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(57)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(29)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(29)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 36(20)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Grant of concessions to foreign 

Progs., Nos. 8-W, 1941 

consular officer in India under the 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

telegraph censorship. 

Enemy trading-- Credit passed to 

the Italian firm Impresitor, 

Bangkok, by the Chartered Bank 

Progs., Nos. 18(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1589 

1590 

1591 

1592 

1593 

1594 

1595 

1596 

of India, London, through its 

Bangkok Branch. 

Question of Utilizing the service of 

Mr. Jacob Luca, a Roumanian 

National and an industrial expert 

(Sheet rolling expert), in India. 

Progs., Nos. 

1941 (Secret) 

49(9)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Recommendation by H.M.s 

Minister , Tehran for Inclusion in 

G. List of the name of one 

Jamosky, an Iranian engaged in 

Supplying to Germany, goods 

Progs., Nos. 

1941(Secret) 

17(5)-W, 

WAR 1941 

exported from India, Nominally to 

Iran and Greece. 

Policy to hte adopted by the Govt. 

of India in regard to the 

treatment of China under the 

Trading with the Enemy 

Progs., Nos. 18(81)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

Legislation in the event f war with 

Japan. 

Import Trade Control - 

Notifications under Section 19 of 

the Sea customs act, 1878. 

Chinese Dollar Notes. 

Arrangements for the censorship 

of parcels etc., containing 

merchandise, from the U.S.A. to 

certain neutral countries, 

transitting India and covered by 

``Mailcerts`` issued by the 

British Embassy in Washington. 

Muslim League Resolutions on 

Middle East situation Restrictions 

on the publicity of prejudicial 

resolutions in the Indian Press. 

Progs., Nos. 16(21)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(32)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Information regarding the number 

of Indians in Japan who couldnot 

have that country in the 

evacuation ship S.S. Anhui. 

Information regarding number of 

Japanese in India. 

Progs., Nos. 35(26)-W, 

WAR 

1941 Secret 

1941 

Prohibition of the import of the 

Newspaper Itala at of Teheran 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1597 

1598 

1599 

into India. Detention by the Chief 

Censr, India of 2 copies of Itaela 

at , Sent by K.S. Mohd Ayub 

Asian , the Assistant to H.M.s Vice 

consul , ahidan to captain M. 

P.O.C. Tandy Asst. Commissioner 

, Kohat. 

Enemy Trading-- Syed Mustapha 

El Dagustani, Aden, and Mohd. 

Sabri Kabakibo, Basra Trade in 

coffee and Tea. 


regarding the fims of Haji Muhd. 

Ghazantar, Meshed. 

Transmission of Letters and 

Articles to and from Kabul 

addressed to Private persons, 

informers etc. 

Progs., Nos. 18(54)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(76)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

xbDespatch from British 

Ambassador, Madrid----regarding Progs., Nos. 

1600 

affairs in Spain---Reactions to war 1941Secret 

situation etc. 

76-W, 

WAR 1941 

1601 

War risks insurances ordinance 

1940 Question of appointing 

Inspectors under section 10(1) of 

the above for centrally 

administered areas Delhi and 

Ajmere Merwara Appointment of 

Inspector of Sind as Inspector for 

British Baluchistan. 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Detention of Mohamed Bin Barak 

an Arab Agitator in Bombay under Progs., Nos. 29(17)-W, 

1602 

WAR 1941 

rule 26 of the Defence of India 1941 Secret 

Rules. 

1603 

Evacuation of allied commnicates 

in Thail and in the event of its 

occupation by the Japanese. 2. 

Refusal to Admit German & 

Austrian Jews into Inside in view 

of the Genral attitude of the G.I. 

toword refugees of enemy ingui. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

1604 Japanese Consular Party from Progs., Nos. 35(38)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1605 

1606 

1607 

1608 

1609 

1610 

1611 

1612 

1613 

Singapore--Arrival at Colombo 

(Ceylon) without notice. 

Question of the compulsory 

vaccination of convicted prisoners 

and persons detained under the 


Censorship Interceptions-Japan 

and Japanese. 

Reported understanding reached 

between U.S.A. Australia & New 

Zealand regarding the use of 

certain ports of Australia & New 

Zealand as Supply bases & the 

use of Aerodroms of those 

countries. 

Discountinuation of the use of Not 

Opened by Censor stamps. (2) 

Use of Passed by Censor stamps 

on postal packets, whether 

actually opened by Censor 

authorities or not. 


Czechoslovakia & Czeehs. 2. 

Poland & Poler. 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 19(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret Part II 

Progs., Nos. 3-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 10(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(34)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Censorship reports received from 

Jerusalem regarding aliens in Iran 

& Afghanistan, who are either of 

enemy nationality in an 

connected with the enemy firms 

etc. 

Progs., Nos. 39(71)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

Export Trade Control-Jute goods 

for Turkey 

Grant of Permission to M/s 

Edward T. Rolurton & Son, 

Bombay, to collect debts due the 

Their Marseilles Office. 

Enemy Firms-Enquiry made 

regarding in action being taken in 

respect of the Societa 

Commissioner di Esportazione di. 

importazione. 

Progs., Nos. 15(119)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 32(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

1614 Escaped Norwegian Officers & Progs., Nos. 29(11)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1615 

1616 

1617 

1618 

1619 

1620 

1621 

men Supposed stranded in 

Baghdad--Mideast Instructions to 

General Basra to send the party 

to India for onward passage to 

U.K> 

Evacuation of British Subjects 

from Japan-Withdrawal from 

accounts of British subiects in 

Japan. 

4. List of areas in which 

Residence of Enemy Foreigners is 

Prohibited or where their 

Residence is Undesirable. 


regarding the transaction of 

cotton between albert Homsy, 

Cairo and Vassanjee Laju, 

Bombay. 

Price Control---Notification issued 

by Baluchistan administration in 

this respect. (2) Periodical 

Statements of wholesale prices in 

the N.W.F.Province. 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35(21)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 18(55)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 23-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Conscription of poles---Conditions 

under which Poles should be 

allowed to join polish Army. 

Question of assisting captains 

Cumft & Wojewodzki Polish 

officers from Shanghai in 

seacuring onward passages etc to 

middle east Facilities of Mrs. 

Cumft to proceed to Middle East & 

reside in Cairo or thereabout. 

Progs., Nos. 

1941 Secret 

26(2)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Export Trade Control-Afghansitan. 

Transit trade in Afghanistan 

Detention at Karachi of 13 cases 

of medicines intended for the 

Afghan Ministry of Health and 

their subsequent release. 

Securing expeditions onwards 

movements of certain paper mill 

machinery ordered by the Sirpur 

paper mills of the Hyderabad 

Progs., Nos. 15(47)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 



WAR 

1622 

1623 

1624 

1625 

1626 

1627 

1628 

State through Baring & Co. Ltd. 

Bombay from Sweden reported 

lying at Baku. 

Complaint by the Belgian consul 

General at Calcutta requesting 

expangment of certain officers 

remarks embodied in a publicity 

pamphlet issue by the Director 

public information Bengal. 

Departure of Japanese Nationals 

from India-Suspension of the 

grant of exit permits to Japanese 

wishing to leave Inida. 

Recommendation for the inclusion 

of certain firms in the U.. Lists. 


from Japan & Japanese Subjects 

from India . Restrictions in the 

Trading out of personal 

Belonging. Disposal of Belongings 

left behind the evaciees. 

Vichy Government explanation of 

their General attitude to the 

Franco-German negotiations as 

given out to the Minister, Kabul, 

by the French Minister there. 2. 

Information relating to works 

employ in constructing U. Boats, 

tanks & aeroplanes Germany. 

Suspension of postal services 

between India and Madagascar. 

Question of the internment of Dr. 

Daamosd Saleh-el-Husacini 

Brother of Jamal Husacini in 

India-refusal of the Govt. of India 

to accept any member of the 

Husacini family for internment in 

India 

Progs., Nos. 59(26)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35(34)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 29(21)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Enemy Trading- The East Asiatic 

Company, San Messrs. Kian Gwan Progs., Nos. 18(43)-W, 

1629 

WAR 1941 

N.V.H.M. Batavia, jav Sumatra 1941 (Secret) 

handel Maatschappij, Batavia, 



WAR 

1630 

1631 

1632 

1633 

1634 

1635 

1636 

1637 

1638 

Otto Gerdan Co., New York. 

(1) Carriage of private mails of 

the American Consular Officers 

and then staff--permission 

granted for the use of official 

pouch service.(2) Grant of 

permission to the American 

Consul at Karachi to despatch the 

official pouches and to the Consul 

General at Calcutta to handle the 

incoming official pouches at that 

part. ----------- 

Report on the evacuation of 

British Subjects by the S.S. 

Anhui-Issue of an unofficial note 

in respect thereof. 

Censorship Interceptions- Straits 

Settlements-Activities of 

Japanese Propagandists. 

Disposal of Funds of the 

Consulate for France in India. 

Transfer of the private funds of 

M.Didot to the Custodian of 

Enemy property. 

Grant of visa to Rudalph Merida, 

an Estorian Seaman , alleged 

enemy agent , from Basra to 

India & His Subsequent arest & 

interement on arrival in India. 

Air Raid Precautions work in 

Baluchistan. 


Afghanistan-Grant of export 

licence for a 1941 Chevrolet 

Salaon for Russian Exbassy 

Kabul. 

Refusal of the Government of 

India to allow Mr. Alferd Plant, a 

German Jewish refugee in 

Afghanistan to came to India. 

Repatriations of Enemy Subjects 

(including Missionaries ) from 

Progs., Nos. 10(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 35(44)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(53)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 30(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(113)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 30(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1639 

1640 

1641 

1642 

1643 

1644 

1645 

1646 

1647 

India. 

Alleged misuse of consular mail 

bag by U.S.A. authorities. 

Samples of Mica sent to their 

Progs., Nos. 

consular officer at Calcutta by the 

1941(Secret) 

authorities of the United States of 

America through their consular 

mail bag. 

9(3)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Instruction issued by Chief Censor 

regarding the disclosure of 

information acquired through 

censorships. 

Progs., Nos. 39(42)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

Censorship Interceptions- East 

Asialic Company- Opening of 

Subsidiary office in Manila. 

Illegal use of stamp of the British 

Vice-Consulate Khorramshahr, by 

A.A. Khan of the Vice-Consulate. 

Export Trade Control-Export and 

transhipment of goods Consigned 

to Syria , Lebanon East Africa, 

Abyssinia etc. 


from Artiste, Peshawar City, to 

Mr. Zurich, c/o Thomas, Esq. 

Representative of Siemens Co., 

Kabul. Enquires regarding the 

indentity of Mr. Zurich & activites 

of Hen Erich Thomas. 

Censorship Interceptions- Vessels 

& Ships. 

Progs., Nos. 39(51)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(65)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(63)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(35)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

4. Exchange of Messages between 

Italian Prisoners of War and that 

families through the Apostolic 

Delegates. 

Progs., Nos. 30(13)-W, 

WAR 


1941 

Control of wireless transmitting 

and receiving apparatus. 

Electrical Apparatus Wireless 

gtelegraphy apparatus and other 

similar Orders. Enquiry by the 

Progs., Nos. 37(29)-W, 

WAR 


1941 

Political Officer in Sikkim Whether 

it is necessary to obtain a licence 



WAR 

1648 

1649 

1650 

1651 

1652 

1653 

1654 

1655 

for a wireless receiver in Indian 

States and whether the 

Enemy Trading- Enquiry 

regarding the status of Kong King 

Export Co. Ltd. Shanghai. 

The Spanish Consul, Bombay, 

asked by the Spanish Embassy, 

Italy, to negotiate with the 

Government of India to further 

the claim of the heirs of late 

Giuseppina Putato, an Italian 

Governess in the employ of H.H. 

the Maharajah of Jodhpur, to the 

movable property left behind by 

her. Question of examining the 

consular mail bags secretly. 

Complaint from the consul 

general for the Netherlands at 

Calcutta regarding cencorship of 

the covers addressed to him by 

the Department of Economic 

Affairs, Batavia. 

Treatment of the families of 

certain Italian Prisoners of war in 

Occupied (by the British ) enemy 

Territory. 

Censorship Interceptions- Bank of 

Indo-China. 

Export Trade Control-Shipment of 

Controlled goods to Hongkong by 

Japanese vessels. 


Correspondence with Enemy 

Countries. 

Conscription of Netherlands 

subjects in India. General 

authorization given by the British 

Govt. for the issue of visas for the 

U.K. to Dutch Volunteers. Grant 

of passage facilities to 

recommended Dutch volunteers 

for the Netherlands Legion. Move 

Progs., Nos. 18(78)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 36(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(56)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(115)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1656 

1657 

of Netherlands India Forces 

stranded in India and adjacent 

countries etc to Ceylon. 

Export Trade Control-Messrs. 

Schimmel &Co. New York and Mr. 

Oscal Allen Brown of New York. 

Question of the supply of 

information regarding India`s 

War Effort to the American 

Military observers in India. 

Progs., Nos. 15(34)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Enemy Property -Estate of the 

late Mr. P.H. Crete annuity Payble 

to Mrs. G. Geletti (Indian by 

Mariage) under the will of the 

Progs., Nos. 

1658 Decesed. 2.Remittanes from India 

1941(Secret) 

to the Holy Su. of income from 

Trust Fund (P.H. Crele estate) for 

the benifit of Mission in Nutral 

and enemy territory. 

33(4)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1659 

1660 

1661 

1662 

Currency Control-Bank accounts 

of messrs. Grapulin & Mamolo 

two Axis nationals from 

Afghanistan detained at 

Peshawar-Question of transfer of 

these accounts to India-- 

Progs., Nos. 25(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Allegation regarding ill treatment 

of Italian Officer prisoners of war 

in India and Middle East. Proposal 

to appoint Brazil as the protecting Progs., Nos. 

power of the Italian Interests 1941 Sacret 

throughout India. Spanish Consul 

at Bombay. Question of his 

removal ersona non grata. 

36(5)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Control on exports to Afghanistan 

--Complaints from the Afghan 

Govt and the Afghan Consul 

General in India regarding Progs., Nos. 15(36)-W, 

WAR 1941 

detention of goods at Peshawar. - 1941 

--Good covered by Open General 

Licence and those that do not 

require a licence. 

Prize Procedure Enemy Ships 

seized in the Persian Gulf. 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 



WAR 

1663 

1664 

1665 

Enemy Trading- Enquiry into the 

Status of the firm of Taiyo 

Trading Co., Osaka. 

Progs., Nos. 18(80)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Proposed formation of a Central 

Research Board to coordinate the 

different research activities taking 

place under the control of the 

Defence Department and to 

prevent overlapping between 

different forms of military 

research & military & civil 

research organizations. 

Progs., Nos. 21-W, 1941 WAR 1941 


German commercial activities in 

the Far East and Iran. 2. Question 

of placing of the China Straits 

Trading Company on the 

Statutory List. 

1666 Censorship Interceptions- Burma. 

1667 

1668 

1669 

1670 

Export Trade Control-Drugs & 

Medicines Manufactured in this 

Country wholly a partly out of 

imported ingredients. 

Progs., Nos. 39(50)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(36)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Prohibition by the Union Govt. in 

the export of all metals, minerals 

and Ores together with 

manugfacture goods consisting 

wholly a mainly of iron or steel 

Progs., Nos. 15(87)-W, 

WAR 

1941 Secret 

1941 

exception production of certificate 

of essentially & guarantee of nonreexport 

etc. 

Remittances from Prisoners of 

war to Italy-Agreement with 

Italian Govt on reciprocal Basis. 

Procedure of correspondence with 

Crews Passengers of Merchant 

vessels a personnel on board 

warships Transports- Question of 

securing wide publicity of the 

requisit instructions in the 

Portuguese Possessions in India. 

Progs., Nos. 36(21)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1671 

1672 

1673 

1674 

Mr. T.yamashita Vice Consul for 

Japan at Bombay --Request fro 

the grant of an exit permitsubsequently 

withdrawan. 

Transfer to the Japanese 

Consulate General at Rangoon - 

Visa for Burma refused. 


Activities of Anthony Falcao 

Carvalho, Nova Goa. 

Movement orders for the 

despatch of personnel for 

embarkation to an overseas 

distination. 

Question prosecution of Mr. S. 

Fazal Ellahi of Calcutta under the 

Defence of India Rules, for 

trading with the enemy. 

Progs., Nos. 35(28)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(65)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(36)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Opening of Bank accounts in India Progs., Nos. 25(13)-W, 

1675 WAR 1941 

by Foreigners in Afghanistan. 1941 Secret 

Export Trade Control-Enemy firms 

Progs., Nos. 15(11)-W, 

1676 by definition Ore and Chemical 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Corporation New York. 

1677 

1678 

1679 

1680 


between Malchers and Co., 

Shanghai, and George Semper of 

Mesched, Iran. 

War with Finland, Hungary and 

Rommania. 

Copies of relating to 1. German , 

Italian & French Prisoners of War 

from Baghdad , Iran etc. 2. 

Persian Prisoners of war from 

Persia. 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 


and the Afghan Consulate General 

for the subsequent recovery from 

the latter of postage on bags 

weighing more than 4 Ibs. a 

week. (3) Treatment of Nepal as 

an inland country for purposes of 

censorship. Intimation to the 

Consul General for Nepal that his 


WAR 

1941(Confiential)(B) 

1941 



WAR 

1681 

1682 

1683 

1684 

1685 

1686 

1687 

official consular mails to his Govt. 

need not be presented to the 

Chief Censor. 

Censorship Interceptions-1. 

Netherlands & its possession. 

Progs., Nos. 39(26)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Notifications issued by the 

Defence coordination Department 

, under the Defence of Indian Progs., 

Rules , regarding enemy Firms. 2. 1941 

Discontimance of the Supply of 

Such Nitifications to P.O. Sikim. 

Nos. 32(II)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1. War Trade list No4 and advice 

Notes of M.E.W.G. List No-1 and 

Suppliments thereto. 2. 

Destruction certificates in respect 

of W.T. list No3 and advise notes 

thereto. 

Sending of a photograph from an 

internee Camp in India to 

Germany by the Swiss Consul. 

Proposed for taking steps to 

prevent foreign consuls in India 

Accepting unofficially letters or 

photographs from the internees 

when visiting them Propsoed 

Abandoned 

Request from M/s. Shankar Dass 

&co. Kabul, for the release of 

covers alleged to have been 

detained by the Censorship 

authorities. 

Withdrawal and subsequent 

restoration of the concessions 

granted under the Postal and 

Telegraphic censorship to the 

Consulate General for Iraq at 

Bombay. 

Arrangements for the despatch of 

food parcels etc., from India to 

Imperial Prisoners of war in 

Europe. Broadcast talk by Mrs. 

Dorothy Bird regarding the 

activities of the Indian Red Cross 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(40)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 36(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1688 

1689 

1690 

1691 

1692 

1693 

1694 

1695 

1696 

and St. John war Organisation. 

Verification of the Charachi of Mr. 

W. Brand fermerly Employed in 

the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 

Iran, now in Officers Training 

School, Belgaum. 

Use of Air Mail by prisoners of 

War and Civil Internees in 

German and Italian hands. 

Progs., Nos. 59(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Counters put by Air in its Pusian & 

Pushto news bulletians againest 

Progs., Nos. 95-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Propaganda belittling Britains hill 

to Grece. 

Arrangements for passages and 

medical examination of polish 

volunteers to be sent to the 

U.K.to Join the Polish Brigade 

known as Karpacka Brygada in 

the Corpathian Brigade. 

Interument of Raul Pavel 

Stradner a Yugoslav National. 

Withdrawal of privileges granted 

under the telegraphic and postal 

censorship to M.Didot, acting 

Consul General for France at 

Calcutta. (2) Interception of 

Franch Consular bags 

transmitting India except those 

from Hongkong and Singapore. 

Fixation of maximum prices for 

wheat. (2)The Wheat Control 

Order, 1942. (3) The Food-grains 

Control Order, 1942. 

Suspected presence of an Italian 

submarine in the Persian Gulf-- 

Instructions issued to Baluchistan 

Administration to water for 

suspicious stranges entering 

India. 

Enquiries from H.B.M.s 

Ambassada , Toyo regarding the 

Identity of M/s asai Mucautili Co. 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 



WAR 

1697 

1698 

1699 

Ltd. , obe an Enemy Firm. 

Withdrawal of bag & cypher 

privileges from Japanies 

Consulates in Burma. 

Question what Voluntarily 

diverted mails to Indian Posts 

should be censored. Examination 

of mails an board Japanese ships 

calling at Karachi. Question what 

are victory controled W. African 

Colomes for Censor Purposes. 

Question of transmission of a 

letter from H.H.the Princess of 

Berar to her father the ex-Khalifa 

through the U.S.A. state Deptt. 

Progs., Nos. 10(62)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

1. Extent of Japanese interest in 

Indian States . 2. Nominal Rolls of 

Progs., Nos. 30(30)-W, 

1700 Enemy Nationals(Male & Female) 

WAR 1941 


Surrendered for intertainment 

etc. or else left at Liberty. 

1701 

Censorship- Treatment of 

undesirable printed matter from 

overseas. 

Progs., Nos. 39(68)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Copies of telegrams regarding 

military Port Establishment in Iraq Progs., Nos. 59(15)-W, 

1702 

WAR 1941 

received under distribution 1941 (Secret) 

through the Q. M. G`s Branch. 

1703 

1704 

1705 

1706 

Imputs restrictions on- Goa 

lottery ticket & circulars- attempt 

at evasion of restriction imposed 

by the Government of India. 

American Affairs. Regulations 

regarding Belligerent vessels in 

Brazilian Ports. 

The External Affairs Department 

Secretariat War Book. Safe 

Custody certificates for 1941 and 

1942. 

Exemption from censorship of 

official telegrams and postal 

articles emanating from or 

received by the Personal 

Progs., Nos. 16(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(52)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

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1708 

1709 

1710 

1711 

1712 

1713 

Representative of the President of 

the United States of America to 

India (formerly office of the 

Commissioner for the U.S.A. to 

India). 

Enemy Agent in Goa- Activities of 

Robert och & Robert Hepp 

Germans. 


India Rules. 

Shipping Information- Removal of 

the restriction on the 

communication of information 

relating to British & allied 

shipping to firms in French 

Possessions in India. (2) 

Continuation of M. Doureissamy 

Petit-Fils as agents in French 

Establishments to the `Àsiatic 

Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.`` 

Intercepted information that 

Japanese boats Carry Letters 

from Italian ports in Africa & post 

them in Japan for Germany. 

The Defence Co-ordination Deptt. 

File No.307-OR/39 of 1940 

regarding amendments to the 

Defence of India Act, 1939(XXXV 

of 1939) with a view to:- (i). 

providing rule-making power in 

sub-section(2) (v) of section 2 of 

the Act for preventing action 

likely to prejudice His Majesty`s 

relations with Indian States...... 

Question of providing special 

machinery for carrying on the 

administration in the event of 

hostile action within India. 

Progs., Nos. 17(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 19-W, 1941 WAR 1941 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) (A) 

Progs., Nos. 70-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Mr. Pashabhai Patel, Agricaltural 

Engineer, Bombay. 2. Press 

interview given in Los Angels by - Progs., Nos. 34-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

---. 3. Indians attitude to words 

the war as stated by----. 



WAR 

1714 

1715 

1716 

1717 

1718 

Consolidated statement showing 

the delegation of powers made by 

Progs., Nos. 19(16)-W, 

the Central and Provincial 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Governments under the Defence 

of India Rules. 

Internees held in Iraq articular of Progs., Nos. 30(33)-W, 

WAR 1941 

their Nationalities , Sex and Ages. 1941(Secret) 

Attitude of the Press towards the 

Civil Disobedience Movement in 

India-System of Press advice in 

respect of the statements by Mr. 

Gandhi. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Question of the grant of 

permission to the American 

Express Company to use words in 

Progs., Nos. 10(41)-W, 

their plain English telegrams to 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

outside countries, for 

identification and purely 

administrative purposes. 

Question of the employment in 

India of Mr. Alf deSpindler, Swiss 

Engineer until recently employed 

by the Afghan Government. 

Progs., Nos. 49(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Appointment of Col. J.C.Frank as 

Liaison Officer on all matters 

dealing with prisoners war-- 

Decision that Foreign consulates 

in charge enemy interests in India 

Progs., 

1719 should address their enquiries 

1941 

regarding Prisoners of war to the 

Defence Deptt. and enquiries 

relating to Civil Internees to the 

Home Deptt. of India 

respectively. 

Nos. 36(4)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1720 

1721 

Currency Control-American 

Security-Notification in respect of 

-- 

Censorship intercept--- Enquiries 

by a German firm regarding 

Iranian Firms named H. Hachim 

Ipektchi and Freresm, 

Tuchhandel, Tabriz. 

Progs., Nos. 25(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 18(41)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1722 

1723 

Enemy Trading-- Black Listing of 

Progs., Nos. 18(47)-W, 

M/s Thai Nayom Panich, Co., Ltd., 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Bangkok, Thailand. 


Calcutta Information Reportsproposed 

scheme of fawardings 

complete copies of-Cancelled. 

Progs., Nos. 39(45)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Departure of two Bulgarians War 

Lazarott and Kimo aramfilor 

Stamukor from India to Iran by 

the Nokkundi route. question of Progs., Nos. 

1724 

Informing the Regulations Officers 1941(Secret) 

of Frontier Ports in advance of the 

Departure of Foreigners from 

India. 

30(9)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1725 

1726 

Decision to enforce wireless 

silence within certain areas where 

an emergency Occurs. 

Arrangements for the closure of 

the Gilgit and the Portuguese 

India Wireless Station at Nova 

Goa in Case of Emergency. 

Prohibitionon the working of 

wireless apparatus on aircraft 

when left unattended. List of 

Progs., Nos. 

1941Secret 

75-W, 

WAR 1941 

Wireless stations in Indian States. 

Question of the demail of Cypher 

privileges to Franch Legation in 

Persia, (Iran) 

1727 International Situation Reports. 

Progs., Nos. 10(45)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 1-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Recomendation for Inclusion in 

The U.K. Statuatory List by the Progs., Nos. 

1728 

Name of the Firm named Drogaria 1941(Secret) 

Luso Iudiana , Nova Goa. 

17(6)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1729 

(1) Appointment of- (i) U.S. Army 

Observers in India who would at 

the same time be accredited to 

Persia, Iraq and Afghanistan. (ii) 

U.S. Naval Liasion Officers in 

India and Bahrain. (2) Grant of 

censorship concessions to U.S. 

Army Observers in India. (3) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1730 

1731 

1732 

1733 

1734 

1735 

1736 

1737 

1738 

1739 

1740 

Facilities and treatment to be 

accorded to the U.S.A. military 

officers and N.C.Os visiting India. 

Enemy Trading- Enquiry 

regarding the firm Yokohama 

Rubber Company Ltd., Tokyo. 


Transshipment a re-export of 

Egytian & Sudan Cotton to the 

Far East 

Statutory rules & orders-Defence 

(Finance & general) Refulations 

1941 Securities (Restrictions & 

Returns)Order 1941 Acquisition of 

Securities Orders Nos 1and 2 of 

1941. 

Request from Signor Quaroni the 

Italian Minister In Kabul 

(Afghanistan) to send books and 

money to Lt. Quaroni a Prisoner 

of war in India. 

Enemy Trading-- M/s E. Henmann 

and C.F. Hamm. 

Progs., Nos. 18(82)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 37(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Additional items atticting the Near 

& Middle East not included in the 

daily Summary of Foreign 

Broadcasts. 

Progs., Nos. 97-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Attempt by the Netherlands 

Trading Society, Hongkong to 

trade with the enemy. 

Cargoes on Enemy Ships-Cargoes 

and Claims (Informations) Order 

1940-Amendments to- 

Conditions of life in German 

Occupied Countries---Publicity 

material required by N.W.F. 

Province. 

Prize Procedure Seizure of the 

Italian Ship Monte Eiana at Aden. 

Censorship Interceptions- Eti 

Bank`s contract with the enemy. 

2. Qustion of detaining goods 

Progs., Nos. 18(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 37(20)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(84)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1741 

1742 

1743 

1744 

1745 

1746 

1747 

1748 

consigned from Bombay for Eti 

Bank, Ankara, ex `` S. S. 

Barals`` via Iraq. 

Enemy Trading- Activities of 

Sherkat Tazamoni Jalil, 

Progs., Nos. 18(63)-W, 

Nassarzader and Bros., Teheran-- 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Question of the black -listing of 

the firm. 

Question of launching anti 

Japanese press compaign in India 

on the Subject of treatment 

accorded to evacuees in Anhui. 

Appointment by the war office of 

an Inter-Governmental 

Committee on prisoners of war 

matters summary of action 

taken.Report on the 

administration & treatment of the 

Italian Prisoners of war in India. 

Question whether Cypher 

telegrams to in from Dr. Kung 

and Mr.Kung Ching Sung (of the 

Chinese Mission in Lhasa), who 

have been accorded concessions 

under telegraph censorship, 

should be censored in detained. 

Progs., Nos. 35(35)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 36(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Currency Control. Reserve Bank 

of India ordinance 1941 and 

application to British Baluchistna 

Progs., Nos. 25-W, 1941 

and other areas under the Control 

WAR 1941 

Classified 

of the E.A.Deptt. and action in 

respect of the Indian States. 

Repatriation of sterling debts. 

The Motor Spirit Rationing 

Order1941. 


Portuguese India and French 

India. 

Export trade Control Commerce 

Deptt. Notification and 

Amendment thereto Action in 

respect of the areas under the 

Progs., Nos. 37(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 



WAR 

1749 

1750 

1751 

1752 

1753 

1754 

1755 

1756 

1757 

1758 

Charge of the E.A.Department 

and in respect of the Foreign 

Possessions in India. Working of 

the Export Trade Control 

Regulations in respect of 

Diamonds & Precious Stones. 

Actrivities of the Firms of Sin Po 

Batavia (Java) Rubber and 

Teakwood from Thailand for 

Germany. 

Censorship Interceptions- Indians 

in Japan 

Ships Warrants. Detention of 

Japanese Ships S.s. Argun Maru 

and Toba Maru Correspondence 

relating to British Navicut 

System. 

Procedure for presumption of 

death in case of personnel 

reported missing. 

Declaration executed by Messrws. 

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha Taihoku 

before H.M`s Consul Tamsui to 

facilitate grant of export licence 

for gunny bags. 

Addresses of Nazi correspondents 

in Brazil and Chile. 

Currency Control-Freezing of Thai 

Assets. 

Censorship Interceptions- 1. 

Turkey & the Turks. 2. Green & 

Greeks. 

Enemy Trading --- Enquiry 

regarding the trade connections, 

of F.E. Zuellig of Manila with 

Germany. 

Methods of Correspondence with 

Imperial Prisoners of war and 

internees in Europe. Despatch of 

parcels to prisoners of war and 

internees in Europe and troops 

serving overseas. Contributions 

Progs., Nos. 18(64)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(27)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(56)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 10(22)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 25(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 39(31)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(22)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 36-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 



WAR 

1759 

1760 

1761 

1762 

1763 

1764 

1765 

towards the Prinsoners of war Air 

Fund London. Prohibition to send 

useful war material in parcels for 

prisoners of war interned in 

Europe and Western Countries. 

Protection of Aerodromes and 

Landing-grounds. `Àccelerated 

execution of military projects in 

India. Responsibilities for the 

evacuation of civilion labour 

working at places which become 

an area of operation. 

The activities of Brother Alfanso 

Tavera, the Proposed Honorary 

Consul General for Columbia at 

Madras. His Projected visit to 

Tibet. 

Progs., Nos. 52-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 29(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Detention & Subsequent 

permission to export to 

Afghanistan the gold and Bank of 

England notes imported into India 

Progs., Nos. 

by Mr. Nizihi Eirkson a Turkish 

1941 Secret 

Law Professor. Permission grantet 

to Mr. Erkson to take with him 

Turkey Gold while transiting 

India. 

25(5)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Equipment requaired in 

connection with the Possirce air 

Defence Scheme for Miranashah. 

Enquiry into Status of M/s Hira 

Singh Harnam Singh of 

Teheran.(Iran) 

Progs., Nos. 42(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(71)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

War Trade Lists. Indian and Other 

Firms in abul with Japanese 

Progs., Nos. 17(11)-W, 

connections -action to be Taen 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

againest them in the event of war 

with Japan. 

Question of allowing Consular & 

private correspondence to 

Sweden being sent through the 

Swedish ship S.S. ``Vasaland.`` 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

1766 Question of Expediting the Issue Progs., Nos. 35(17)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1767 

1768 

1769 

1770 

1771 

1772 

1773 

1774 

1775 

1776 

of exit Permits to Japanese 

Nationals baring India. 

Request from Okazaki Japanese 

Consul General Calcutta & 

Tsurumi consul Karachi to 

disembark at Rangoon for sight 

seeing enrout to Japan. 

Censorship Interceptions-- 

Certain European States & its 

nationals etc. 

Export Trade Control-Shipment to 

Iraq and Iran. 

Security measures for sea and 

airports. Question of issuing 

instructions for the Security of 

Jiwani Airport. Security of British 

and Indian ships in certain ports 

abroad. 

Request of Sistan Xaviera an 

enemy Subject and teacher at 

Girls High School, Scoten , Bardez 

, Goa for the grant of Permission 

the entire British India in aden to 

Prosecute further Studies at the 

ing Edwards college , Amaravati, 

Subsequently with Drawn. 

Contribution for the Hyderabad 

War Purposes Fund H. E. the 

Viceroy`s war Purposes fund for 

the relief of Indian Subject in 

Damasens. 


from Japan-Reciprocal release of 

Balance. 

Pamphlet entitled the N.S.D.A.P. 

Its Structure & functions in the 

third Reich. 

Censorship--Suspected misuse of 

Swedish Diplomatic & Consular 

bags. 

Contraband Control in the Persian 

Gulf--Certificates of Origin and 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(37)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(22)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(40)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 40(30)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(41)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(55)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 



WAR 

1777 

1778 

1779 

1780 

1781 

1782 

Interest System in Respect of 

goods loaded at Iraqi a Iranian 

Persian Gulf ports. 

A.R.P. Question raised bt H.H. the 

Chancellor of the Chamber of 

Princes , in regard to the 

Affording of technical as Well as 

assistance to Indian States in the 

matter of A.R.P. 

Deputation of Wladimir 

Zesserman a Russian Subject via 

Chitral. 

1. Question of securing 

employment in India for certain 

Czeeh technicians from 

Afghanistan. 2. Question of 

finding employment in India for 

Mr. Yan Legat, a Czechoslovak 

Construction Engineer in 

Afghanistan, Dropped. 

Lituatire on the Most Satisfactory 

Methods of Providing Structural 

Precantions againest an Raid on 

Factories Supposed to have 

recently issued in Chinglaing . 

Requesting H.M. s Amhassada , 

ChungIng , for the Supply of ---. 

Censorship Interceptions-Non- 

Enemy Countries. 

Progs., Nos. 16(30)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 49(20)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret Part III 

grant of concessions under 


telegraph censorship to the Hony. 

WAR 1941 


consul for Norway at Bombay. 


Progs., Nos. 35(25)-W, 

1783 from Japan-Family remittances on 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

reciprocal Basis. 

1784 

Sudanese contribution 

(1,00,000Pounds) towards 

India`s War Effort, as a taken of 

recognition of the the Services 

vendered by India Soldiers for the 

defence of Sudan. 

Progs., Nos. 40(23)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

1785 Export Restrictions. Placing of the Progs., Nos. 15(58)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1786 

1787 

1788 

1789 

1790 

1791 

1792 

1793 

Overseas Merchantile Company 1941 

New York on the respect list 

temporary subsequent permission 

of transaction with the same. 

Censorship Interception-Far East 

Commercial Activities. 


Economic War fare messages. 

Progs., Nos. 39(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(70)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Enemy Trading Detention of 

Correspondence addressed to M/s 

Khosrovschahi, Teheran, in view 

of their apparent Similarity with 

M/s Mohd. Khosrowshahi, 

Teheran, a firm. 

Progs., Nos. 18(59)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

Instructions regarding transit 

mails to and from France, unoccupied 

France & France 

Possessions. 

Censorship Interceptions-- 

Foreign in Afghanistan. 


Portugal & Portuguese- 

Portuguese Possessions outside 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 10(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(55)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


of private letters received in 

diplomatic bags from Baghdad. 

Tehran and Kabul . Decision that 

letters from I.P.S. & B.C.S. 

Officers etc. an not to be 

Censored. Decision that letters 

hearing Baghdad Embassy Stamp 

& Signed by the head of the 

Progs., Nos. 

1941 Secret 

38(4)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Chancery on the second secretary 

be passed the Censored. 

Proposal to Send a Mission to 

tunis and Algeria Headed by 

Mullah Tahir Ud Din , Leader of 

Bohra Committee , Bombay to 

cotrovert False report about 

affairs in India and woe Anti Axis 

feelings among the Muslims 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1794 

1795 

1796 

1797 

1798 

1799 

1800 

1801 

1802 

there. Bohra community. 

Appointment of Monsieur Charles 

Huber a Swiss Natural as a 

delegate of the International Red 

Progs., Nos. 36(14)-W, 

cross Committee Geneva in India 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

for the relief of the Prisoners of 

war. Question of the censorship of 

their correspondence. 


Intercepted cable from Bangkok 

to Trans ocean, Berlin, regarding 

maltreatment of Political 

prisoners in Indis. 

Progs., Nos. 39(74)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Offer of war services by Mr. 

Brovinche a specialist in 

Progs., Nos. 49(12)-W, 

Refrigeration of the Bander Abbas 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

fish factory, and his employment 

as an engineer in the Army. 

Enemy trading-- Shipments of 

Sugar from Dutch East Indies to 

Iran. 

Enquiries regarding the activities 

of Messrs. Maison Hay of Tehran 

(Iran). 

Iron and Steel. Iron and Steel 

(Control and distribution) Order 

1941.Emergency steel Control 

Orders. Iron and Steel (Scrap 

Control) Order 1943. 

Disposal of the Balance of Deposit 

made by the Commercial attachi 

for Indo-China with the Indian 

states Department for Purchase 

of Stores in India. Money 

belonging to Society Descours 

and Caband , Saigon. 

Supply of Press cuttings from 

Indian Newspapers to Kabul & 

Jadda for Propaganda Purposes. 

Compensation to dependents in 

Portuguese Possessions in India 

of Lascars and Seamen Killed by 

Progs., Nos. 18(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(31)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 37(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 96-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 68-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 



WAR 

1803 

1804 

1805 

1806 

1807 

1808 

1809 

enemy action, Decision that the 

Commerce Deptt. will address 

H.M.`s Consul Nova Goa, Direct 

in such Cases. 

Probability of a contingent of the 

Yugoslav Govt. personnel transist 

India on their way to U.S.A. Progs., Nos. 

Canada. Communication from the 1941Secret 

Secretary State regarding the ---- 

- 

6(4)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Complaint from the Japanese 

Consul General regarding delay in 

the transmission of telegrams Progs., Nos. 10(31)-W, 

WAR 1941 

between India & Japan since 28th 1941(Secret) 

July, 1941---Telegrams released 

in the 4th August, 1941. 

1. Amendment to the War Bodle 

(India). 2.Change in the External 

affairs 

Department.Representatives on 

the War Bork (India) Committee. 

Proposed running of an exhibition 

train containing exhibits from 

Indian War factories including 

armoured cars, guns and 

aeroplanes etc. on all broad 

gauge lines in India, under 

arrangements to be made by the 

Director of Public Relations, 

Defence Department. 

Exit permits for Japanese leaving 

India. 

Japanese Evacuation Ship-Hie 

Maru---Shipping Facilities. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(45)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35(43)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Permission given to the Consul 

General at Calcutta the Hony. 

Consul for the Norway at Bombay 

the consul General for Belgium at 

Progs., Nos. 

Calcutta and Bombay to 


Correspondence with their foreing 

ministers in London in the latters 

code addresses viz Norwin and 

Belext London. Permission given 

8(6)-W, 

WAR 1941 



WAR 

1810 

1811 

1812 

1813 

1814 

1815 

1816 

1817 

to the Egyptian Consul at Bombay 

to receive telegrams from his 

Govt. in his code address 3 

a\farane. Grant of.....c 

Censorship Interception-Political 

affairs in Yemen-Reputed 

demolition of tombs of Syedua 

Hatim etc.etc. 

Request from the governor of the 

French Possessions in India to 

transmit mails to France by the 

saigon France route. 

Refusal to the grant of Exist 

Permit to enable alfered 

sommerfield and his wife to 

return to India -Enuiry made by 

Secretary of State for India, 

London regarding. 

Grant of concessions, as a special 

case, to the Polish Consul 

General, Bombay, regarding the 

use of abbreviated telegraph 

addresses in official telegrams 

exchanged by him with the Polish 

Ministry in London and with other 

Polish diplomatic and consular 

officers abroad. 

Censorship Interceptions- Mails- 

General. 

Progs., Nos. 39(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(20)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(30)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Censorship Interceptions 

regarding Japanese diplomatic 


political and Commercial activities 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret Part I 

together with social and economic 

conditions obtaining. 


Activities of M. Setrakian, Bagdad 

(Iraq). 

Procedure in respect of enquiries 

from foreign Common office 

regarding civilian internees of 

enemy Nationality. 

Progs., Nos. 39(88)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(26)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

1818 Definitions of the words Scrutinize Progs., Nos. 10(8)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1819 

1820 

1821 

1822 

1823 

Examine and Censor as used by 

the Censorship authorities. 

The Enemy Property (Custody 

and Registration ) order , 1939. 

Evacuation of Mr. Amarendra 

Nath Banerjee from Japan. 

Question of his employment in 

India Recovery of passage money 

etc. 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(27)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Evacuation of Japanese Consular 

Officers from India . Grant of 

permits to M/s Okazaki, Tsurumi , 

Progs., Nos. 35(18)-W, 

Taabatake , Kudama & Usami to 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

have India for Japan. 2. Recall of 

Exist Permits of M/s Tachi & 

Ishida. 

Censorship Interceptions- Iranian 

commercial ativities-Trade pact 

with Germany. 2. Ratification of 

Iran-Japan treaty of Friendship. 

Japanese Broadcast and 

Propaganda 2. Proposed 

Prohibition to the Use of 

commercial Sets for the Purpose 

of Disseminating Japanese Broad 

Cast. 2. Mounting of Japanese 

Broadcasts to watch anti-British 

Propaganda. 

Progs., Nos. 39(32)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Inclusion of the name of Ed.E. 

Bechted, Inc. New York in the list 

of subject U.S.A. firms Decision 

that the Commerce Dept. should 

Progs., Nos. 18(83)-W, 

1824 address direct the Commerical 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Secy. to H.H.`s embassies abroad 

in all such cases 3. Censorship 

Intercept- M/s Egypt and India 

Trading Co., Cairo. 

1825 

Miscarrage to Hongkong of a 

letter addressed from India to 

Hongkong and its censorship by 

German authorities. (2) Chief 

censor at Hong Kong asked that 

in order to evade German 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

1826 

1827 

1828 

1829 

censorship letters from Hongkong 

to Eastern Europe be routed via 

Egypt. (3) Information supplied 

by the Chief censor of India 

regarding the existence of 

German censorship in Syria. 

Handing over to Herr Paider and 

Herr Schmaderer of the packages 

left by Herr Grob of the Himalaya 

Expedition 1939 with the political 

officer in Sikkim. 

Enemy Trading- Sale of certain 

commodities to Selim Zebouni, 

Baghdad, by M/s N.V. 

International credit of Handles, 

Vereeniging Rotterdam 

Soerabaja, Java. 

Grant of exemption under postal 

censorship in respect of the 

diplomatic pouch carried by 

Mr.W.Bruce Weldon, member of 

the American Legation Cairo. 

Request of the Red Cross 

Commissioner that he should be 

Kept in touch with matters 

concerning British Indian or Allied 

Prisoners of war. 

1830 Export Trade Control-Monazite. 

1831 

1832 

Progs., Nos. 59(43)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(50)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(30)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Question of the release from 

internment of Luciain Family on 

condition that the Members of the 

Progs., Nos. 30(21)-W, 

Family donot enter any Indian 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

State a administered area without 

the contract of the State Govt. on 

the Political authority concerned. 

Map regarding Enemy Trade 

Activities Disclosed from 

intercepted correspondence from 

Singapore Censorship Distributed 

by G.S. Branch, G.H.O. 

Progs., Nos. 18(32)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

1833 Free Danes Movement in India Progs., Nos. 39(73)-W, WAR 1941 



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1834 

1835 

1836 

1837 

1838 

1839 

1840 

1841 

1842 

1843 

Foreign office circular regarding 

the Free Danish Movement. 

Enemy Trading--- Enquiry as to 

any possible connection, between 

certain Japanese firms and the 

statutory liked Nikka Boyeki 

Shokai, of Dairen. 

Question of the repatriation of exconsular 

representatives of 

Roumania Hungary and Finland. 

The U.S.A. Lease/Lend Act. 

Procedure to be followed for 

obtaining supplies under it.Indian 

Purchasing Mission in America. 

Treatment of French Subjects in 

the event of war with France. 

Enemy Trading-Recomendation of 

Joins for blachlisting etc. 

Purposes. 

Restrictions on the grant of bail in 

respect of offences against 

certain rules in the Defence of 

India Rules. 

Shipping Information- 

Instructions issued by the U.S.A. 

Navy Deptt. merchant ships. 

Enemy Property. Enquiry by the 

Czechoslovak Consul, Bombay 

refusing the Gold Bras belonging 

to Mr. Tan Bata & vested in the 

custodian of Enemy Property, 

Bombay. 

Enquiry by the British Legation 

Kabul regarding the Desire of Dr. 

Hons Tank to send pound 51monthly 

his sister Brigetta Turk in 

London. Decision to allow him to 

do so he being proved to be anti 

Nazi. 

Analysis of Foreign Broadcass 

directed to India and Near East. 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(39)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


1941 Secret 

WAR 1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 17(3(II))-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 19(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 25()-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 75-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

1844 Alleged Italian pressure on Progs., Nos. 59(42)-W, WAR 1941 



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1845 

1846 

1847 

1848 

1849 

1850 

1851 

1852 

1853 

Turkish Govt. to allow an 

Auxiliary vessel-through Straits. 


from Iraqi, Karachi, to the 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 

Baghdad, regarding the Situation 

in India after the declaration of 

War by Japan. 

Shipment of ammunition and 

ordinance stores to southern 

Rhodesia. Decision to send them 

via Durban and not through Beira 

to avoid possible seizure owing to 

Portuguese neutrality. 


Frenchmen & French 

Establishments in India. 

Censorship Interceptions- Enemy 

Materials in Goa. 

Assurance given by Poles in India 

Through the Polish Consul 

General Bombay regarding their 

readiness to help the govt. of 

India in its war effort. Opening of 

a Polish Employment exchange in 

London as a symbol of United 

effort of Great Britain &Poland 

Evacuation of foreigners & British 

and British Indian subjects etc. 

from Afghansitan. 

Report on the movements ofa Mr. 

Y.M. Nassim who embarked at 

Bombay for Mombasa, blived to 

be directly Anti British. 

Permitting exports to Bata 

Concerns in Jamaica and Certain 

other neutral Countries other 

than U.S.A. 

Export Trade Control-Prohibition 

of exports to the Baneo di Roma 

and all its branches. 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(87)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(29)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 15(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(27)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

1854 Censorship Interceptions- Indo- Progs., Nos. 39(46)-W, WAR 1941 



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1855 

1856 

1857 

1858 

1859 

1860 

1861 

China & other French Possessions 

outside India. 

Prisoners of war Convention. 

Decision to discharge the 

obligations towards prisoners 

under the Geneva convention 

through H.M.G. and not direct to 

the Protecting power. 

Export Trade Control-Lac to 

Japan. Information from Goa that 

Lac is another produced in 

Portuguese India for Exported 

therefrom. 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 15(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Technicians. 1. Miscellaneous 

telegrams exchanged with 

Hongkong and Shanghai re. 

employment of Friendly alien 

refugees as technicians and 

doctors in India. 2. Question of 

employment of certain 

technicians from Palestine. 3. 

Question of employment of 

Usakiewiez as Assistant Foreman 

Gun and Shell Factory, Cossipore. 

Progs., Nos. 49-W, 1941 

WAR 

(Secret) 

1941 

1.Prisioner of war Internees 

Escape & vecapling of - 2. 

Discontinuance of intertaining 

H.Ms. Consul General Goa re: 

escape etc. in view of Direct 

intimation to Assistant Collector 

of Customs , Casble Rock. 

Delay in censorship of Air-mail 

letters from India to Bahrain. 

Question of the introduction of a 

regular system of internal 

censorship of war news with a 

view to checking alarmist 

rumours regarding threat to India 

arising from Far Eastern War. 

Censorship Interceptions- Saudi 

Arabia. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(61)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(33)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

1862 Suspected escape of Gamotta a Progs., Nos. 35(42)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1863 

1864 

1865 

1866 

1867 

1868 

Japanese national from Tehran & 

question of search of His Maru at 

Rangoon in this connection. 

War Supplies---Zinc Oxide and 

Calcium Carbonate from the 

United States of America 

originally intended for Hongkong- 

-Acceptance of Zinc Oxide 

consignment in India. 

Transmission of private letters 

received from Mrs. J.King Bombay 

and Mr. W.C.Lahore to Teheran 

and Cairo respectively in 

E.A.Deptt. Deplomatic Bags. -refusal 

to accede to their 

requests. 

Concessions granged to Japanese 

Subjects Consular officers and 

Resident Military officers in India. 

Extension of Similar concessions 

on reciprocal basis to Indian 

Trade Commissioner in Japan. 

Effect of freezing of Japanese 

assets in India on insurance 

business of Japanese Companies. 


the administration in Baluchistan 

in the event of hostile within 

India. -----Grant of enhanced 

financial powers to A.G.G. 

Baluchistan. 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 22(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 38(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35(46)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

(1) withdrawal of priveleges 

under Postal and Telegraph 

Censorship from the Honorary 

Consul for the Netherlands at 

Calcutta (Mr. T.Van Aken) (2) 

Carriage of diplomatic mails of 

the Netherlands Government to 

their legation at Chungking by the 

King`s Messanger--decision not 

to interfere with this practice. 

Progs., Nos. 10(44)-W, 

WAR 

1941(Secret) 

1941 

Internment of Max Angelo 

Warden an Iranian subject and 

Progs., Nos. 29(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1869 

1870 

1871 

1872 

1873 

1874 

question of his release from 

internment. 

Offer of services in the Royal Air 

Force by Mr.R.Chandler, British 

subject of Bahrain Petroleum 

Company. 

2. Decision that the amount 

Should be Sent to Mr. W.E. 

ollenbang , an enterance at 

Deolali. 3. Applicability of the 

Defance India Rules to Foreign 

Consular Officers. 


of letters sent by prisoners 

(including security prisoners) to 

addresses outside India. 

(3) Complaint from the governor 

of mekran about censorship of 

covers addressed to him by the 

Iranian consul at Karachi. 

Proposed return of Miss Gertrude 

Lily Swords a German Born 

American Missionary to America 

on account of her pro-Nazi 

sympathies and Activities. 

Censorship Interceptions- Persia 

Gulf. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 29(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 10(34)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(35)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 29-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(58)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Transfer of funds from the United 

Kingdom through banks in neutral Progs., Nos. 

1875 

Countries to Germans in 

1941 Secret 

Afghanistan Herr E.Thomas. 

25(7)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1876 

1877 

1878 

Negotiations between H.M.`s 

Govt. and the German Govt for 

the exchange of civilian internees 

sick and wounded prisoners of 

war. 

Balan refugee s for India. Menial 

Raks of Czcoslava refugees. 

Notifications regarding Enemy 

Firms issued by the commerce 

Department Undr the Defence of 

India Rules. 

Progs., Nos. 36(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 



WAR 

1879 

1880 

1881 

1882 

1883 

1884 

1885 

1886 

1887 

Censership Interception- Export 

of 21,00 tons of cement to Iran. 

Evanation of British Diplomatic 

and consular Staff from Japan in 

the Event of ar with that country. 

Question of their employment in 

India. 

Censorship Organization- Division 

of responsibility for censorship 

between the Director of Military 

Intelligence & the Chief Censor. 

List of Empire allied neutral and 

Enemy Countries. 

The question of employment of 

Polish Volunteer from Japan. 

enemy or enemy occupied 

countries and countries under 

enemy domination. 

Czech Refugee Trust Fund--- 

Scheme to make available pound 

100,000 out of the fund for the 

assistance of Czechoslovakians i 

exile who are a who appear likely 

to be endangered by enemy 

advance. 

India`s War Effort ``-Secret note 

complied by the Defence 

Department with an object of 

giving American Officials the 

background necessary for an 

assessment of India`s claim to 

Lease/Lend facilities --Supply of 

copies to Chungking, Baghdad & 

Cairo. 

Progs., Nos. 18(49)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(56)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(28)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 49(26)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 80-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 21(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Question whether cypher 

privileges enjoyed by the 

Japanese Resident Office, Colonel 

Ichida, alleged to the engaged 

sending and received code 

telegrams on behalf of private 

individuals and firms, be 

withdrawn. (2) Question Dropped. 

Progs., Nos. 10(38)-W, 

WAR 

1941(Secret) 

1941 



WAR 

1888 

1889 

1890 

War Publicity--Central Board of 

Information`s publicity 

Programme Centring on the 

second anniversary of the 

outbreak of war. 

Export Trade Control-Procedure 

to be followed in respect of 

Exports to Greece. 

Export Trade Control-Restriction 

on the export of the Steel from 

India. 


WAR 1941 

1941 Confidnetial 

Progs., Nos. 15(33)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 15(52)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 

Publicity Guidance Telegrams 


1891 received from the Foreign Office & 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

the India Office , London. 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1895 

Arrangements for the despatch of 

messages relating to movements 

of shipping in secure codes. 

Supply of Aluminium Sheets to 

the British Legation, Kabul, for 

the construction of Legation 

Lorries. 

Censorship Interceptions- India & 

Indians. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(41)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Procedure for the despatch of 

official consular mails from Simla. 

(2) Arrangements for the 

despatch, in accordance with the 

Anglo-Afghan Treaty, of 

unstamped bags or packets 

containing official mails of the 

Afghan Consulate General 

weighing upto 4 Ibs. a week 


WAR 

1941(Confiential)(A) 

1941 

arrangement between the Posts & 

Telegraphs Department---- 

(1) Complaint from the Iranian 

Consul General re: the nonfixation 

of Censa stamps on 

inland covers issued by Iranian Progs., Nos. 10(35)-W, 

1896 

WAR 1941 

Consulate, Karachi. (2) Treatment 1941(Secret)(A) 

of mails to Napal as inland for the 

purposes of Censorship. Request 

to the Napalese consul general 



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1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

not to present his mails to his 

Govt. in Nepal at the office of the 

Chief Censor. 

Imposition of Postal censorship in 

Progs., Nos. 10(14)-W, 

the Sawantwadi State--Dodamarg 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

and Aronda. 

Complaint from Tokyo re. Delay 

in grant of exit permits to 

Japanese under evacuation 

arrangements Grant of exit 

permit to Mr. Eizo Kojima 

Manager Mistsubishi Shoji Kaisha 

Calcutta. 

Export Trade Control-Licences for 

shipments to U.S.A by Japanese 

Vessles with transhipment at a 

part in Japan. Shipments of Jute 

to Chile. 

Question of the disposal of Miss. 

Louise Marie Salm an American 

national and suspected to be 

connected with enemy egents. 

Censorship Interception : - Free 

Austrian movement in India. 2. 

Appointment of Dr. Gorlitzer as 

representative of -------. 

North West Frontier and 

Baluchistan reactions to the out 

break of Hostilities between 

Russia & Germany, and the entry 

of British troops in Iran. 

Import of a number of Blue 

Prints, of the rectnical Data and 

Machine tools connected with the 

manufacture of Machine-guns and 

Some Samples of ammunition in 

the Possession of the Party of 

Czechoalovakian arnaments 

Specialist for Work in the Baran 

Gun Factory in India. 

Enemy Trading-- Havero Trading 

Co., Ltd., San Martin, Buenos 

Progs., Nos. 35(36)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(22)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(69)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(23)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 16(17)-W, 

1941(Secret) 

WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 18(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1905 

1906 

1907 

1908 

1909 

1910 

1911 

Aires. 

Evacuation of British Embassy 

Staff from Muscow. 

Decision that telegrams 

exchanged between the Vichy 

Govt. and the Governor of 

French-India should be stopped 

excepting those which relate to 

information of family members of 

residents of French India. 

Instructions regarding the 

censorship of telegrams 

exchanged with certain countries 

contiguous to India and with ----- 

--- 

Telegram from British Minister 

Kabul, embodying Turkish official 

belief in ulternate British victory. 

Enemy Trading- Enquiry in regard 

to the indentity of M/s Riwa Yoke 

Shanghai. 

3. Arrngements for the censaship 

of Japanese mails and Bag by the 

Commandant , Inteligence School 

C , Indian Bureau, Abbotabad. 4. 

Question of the Payment of 

Maintance allie to the Family of 

Dr. Graenbery a Hungarian 

National interned in I\the C.I. 

Camp ., Aden. 

Enemy Trading---Draft from the 

Reichsbank Berlin to Banque 

Millie, Iran, Teheran--- 

Transmission of the Original cover 

with enclosures to Commercial 

Secy. to H.M.`s Legation Teheran 

for disposal 

Progs., Nos. 35(20)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 59(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(70)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(30)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 59(39)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Question whether Legislation on 

the Lines of the war Donations 

and investmetns Act, 1940 should Progs., Nos. 37(27)-W, 

WAR 1941 

be undertaken to authorities 1941 Secret(A) 

statutory bodies under the 

Control of the Govt. of India to 



WAR 

1912 

1913 

1914 

1915 

1916 

1917 

1918 

make a donation out of the 

unspent balances in their hands 

to a public fund ...... 

Conscriptrion of Belgian Nationals 

in India. Exemption from 

mobilization of certain Belgian 

priests and missionaries in India. 

Regulations regarding the 

recruitment of Belgian Seamen 

for the Belgian Army. 

Lighting Restrictions. Imposition 

of -- in French Portuguese 

Possessions in India. 

Arrangements for passage from 

India to Basra for Turkish 

Subjects who arrived from Japan 

en route to Turkey. 

Prosention of M/s B. Wittenberg 

and Baron Von Dincklage, 

German intunees , Fa Criminal 

Breach of Trust. 

Enemy Trading- Enquiries into the 

identily of M/s Sanyo Shokai Ltd. 

Tokyo and Yamatake Co. Ltd. 

Tokyo of the Japanese Firms. 

Use of abbreviated addresses in 

telegrams from the Iraqi Govt to 

the Irai Consul General Bombay. 

Request to the Consul Generals 

for Iraq at Bombay to ask his 

Govt. to conform to the 

requirements in out letter No. D- 

470-C(s) 39 dated the 4thSept. 

1939 

Registration and conscription of 

European British subjects under 

the Registration (Emergency 

powers) Act 1940 and National 

Service Act 1940 respectively. 

Conscription in India of Certain 

employees of Bahrain Petroleum 

Company. Position regarding the 

conscription in India of Dominion 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 30(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(68)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1919 

1920 

1921 

1922 

1923 

1924 

1925 

1926 

nationals and Eire Citizens. 

1. Policy in respenct of the 

employment of qualified Danish 

Civil engineers in War Industries 

in India. 2. Question of the 

employment of Mr. Paul Buhl, a 

Damish Civil Engineer of Ahwaz, 

Iran. 

Progs., Nos. 49(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Declaration of war on Germany & 

Italy & Bulgaria Hungary & 

Roumania U.S.A. Text of the 

Progs., 

1941 

Nos. 3(4)-W, 

WAR 1941 

resolution of the U.S.A. Congress. 

Eventuality of war with Japan. 

Prisoners of war-Question of the 

reception of Japanese internees 

from malaya in India. 

Permission granted by Governor 

Ceylon to Certain transactions 

with a view to make funds 

available to the French Consul 

General at Colombo for the 

maintenance of his Consulate. 

Enemy Property. Amendments to 

the control of Internces Property 

Order, 1939. 

Report from Calcutta about the 

burning out and sinking of the 

Panamnian S.S. Cascade. 


Economic War fare Sceptre 

Messages. 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 25(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 

Progs., Nos. 73-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 39(61)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Intercepted letter from the Jowa 

Bengal Line, Calcutta, to the 

Netherlands Shipping Committee, 

Batavia, containing details of 

armaments on S. S. 

Progs., Nos. 39(85)-W, 

`Àlpherat``, a Dutchship. 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Request to the Consul General for 

the Netherlands at Calcutta to 

take action to cheek consignment 

of such information to the 

ordinary post. 



WAR 

1927 

Correspondence to and from 

persons in enemy and enemy 

occupied Countries.Indian Red 

crossPostal Message service. 

Suspension of the Thomas Cook 

Postal Message Service in respect 

of Occupied France. Procedure to 

Progs., Nos. 

be followed by persons in French 

1941 Secret 

India to send letters to be 

occupied France. Inetercepted 

information of attempted 

communication with occupied 

from through the impremediary of 

messagecies maritimes 

marseilles. 

38(6)-W, 

WAR 1941 

National markings of Aircraft. 


1928 Change in the markings of the 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Aircraft of the Bulgarian Air Force. 

1929 

1930 

1931 

1932 

1933 

1934 

1935 

European Nationals and their 

activities in Teheran.(Iran) 

Ministry of Economic Warfare G. 

List (U.S.A) requirments of the 

above of the Department of the 

Government of India. 

Arrangement for the censorship 

of mails of official & staff of the 

British Legation Kabul. 

Enquiries as to who are the 

protecting powers for Germans 

and Italians in Iraq. 

Censorship Interceptions- Italy 

and the Italians. 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(36)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 39(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Enquiries as to whether there is 

any connection between M/s 

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., 

Kobe, and S. Kawasaki and Co., 

Kobe, and between the Showa 

shipping Co., Ltd., Shanghai, and 

Progs., Nos. 18(62)-W, 

WAR 

1941 (Secret) 

1941 

the Showa trading Co., Tokyo and 

Dairen. 

Treatment to be accorded to the 

Japanese Consular Officers in 


WAR 1941 

1941Secret 



WAR 

1936 

1937 

Case of War with Japan. Disposal 

of the Official & Private funds held 

by the Japanese Consulates. 

Question of arranging despatch of 

there cases containing binoculars 

& other optical instruments left by 

Progs., Nos. 59(51)-W, 

Karel Kral alias Harold Arthur 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Whitehead a Czechoslovak in the 

cudtody of John David of the 

British Consulate Belgrade. 

Search of baggage belonging to 

Japanese consular officers and 

their families before despatch out 

of India. Policy regarding the 

search of imaccompanied 

baggage of consular officers & 

their Families 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


from Japan-List of evacuees in 

S.S. Anhui --Recovery of passage 

money etc. from Indian evacuees. Progs., Nos. 35(22)-W, 

1938 

WAR 1941 

Requests for the evacuation of 1941 Secret 

Mrs. Shanti Swamp G.K.Khanna 

Jai Pal & M.M.Kohli--Authorization 

of passage money etc. 

1939 

1940 

1941 

1942 

Censorship Interceptions- From 

Mukhia Bros., Bahrain to Mukhiaji 

Manishanker Es., Karchi- Scheme 

for evasion of Export Control. 

Progs., Nos. 39(76)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Withdrawal by Japanese 

Government of code facilities Progs., Nos. 10(63)-W, 

WAR 1941 

from India Trade Commissioner in 1941(Secret) 

Japan. 

Censorship Interception-Mail for 

Enemy Occupied territory via 

Lisbon. 

Contraband control in the Persian 

Gulf Extension of the Navicut 

System to Iraq and Iran. 

Introduction of the export 

Licensing system in the protected 

Arab states & Muscat Decision to 

depend it for the present 

Progs., Nos. 39(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 13-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 



WAR 

1943 

1944 

1945 

1946 

1947 

1948 

1949 

Conscription of Belgian subjects 

in India. Question of the grant of 

visas to --in order to join Belgian 

Forces in U.K. etc. 

Constitution of a Mixed Medical 

Commission in India to examine 

prisoners of war and Internees. 

Scale of Italian protected 

personnel tobe retained for duty 

with Italian Prisoners of war. 

Right of Representative of 

Protecting power to be present 

during deliberations of mixed 

Medical Commission. 

Exchange..... 

Export Trade Control-Re-export 

traffic of food parcels etc., from 

Afghansitan to Enemy Countries. 

Use of official seals on private 

correspondence by S.Mahommad 

Din, Divisional Accountant, 

Independent Persian Gulf Subdivision, 

Bushire. 

Censorship Interceptions- U.S.A. 

trade in the Far East. 

Export Trade Control-Manganese 

on to Japan -Export of -Estimate 

of production of Portuguese 

Indian Manganese & monthly 

export returns to Japan. 

Progs., Nos. 26-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

Progs., Nos. 36(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 15(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

Progs., Nos. 10(58)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(72)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(79)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Censorship Intercepts received 

from controller of Enemy Trading, 

Progs., Nos. 18(84)-W, 

Bombay, re. activities of Certain 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Iraian Firms to trade with 

Germany. 

Preparation for eventuality of war 


1950 with Romamiz, Hungary, Bulgaria 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

etc.- Treatment of their Nationals. 

1951 

1.Italian and German Prisoners of 

War Matters connected with their 

pay and allowances and 

accommodation in India. 2. 

Progs., Nos. 30(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 




WAR 

1952 

1953 

1954 

1955 

1956 

1957 

1958 

1959 

Treatment to be accorded to 

Protected Italian and German 

Personnel. 3. Facilities to 

Apostolic Delegates to visit 

Prisoners of War Camps for 

Pastoral Purposes. 


between Ingersoll Rand (India) 

Ltd., Bombay, and Ingersill Rand 

Co., New York-- regarding 

renders for compressns required 

by the Iraqi Govt. 

Procedure to be followed in 

nespoting the deaths of and 

Serious illness among Civil 

Internees. 

Whereabouts of certain ex-officer 

Basra Ports.--- 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(14)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(40)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Export Trade Control-Jute Goods 

Progs., Nos. 15(19)-W, 

shipped to the Pacific Coast of the 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 

U.S.A. 

The Question of Rates of 

allowances admission to the 

Families of British Subject of 

enemy Origin and Non-enemy 

Foriprers, who are Interred in 

India 2. Statement of War 

Expenditure during the Year 

1940-41. 

Censorship Interceptions- Nepal - 

Re. 

Control of Non-Postal 

Communications by the Land 

Customs Officer Nok-Kundi. 

Telegrams in plain English on 

British Govt. State Service from 

London to Br. Legation Kabul---- 

Containing information about 

admission of Fortnightly reports 

on circular & special information 

telegram Decision of the 

N.W.F.P.to send it by bag to 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(44)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 37(17)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(48)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1960 

1961 

1962 

1963 

1964 

1965 

1966 

1967 

Kabul. 

Enquiry from the British Legation 

, Kabul asking for Information 

regarding countering fifth Column 

activities & Protection of Vikal 

points, for the use of the Afghan 

Govt. if they show interest in it. 

2. Pamplet , Fifth column asa 

Weapon in War, 1942. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Question of treatment to be 

accuded to the Japanese Resident 

Military Officer in India after the 

outbreak of war with Japan- 

Decision that he should be 

accuded full Consular privilleges 

pending repatriation to Japan and 

not made a prisoner of war. 

Progs., Nos. 

1941 Secret 

7(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Question of employment of White 

Russians in various capacities in 

India. 

Recruitment of women in 

Auxiliary territories Services as 

clerks and Switch Board operation 

in middle East. 

Employment of war Nurses in 

India- Enquiry made by H.B.M.`s 

Ambassador, Tokyo Regarding 

the eligibility of an Anglo-Chinese 

for the above-Decision that she is 

not eligible for Recuitment. 


Americas Americans and their 

possessiones. 

Export Trade Control-Supply of 

electrical goods for the new 

Afghan textile Mills at Phuli-i- 

Khumni Afghanistan. 

Request from the Polish Consul 

generl at Bombay fro the 

despatch of some undelivered 

letters tothe Palestine authorities 

for delivery to Mr. and Mrs. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(45)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

1968 

1969 

1970 

1971 

1972 

1973 

1974 

Kutten two Polish Nationals. 

Distribution of Central articles by 

P.R.O. for Propaganda. 

Japanese Prisoners of war from 

Burma --Treatment & rations 

provisions etc. 


Miscellaneous Matters regarding 

China & Far East. 

Detention of Gerald Thomas 

Dobeson Captain of Wray Castle 

in French Guinea. 

Sikkim States Contributions 

towards the Viceroy`s War 

Purposes Fund and Similar other 

funds. 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 36(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(31)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 40(16)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Export Trade Control-Restrictions 

on the export of goods consigned 

to certain firms in China(e.q. 

United Manufacturing electric 

company Shanghai & the China & Progs., Nos. 15(83)-W, 

WAR 1941 

South Seas trading Comp. 1941 Secret 

Shanghai) Decision not to address 

H.M.`s Consul Goa in respect of 

discriminatory orders against 

neutral firms. 

Enemy Trading-- Shipmento f 

Iraqi Mohani for M/s Mitsubishi 

Shoji Kaisha Ltd., Loky. 

1975 War with Bulgaria. 

1976 

1977 

1978 


1.Kashgar. 2. Gilgit. 


Freezing Orders-Effects on the 

Far East trade. 

Japanese Interrnees from Burma, 

Netherlands Eadt Indies & straits 

Settlement. Appointment of Mr. 

Singleton to Mr. & Mrs. Chen on 

Camp Staff. 

Progs., Nos. 18(48)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 54(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(19)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(66)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(31)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

1979 Export Trade Control-China. Progs., Nos. 15(78)-W, WAR 1941 



WAR 

1980 

1981 

1982 

1983 

Question of grant of licence to 

Ewo Mills Managers Jardine 

Malterson and company China for 

export of Jute. 

Control of exports from India & 

neighbouring Empire and Allied 

Countries to Persian Gulf for 

purposes of enemy blockade. 

Creation of a Persian Gulf war 

trade Bureau under Commerce 

Deptt. & functions thereof 


Activities of Mr. Antonim Besse of 

Aden. 

Evacuation of certain emigre 

Germans from Turkey in the 

event of German invasion of 

Turkey. Decision of the Govt. of 

India neither to admit these 

persons in India nor to authorize 

grant of transit visas to them. 

Contributions from foreigners and 

British Subjects in Kabul towards 

various organizations connected 

with the War. 

1984 Censorship Interceptions- Iraq. 

1985 

1986 

1987 

1988 

Escort for consignment at arms, 

ammunitions and explosives 

despatched by Rait in India. 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(94)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(57)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(32)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(28)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 61-W, 1941 

WAR 1941 

Secret 

Recruitment of technicians from 

U.S.A. in the Civilian Technical 

Corps. Attachment of U.S.A Tank Progs., Nos. 49(10)-W, 

WAR 1941 

personnel in middle East to the 1941 (Secret) 

Armmed Fighting Vehicles School, 

Ahmednagar. 

Enemy Trading-- Enquiry into the 

Identity of Takeda Shoten, a 

certain Japanese Firm. 

Policy in regard to the trading 

activites and treatement of firms 

in the U.S.A. 

Progs., Nos. 18(46)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(12)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 



WAR 

1989 

1990 

1991 

1992 

1993 

1994 

1995 

1996 

1997 

1998 

Enquiry from Censor General, 

Bushire, regarding Censorship of 

mails in transit from Neutral 

country to a neutral country. 

Distribution for Propaganda 

Purposes of Eqyptian Newspapers 

received from Middle East 

Intelligence Center, Cairs. 

1. Censorship intercepation of a 

cover addressed to Major 

Crichtion, Political Agent, Gilgit, 

containing photographs revealing 

information on Military matters. 

2. The use of word `we` in 

official and demi-official 


Progs., Nos. 10(60)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(59)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Prize procedure Representations 

from the Brazilian Consul Calcutta Progs., Nos. 

regarding the Copture of Italian 1941Secret 

Steamer Calabria. 

14(2)-W, 

WAR 1941 

Special priority on telegraph and 

telephone Systems in connection 

with the war. 

Proclamation of the U.S.A. Govt. 

restricting with certain Firms of 

Latin American. 

Question of the employment of 

Mr. Peter Paul Ladewizin and Dr. 

Warner Adam Laqqueur, German 

Jew Scientists now at Istanbul. 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Evanucation of Eurasian British 

Subjects Indians etc. from Japan 

& Occupied China. 2. Question of Progs., Nos. 35-W, 1941 WAR 1941 

accepting indigent Europian 

evacues from them Place in India. 

Attitude of different Government 

towards to Japan and other Axis 

Powers declaration of War etc. 

Translation and Distribution of 

French articles appearing in the 

Turkish Press, received from the 

British Attache, Ankara. 

Progs., Nos. 54(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 82-W, 1941 WAR 1941 



WAR 

1999 

2000 

2001 

2002 

2003 

2004 

1. Addition to the `` Instruction 

to the War watching Stations 

(India), 1938``. 2. Amendments 

to the `` War Watching manual 

(India) 1938.`` 

Question of obtaining Italian 

books for Prisoners of war in 

India. 

Eventuality of War with Spain- 

Action to be taken in respect of 

Ships and cangoes destined for 

Portugal & Portuguese atlantic 

Islands, Spain & Spanish 

possessions. 

Censorship Interceptions- Russia 

& Russians. 

Preparation of a list of foreign 

firms doing business in 

Baluchistan for purposes of 

censorship in time of war. 

Notification regarding Enemy 

Firms issued by the Defence Coordination 

Department Under the 


2005 Censorship Interceptions--Iran. 

2006 

2007 

2008 

2009 

Working of the Control of Non- 

Postal Communications Order, 

1940 in the North West Frontier. 

Arrangements of N.W.F. for 

Contraband control & control of 

enemy Trading-Establishment & 

Incidence of cost thereof in 

connection therewith. 

Revised list of Netherlands 

authorities abroad iin respect of 

which Netherlands Consul General 

enjoys cypher facilites. 

Censorship Interceptions-Trade 

between non-Enemy Countries. 

Censorship Interception-Activities 

of George W.Dymond 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 36(18)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941Secret 


WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(38)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(15)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(24)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 


WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1941 



WAR 1941 

1941 Secret Part II 

Progs., Nos. 39(13)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 



WAR 

Johannesburg Decision that the 

High Commissioner should be the 

Sole Channel of Communication 

between the Govt. of India & the 

Govt. of the Union of the South 

Africa. 

Activities of Mrs. Alice Elise 

MONTMERILI-SANDONNINNI 

German born naturalised 

American wife of a Britisher Living Progs., Nos. 29(14)-W, 

2010 

WAR 1941 

with Mr. Wilkinson of the Nizam`s 1941 Confidential 

State Railway at Lalguda who is 

suspected of pro-German 

Activities. 

Evacuation of Service families 

from Singapore. Evacuation of 

Progs., Nos. 35(31)-W, 

2011 European employees & Skilled 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 

asiatic workmen of Admirally from 

Singapur. 

2012 

2013 

2014 

2015 

2016 

of prisoners of war with Italy 

Consequent on ..their 

examination by mixed Medical 

Commission. 

Question of finding employment 

in India for Werner KIRCHOFF, a 

Swiss Engineer from 

Afghaninstan. 

Progs., Nos. 36(11)-W, 

WAR 1941 


Progs., Nos. 49(22)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 (Secret) 

Amendement of Emergency 

Powers Ordiance, 1940. 2. Civil Progs., Nos. 

Disobdienu Movement. Proviential 1941(Secret) 

reports etc. 

47-W, 

WAR 1941 

Protection of British & Indian 

Lutrests in enemy a enemyoccupied 

countries. 


India Rules. (2) Decision that the 

Defence Co-ordination Deptt. 

should address the Baluchistan 

Administration Direct about the 

amendments to the Defence of 

India Rules and supply copies of 

correspondence to the E.A. 

Department. 


WAR 1941 

1941 


WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 



WAR 

2017 

2018 

2019 

2020 

849 

850 

851 

852 

Question of remittance of Rs. 99 

to Mr. Robert Koch, Nova Goa by 

the Charted Bank of India , 

Austrilia and China , Bombay on 

behalf of the Swiss Consul 

General , Bombay. 

Abuse by M.Hirata, Chancellor, 

Japanese Consultate-General, 

Calcutta, of concessions granted 

to him under Postal censorship. 

(2) Interception by censorship 

authorities, Calcutta, of a 

package sent by the above 

Japanese Official to Tokyo, found 

to be containing an album of 

private photographs. 

Miranshah Passive Air Defence 

Scheme Expenditure on 

Constructional Works. 

Procedure in respect of transit at 

Indian ports of goods licensed in 

Australia for exportation to 

Portuguese Indian Ports Persian 

Gulf etc., etc. 

Baggage of Mr. T.Kauasaki and 

Mr. K.G. Okzakki Return of -to 

the Swedish Cobsul General 

Bombay. 

Method of applying import and 

export control in Southern 

Rhodesia. 

Question of encouraging contact 

between Czechoslovakian and 

Indian in India through the 

medium of lectures etc. 

Alleged detention in censorship of 

correspondence between Messrs. 

Butterfield and Swire` Chungking 

and Bombay offices. Censorship 

and transmission of letters 

Progs., Nos. 29(25)-W, 

WAR 1941 



WAR 1941 



WAR 1941 

1941(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(145)-W, 

WAR 1941 

1941 Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(102)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 38(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

853 

854 

855 

856 

857 

858 

addressed to Messrs Butterfield 

and Swire` Limited, Bombay. 

A.R.P. Conference convened by 

the Civil Defence Department. 2. 

Submission of reports by 

Provincial Governments to Civil 

Defence Department and Defence 

Department, on Hostile attacks 

and their effects. 3. Submission 

of reports to External Affairs 

Department in respect of hostile 

attacks in the Gilgit Agency. 

Question of removal of offices 

subordinate or attached to the 

Govt. of India from threatened 

areas and of the Provision of 

alternative accommodation for 

them elsewhere. 

Export Trade Control Request 

from the Afghan Govt. for 

assistance in purchasing in India 

medical and Veterinary 

equipment and medicines 

required for the Afghan Army. 

Censorship Interceptions ---- 

Items regarding trade. 

Japanese Internees -- Application 

of Principles of Prisoners of war 

convention on reciprocal basis. 

Question of ascertaining of Mr. 

Joseph Nesterink an internee 

from Persia with a view to allow 

him to join Polish Army. 

Grant of concessions under postal 

and telegraph censorship to 

Mons. Bonvin to enable him to 

correspond with Headquarters of 

the Council of Liberation at 

Algiers the Head of any Colobial 

Possession under the 

FrenchCouncil of Liberation the 

Fightings Fench Committee in 

London and General Catroux. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(151)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(23)-W, 

WAR 1942 




WAR 

859 

860 

861 

862 

863 

864 

865 

866 

867 

868 

Enquiry regarding the connection 

of M. Daneshwar, Tehran, with 

Statutory listed Abdul Rassoul 

Daneshvar. 

(3)Policy of the Government of 

India in regard to compelling 

Allied nationals to fulfull their 

military obligations. 

Censorship Interceptions ----1) 

France. 2) Fighting French. 3) 

French possessions in India. 

Progs., Nos. 32(18)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 39(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Disposal of goods consigned to 

the Japanese Legation Kabul 

Imported into India from 

Yokohama. Decision that Italian 

Legation Kabul is not an enemy 

Progs., Nos. 

1942 Secret 

6(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

under clause of rule 97 of defence 

of India Rules. 

Export Trade Control Afghanistan 

------- Motor vechiles and parts 

thereof. Quota for the supply of 

tyres and tubes to Afghanistan. 

The Cotton Fund Ordinance, 

1942. 

1. Policy letter from the Chief 

Censor India regarding 

cobcession granted ubder 

Telegraph Censorship to Foreign 

Consular officers in India. 2) List 

of non-diplomatic and nonconsular 

officials in India of the 

Allied Govt. who have been 

granted concessions under 

Telegraph Censorship. 3) List of 

Foreign authorities in ....... 

Use by the Japanese of Indian 

convicts from the Andamans for 

fifth column work in India. 

The Essential Services 

(Maintenance) Ordinance, 1941. 

Publication of Press Notes 

containing military information or 

Progs., Nos. 15(47)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

869 

870 

871 

872 

873 

having any bearing what-so-ever 

on military subjects or activities-- 

Prior Scrutiny by the local military 

Commander to guard against any 

important Leakage. 

Request of H. M`s Minister, 

Tehran, that the number of copies 

of War Trade Lists supplied to him Progs., Nos. 

from India should be increased 1942 (Secret) 

and that these documents should 

be sent to him by land couriers. 

17(8)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1. Trading activities of Drogaria 

Luso Indiana, Nova Goa, and its 

owner Dr. Venctexa Dessai, 

statutory enemies. 2. Listing of 

the cloaks for Drogaria Luso- 

Indiana, Nova Goa. 3.Medical 

supplies of enemy origin 

consigned to Menezes and Cia, 

Nova Goa.---- 

Treatment of Japanese Consular 

and diplomatic officials in India. 

Arrest of Messrs. K.Suto and 

Y.Sato and their subsequent 

restoration to the Calcutta 

Consular Party. Internment of Mrs 

Kawano,typist at the former 

Japanese Consulate, Bombay, 

Question of her restoration to the 

consular party. Funds of the 

Various Japanese Consulates and 

Consular Officials in India. 

Qusetion of evacuation of British 

and allied subjects from Midle 

east Countries I.E. Persia Iraq, 

Palestine and Egypt. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (A) 

Progs., Nos. 6-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

Secret(A) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Interneesx from Persia. Enquiry 

by the Greek Consul General, into 

the circumstances leading upto 

the internment to Mr. T.N. 

Cavivrottssi and Family, Greek 

nationals, 2. Request to H.M 

Minister Tehran to send dossiers 


WAR 

1942 (Secret) (A) 

1942 



WAR 

2021 

2022 

2050 

2051 

2052 

2053 

2054 

2055 

of all persons sent from Persia to 

India, for internment. 3. 

Representation from the 

Danish...... 

Policy towards Thailand(Siam)2. 

Estimates of Indians in Thailand & 

Thais in India. Treatment of Thai 

Consuls Mrs. Gladston & Gibbon 

in India. 

Question of evacuation of 

foreigners and British and British 

Indian Subject from Afghanistan. 

Progs., Nos. 2-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

including correspondence from 

private individuals to 

Progs., Nos. 10(21)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Ambassadore and other of Similar 1942(Secret)(B) 

status. 

1. The Allied Forces Ordinance, 

1942. 2. The Allied Forces (United Progs., Nos. 18(58)-W, 

WAR 1942 

States of America) Ordinance, 1942 

1942. 

Notifications issued by the 

Defence Department regarding 

Ship War Trade Lists and Ships 

Discrimination Lists. 

Censorship of mails of the 

Governor of French 

Establishments in India passing 

through Censors in South Africa. 

Reorganisation of the system of 

military commands in India. 

Maintenance of Families of 

interness sent to India, to India, 

from Iran. 2. Despatch of enemy 

natioals, from Persia to India for 

internment. 33. Repatriation of 

wives and children of enemy 

nationals from persia. 4. 

Approximate number of Foreign 

nationals, in Persia. 5. Enquiries 

into the Loss of passports of 

certain Italian internees from 

Persia. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(13)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 59(27)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2056 

2057 

Afghan Nepalese, French India 


Evacuees from Burma and other 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Countries in Japanese occupation. 

Papers discussions with His 

Majestys Minister Kabul on Export Progs., Nos. 15(193)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Trade Control in respect of 1942(Secret) 

Afghanistan. 

2058 War with Thailand (Siam.) 

2059 

2060 

2061 

Despatch of supplies of food. 

Clothing and medical comforts to 

Imperial Prisoners of war and 

internees in Japanese hands by 

diplomatic exchange ships and 

other relief ships. 

Question of granting code 

facilities to Mr. A.Elshin 

Representative in India of the 

Peoples commissariat for Foreign 

Trade of the U.S.S.R. 


any connection between T. 

Khosrovschahi, Tehran and 

Mohammed Khosrowshahi, 

Tehran. 

2062 The Tyre Rationing Order, 1942. 

2063 

2064 

2065 

2066 

Contraband Control ---- Invested 

Navicert Stsyem for Spain. 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(22)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(62)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Prohibition on the despatch 


overseas of Indian Railway Time- 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Tables and `Ìndian Bradshaw``. 

List of Poles in Afghanistan 

seeking employment in India. 

Suspension and resumption of 

postal communications between 

India and other foreign countries. 

Opening of telegraphic 

correspondence with certain 

French Colonies and mandated 

territories. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

2067 Export Trade Control---- Progs., Nos. 15(172)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2068 

Procedure regarding grant of 

licences for export of coffee. 

Japanese Internees -- Application 

of Principles of Prisoners of war 

convention on reciprocal basis. 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Lighting Restrictions----- Question 

Progs., Nos. 42(14)-W, 

2069 of enforcing--- in Nepal and 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Bhutan Dropped. 

2070 

2071 

2072 

2073 

2074 

2075 

2076 

2077 

Complaint by the Assam 

Government against the 

requisitioning of Saint Luke 

Hospital, Chabua, Assam for the 

American Army. 

The Motor Vehicles (Kerosene 

Prohibition) Order, 1942. 

Evecuation of U.S. Nationals from 

India. 

Censorship Interceptions ---- 1. 

Americas and Americans. 2. 

Madame Edith Karakaserie- Visa 

for India for Edith Karakerserie a 

Yugoslam national. 

Reciprocal exchange of British 

and Japanese subjects. 

Progs., Nos. 59(40)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(39)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(20)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Pondicherry, direct in cases of 

this nature and decide the release 

Progs., Nos. 32(14)-W, 

or detention of such 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (B) 

correspondence under intimation 

to the Government of India. 

Question of introducing new 

schemes for exchanging family 

letters with enemy or enemyoccupied 

countries (Belgium, 

Holland & Norway), through 

intermediaries in neutral 

countries----Dropped. 

Minister in London to Foreign 

Office regarding release of 

Messrs. Gerhart JEns Berg, Tyge 

Moller and Hedge Storch Neilsen, 

three Danish internees from 

Persia 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (B) 



WAR 

2078 

2079 

2080 

2081 

2082 

2083 

2084 

Free Poles in India---creation of a 

Progs., Nos. 59(14)-W, 

new association named`Ùnion of 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Poles in India``. 

Medical Personnel (Army in India) 

Mission. Composition, functions, 

and tour programme of--- 

Progs., Nos. 59(58)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Transit trade to Afghanistan ---- 

Detention by Karachi Customs of 

medicines intended for the 

Afghan Ministry of Health 

imported into India by S.S. Ex- 

Progs., Nos. 15(34)-W, 

WAR 

1942(Secret) 

1942 

minister and subsquent orders for 

their release. 

5) Paper from the India Office 

regarding the questuion of 

extension of code and cypher 

facilities for U.S. Coinsular 

officers. Facilities granted under 

Postal and Telegraph Censorship 

to the United States authorities in 

India. 6) Censorship of telegrams 

between neutral countries 

transitting India. 


WAR 


1942 

Employment of certain members 

Progs., Nos. 59(21)-W, 

of staff of Malayan Harbour Board 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

in Egypt and South Africa. 

War Legislation---- Non-Ferrous 

Metals Control. Non-Ferrous 

Metals Control Order, 1942. Non- 

Ferrous Metals (Movement by 

Rail) Order, 1943. 


Detenstion of telegrams from and 

to German Seamen refusing in 

Mormugao. 

Progs., Nos. 18(65)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(31)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Proposal to grant concession 

under the Telegraphic 

Progs., Nos. 

2085 Censorshuip to C.H. Lowe Chinese 

1942(Secret) 

Information Representative in 

Calcutta.(Dropped). 

8(8)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Export Trade Control -- 

Progs., Nos. 15(161)-W, 

2086 WAR 1942 

Afghanistan ---- Export license for 1942(Secret)(A) 



WAR 

2087 

2088 

2089 

2090 

2091 

2092 

one mower for F.M. Muhammaf 

Daud Khan and one cooker for 

Mr. Ghulam Muhammad Khan. 

Export of ......... 

Conscription of Allied national, in 

India. Question of making 

provisions under the Defence of 

India Rules for the release of 

Allied National, in India called to 

colours from the obligations, of 

their contracts of service etc. 

The Reserve Bank of India 

(Rangoon Register) Ordinance, 

1942. 

Grant of permission of Dr. Ludwik 

Sternbach, a Polish Citizen and 

employee of Censor Office in 

Bombay, to join His Majesty`s 

Land Forces in India. 

Enemy Trading : Question of the 

disposal of an intercepted letter 

from the Afghan National Bank, 

Berlin, to the Sherkate 

Naqshbandi, Kabul. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(45)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(16)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Defence Co-ordination 

Department printed file No. 925- 

SM/41 regarding : Maintenance of 

essential public services in an 

emergency arising out of a hostile Progs., Nos. 18(59)-W, 

WAR 1942 

attack, powers to compel workers 1942 (Secret) 

in essential services to remain at 

work; the Essential Services 

(Maintenance) Ordinance, 1941 

(No. XI of 1941.) 

(1) Question of employment in 

India of Mr.J.H.H.L.J. Bresser at 

Dutch Subject in Quetta. (2) 

Evasion of conscription by Mr. 

Bresser. Request by the 

Netherlands Consul General that 

the Government of India should 

force Mr. Bresser to leave for 

Ceylon where he could be 


WAR 1942 




WAR 

2093 

2094 

2095 

2096 

2097 

2098 

2099 

conscripted. ............................. 

Request from the netherlands 

Consul General, for permission to 

netherlands seamen to land 

without any hindrance at British 

Cochin & other ports in British 

India---- relaxation of ordinary 

visa regulations in favour of ships 

crews to land in India with the 

permission of local authorities. 

1. Question of prosecuting m/s 

Somchand Tribhovandar, 

Bombay, for attempting to 

establish relations with Iraq 

Trading Corporation, Baghdad. 2. 

Request to the Consulate General 

for Iraq that Iraq Consular 

Officers in India, before 

forwarding to private individual & 

firms in India the Names & 

addresses of.... 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (A) 

Instruction issued by the United 

States Navy Deptt. for all neutral Progs., Nos. 

shipping operating in their coastal 1942(Secret) 

and inland waters. 

12(9)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Policy letter from Chief censer 

India regarding Pistol 

correspondence of the Foreign 

Consuls or Visa officers in India. 

the cost of compiling such 

statement from the Netherlands 

Consular authorities. 

Suspected exchange of Italian 

Currency (Lira) for the Indian 

Currency at the Swiss Consulate, 

Calcutta. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret)(E) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Postal facilities for Swedish 

Nationals in India question of 

Progs., Nos. 10(10)-W, 

allowing transmission of private 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

correspondence in Consular bags- 

(dropped). 

2100 Currency Control-Repatriation of Progs., Nos. 25-W, 1942 WAR 1942 



WAR 

2101 

2102 

2103 

2104 

2105 

2106 

2107 

2108 

2109 

2110 

2111 

2 1/2% and 3% non-terminable 

Indian Sterling Loans. 

Treatment of foreigners in 

Thailand. Thai Govt. Notification 

defining persons considered to be 

enemy nationals. 

The Coal Mines Safety (Showing) 

amendment Ordinance, 1942. 

Prohibition on the wearing in 

public of the uniform proposed to 

be worn by the members of the 

Muslim National Guard. 

Censorships Interceptions-------- 

Motor vehicles and parts thereof 

to Afghanistan. 

War with Bulgania--- Prize 

procedure -Belgian Shipping. 

Enquiries regarding the full name 

and address of `Gental Kabul`. 

Evacuation of British Consular 

Staffs from the Netherlands East 

Indies. 

Transfer of U.S. Dollar balances, 

held in New Tork by the Japanese 

banks in India to the Reserve 

Bank of India to the credit of the 

Controller of Enemy Property. 

Export Trade Control ------ 

Exports to Messers. Ernests L. 

KKruse Apartado Mexico. 

Question of detaining a telegram 

from Mr. R. B. Moller of Shanghai 

to Mr. E. R. Moller of the Moller 

Lian Co. in Calcutta. 

Disposal of private and official 

funds of the Japanese Consular 

Oddicers in India. Afjustment 

against Central Revenues of 

certain expenditure incured in 

connection with the maintenance 

and repatriation of Japanese 

Consular officials. 

(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(33)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 59(32)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 27-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(91)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2112 

2113 

2114 

Persian Gulf Contraband control- 

Statements of imports and 

exports of main Committee. 

Transfer of funds of the Thai 

Govt. to the Consul General for 

Switzerland at Bombay. 


Czece Community in Tehran. 

2115 Air Raid Precautions. 

2116 

2117 

2118 

2119 

2120 

2121 

Censorship Intercept --- 

Attempted evasion of censorship 

by the Iraqi consul at Karachi by 

sending letters to Baghdad 

through Iraqi consulate-General 

at Bombay. 2) Request from the 

Iraqi Foreign office to H.Ms. 

ambassader at Baghdad for 

exemption from Censorship of 

correspondence addresed to the 

Consulate for Iraq at Karachi. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (Part-I) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

The Indian Army (Amendment) 

Ordinance, 1942. 2. The Indian 

Progs., Nos. 18(34)-W, 

Army Act (Application) Ordinance, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

1942. 3. The Army and Air Force 

(Enrolment) Ordinance, 1942. 

Complaints from the Persian 

Government regarding detention 

of certain envelopes etc., 

addressed to addressed in 

America, by the Bombay Censor. 


communication to those 

concerned of information relating 

to Shipping. 

Treatment foreign firms, banks, 

insurance companies, etc., in 

Hongkong and Shanghai after the 

Japanese occupation. 

Japanese Navy Ordinance 

modifying Ordinance No. 8 of 

1914 respecting the Rules of Sea 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(43)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(59)-W, 

WAR 1942 




WAR 

2122 

2123 

2124 

2125 

2126 

Warfare. 

Question bringing the activities of 

one Herman Saudin, a naturalized 

amrican Citizen of German birth, 

employed as Second Enginer on 

the S. S. alamar, believed to be 

holding very stong pro-Nazi 

feelings to the notice of the U. S. 

Commissioner. 

Progs., Nos. 

1942 (Secret) 

31(4)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Aide-Memoire from the Office of 

the Personal Representative of 

the President of the U.S.A. to 

India requesting the removal of 

restrictions placed alma L. 

Tauscher (nee A. L. Jungerman), 

an American Citizen, as a result 

of her marriage to a German 

Missionary. 2. Option given to 

Mrs. Tauscher either to 

accompany her husband to the 

Family Internment Camp or to 

remain where she is. Enquiry 

from the Orissa Govt. regarding 

the extent to which restrictions on 

her could be relaxed in the latter 

event. 3. German law of 

nationality in regard to Foreign 

wives of German nationality. 

Progs., Nos. 

1942 (Secret) 

31(9)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Request to the Consul General for 

the Netherlands at Calcutta to 

supply information that the 

Netherland Authorities may 

possess regarding the German 

internees from the Netherlands, 

East Indies held at Ramgarh in 

reciprocation to report from 

Ramgarh Camp. 

Grant of Concession under 

telegraph Censorship to major G. 

Enders U.S.A. Military Attache at 

Kabul. 

Enemy Trading : Position of the 

Nestle group of companies in the 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 



WAR 

event of the occupation of 

Switzerland by the enemy. 2. 

Enquiry by the P. A., Bahrain, 

from the Hon`ble the P. R. in the 

Persian Gulf whether orders from 

Bahrain merchants to Swiss firms 

which have not given the required 

undertaking to H.M.G. should be 

withheld. 

Release of a Sum of Rs. 7,100/due 

to M. Achod Handjian, 

Progs., Nos. 

2127 Tehran, on account of the 

1942 (Secret) 

Purchase of silk worm eggs by the 

Kashmir Govrnment. 

32(7)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2128 

2129 

2130 

2131 

2132 

2133 

(1) Treatment meted out to 

British prisoners of war and 

internees in Japanese hands. (2) 

Conditions in the Far East after 

the fall of Hong Kong, Singapore 

and Burma. 

Censorship Interception ---- 

Arrest of Aliens by U.S. Govt. 

treatment of Thailanders. 

Censorship and transmission of 

private letters etc., received in 

the External Affairs Department 

diplomatic bags from other 

countries. 

1) Exemption from censorship of 

the postal communication 

exchanged between the Governor 

of French India and the Free 

French Representatives abroad. 

Export Trade Consul -Afghanistan 

------- Recording machine and 

Gramophne records for the 

Afghan King. 

Progs., Nos. 59(46)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(18)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 38-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(13)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 15(84)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

The Watchtower Bible and Tract 

Society. Prohibition of the making 

and publishing of literature issued Progs., Nos. 19(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 

by the Society and the 

1942 (Secret) 

International Bible Students 

Association, or any Organisation, 



WAR 

2134 

2135 

connected with them. 

some shipping intelligence - 

Question of asking the consul to 

send such messages in Cypher. 

Lease and Lend----Supplies under 

Lease/Lend. Procedure to be 

followed for the import of certain 

classes of stores from the U.S.A. 

under Lease/Lend. Recoveries 

and accounts adjustments in 

connection with Lease/Lend 

Stores. Prices at which 

Lease/Lend goods are to be 

issued or sold. 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 3-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

Secret 

The Armed Forces (Special 

Powers) Ordinance, 1942, and the Progs., Nos. 18(44)-W, 

2136 

WAR 1942 

Armed Forces (Special Powers) 1942 (Secret) 

Extension Ordinance, 1942. 

2137 

2138 

2139 

2140 

2141 

2142 

2143 

Question of applying the Coloured 

Motor sprit Control order, 1942, 

to Baluchistan. 

(1) Definition of the terms 

`Ùnited Nations`` and `Àllied 

Nations``. (2) List of United 

Nations. 

Disposal of the personel kit of 

Col. J.I Jinda former Japamse 

Resident military officer in India. 

The Burma Notes Ordinance, 

1942. 

Consolidated list of Czech & Polish 

technicians seeking employment 

in India. 

Disposal of the Bank balances in 

India of the Japanese Legation 

Kabul and its Secretary. 

1. Request from Mr. A. Mensik, a 

Czech national for the 

transmission of a letter 

addressed, by him to the Czeck 

Govt. in London. 2. Censorship 

Intercept of a letter from Mr. A. 

Progs., Nos. 18(63)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 59(50)-W, 

WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(40)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


1942(Secret) 

WAR 1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2144 

2145 

Mensik to Dr. Frant, London. 

Intercept of a letter to Dr. Dino 

Picciani an Italian Prisoner of War 

showing misuse of the Privileged 

mail of the Spainish consul at 

Bombay. Question of addressing 

the consul for Spain at Bomabay 

in the matter-Dropped. 

1) Suspected misuse of 

ecclesiastical bag by the 

Patriation of Goa, the Rev. Jose 

da Costa Nunes Question of 

subjecting his correspondence to 

Censorship. 2) Censorship 

intercepts of the correspondence 

of the Patriation of Goa.. 

Progs., Nos. 39(16)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Enquiry by the Secretary of State 

for India London, whether Import 

Progs., Nos. 

2146 licences are necessary for goods 

1942 (Secret) 

Consigned from overseas to Nepal 

and Afghanistan. 

16(8)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2147 

2148 

2149 

Bombay Which were imported 

dutyfree and later on disposed of 

in India.8) Question of allowing 

Miss Anne Guthrie, General 

Secretary National committee 

Y.M.C.A., Burma and Ceylon to 

visit women of the Jap. Consular 

party at Mussoorie. 9) Request 

from the Consul General for 

Sweeden at Bombay for transfer 

to him of private balances of Jap. 

consular officials. Decision that 

.......... 

Censorship of a letter addressed 

by a private individual to Dr. 

Soong of the Chinese Embassy 

Washington. 2) Exemption from 

Censorship of Diplomatic mails 

transitting India, ......... 


WAR 1942 

1942(D) 

Progs., Nos. 10(15)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Export Trade Control --- Question 

Progs., Nos. 15(30)-W, 

of extending the validity of export 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

licenses in the case of goods 



WAR 

2150 

2151 

2152 

2153 

2154 

2155 

under export to Afghjanistan from 

three months to six months. 

Export Trade Control -----Goods 

for firms on the M.E.W.G. Lists. 

Question of evacuation from 

Persia 1. Revised sanction to 

expenditure on Europeans 

Foreigners entering Baluchistan 

from Abroad. 2. Accounting 

arrangements in connection with 

the reception and maintenance of 

evacuees. 

Censorship Interceptions ---- An 

intercepted letter from Luis to 

Sign Proto Mascharen has Poate 

Rest ante Morgao Goa. 

granted unless sugh requests are 

made through the principle 

representatives in India of the 

country concerned with full and 

Complete reasons adducted. 

Employment of Polish evacuees 

from Persia in the Royal Indian 

Navy. 

Progs., Nos. 15(66)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 27(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(30)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

3) Enquiry from the Consul 

General for Switzerland at 

Bombay re the baggage to be 

taken by the Japanese officials.4) 

Inclusion of Miss Oda and Mrs. Progs., Nos. 6(26)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Karnawo in the Consular party. 5) 1942(Secret)(B) 

Private funds of the Japanese 

officials located at the Purana Qila 

Internment Camp.6) Effort of the 

U.P. Govt. to take over .......... 

Extract from Ministry of Economic 

Warfare report regarding Progs., Nos. 

2156 

payment to persons in enemy and 1942 (Secret) 

enemy occupied territory. 

34(3)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2157 

required for the Broadcasting 

Stateus in Kabul. 3) Detention in 

India of values of Italian origin. 

Progs., Nos. 15(79)-W, 

WAR 1942 


2158 2) Concessions to the Governor of Progs., Nos. 10(13)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2159 

2160 

2161 

2162 

2163 

2164 

2165 

FrenchIndia to use the telegraphic 1942(Secret)(B) 

address Francaise Liberes 

London. 3) Request to the Chief 

Censor Cape Town regarding 

exemption from ........ 

2. Censorship intercept showing 

that outward letters in the Sindhi 

language are not allowed from 

unoccupied France. 

Export trade Control- Mr. & Mrs. 

H. Storch Niclsen. Persia (Iran). 

Treatment of European British 

evacuees from East. 2. Financial 

assistance to British Indian 

Evacuees from war zones. 3. 

Repatriation of Civilian evacuees. 

Censorship of mails exchanged 

btween Goa, Portugal and 

Portugese Possession overseas. 

Agreement between H.Ms. Govt. 

and the Portugese Govt. 

regarding censorship of mails at 

Bombay exchanged between Goa 

and Portuguese East Africa. 

Post War Relief. Proposed 

formation of a Relief and 

Rehabilitation Administration. 

Progs., Nos. 38(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 15(13)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(20)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Enquiry from the British Legation, 

Kabul as to whether Censorship is Progs., Nos. 10(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

imposed at Herat or anywhere 1942(Secret) 

else in Afghanistan 

India who have been granted 

concessions under Postal and 

Telegraph Censorship at the 

instance of External Affairs Deptt. 

4) Request from the D.G.P.& T. 

Iraq, for the supply of alist of 

Iraqi and Polish Consular Officers 

in India who have been granted 

privileges under Telegraph 

Censorship. 


WAR 1942 


2166 Censorship Interceptions ---- 1) Progs., Nos. 39(17)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2167 

2168 

Norway and Norwegians. 2) 

Belgium and Belgians. Sweden 

and Sweedes. Denmark and 

Danish. 

Suggestions of the Commander, 

Bombay Distt., for grouping 

together Chinese nationals in 

Bombay under the Chinese 

Consul at Bombay during 

emergency & arrangements for 

attaching Chinese Nationals to 

units of the army to help 

recoginize disguised Japanese. 

Grant pf concession under the 

telegraph Censorship to Mons. 

Ch. J.I.M. Welter the head of the 

Dutch Delegatiobn to the Eastern 

Group supply supply council and 

his Secretary Mons. J.Schim vam 

der Loeff. 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Japan and Japanese occupied 

Progs., Nos. 6-W, 1942 

2169 territory and Japanese Subjects in 

WAR 1942 

Secret(C) 

British Empire. 

2170 

2171 

2172 

2173 

2174 

Question of placing the firm of 

Ezra M. Hakkak & Sons Baghdad, 

on the suspect list and of placing 

restrictions on hides and leather 

exported from India to this firm 

and to Messrs. M. N. Hakkak, 

Baghdad. 

certain documents taken over 

from members of the Japanese 

Diplomatic Party from Iraq. 

The Registration of Foreigners act 

(Extending) Ordinance, 1942. 

Question of the employment of 

the U.S.A. labour units in India. 


----- Supply and export of tyres 

for the British Legation and for 

friendly Legations and Missions. 

and an estimate of their annual 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret(D) 

Progs., Nos. 18(30)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(147)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2175 

2176 

2177 

2178 

2179 

2180 

2181 

2182 

2183 

2184 

2185 

requirement. 

Air Raid Precautins---- Reports 

issued by the Civil Defence 

Department on hostile Air Raids 

and their effects. 

Application from Dr. Edward 

Stenz-a Polish national in 

Afghanistan for a mateorological 

appointment in India. 

Payment of money due to K. suto 

and Y. Sato of the Japanese 

Consuular Staff. 

The women`s Auxillary Corps 

Ordinance, 1942. 

Progs., Nos. 42(28)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(24)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Departmental weekly summaries. 

Allocation of departmental 

responsibility for doubtful 

important cases. Procedure for 

Progs., Nos. 

1942 Secret 

1(2)-W, 

WAR 1942 

sending pending lists of important 

cases. 

Export Trade Control--- Export of 

controlled goods to Portuguese 

Guinea Liberia and Rio-de-Dro. 2) Progs., Nos. 15(152)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Instructions regarding export of 1942(Secret) 

Non-Controlled goods to various 

countries. 

Arrangements for conducting the 

business of the Banque Nationale 

de Belgique during the War. 

Japanese consular party from 

Calcutta. 

Progs., Nos. 59(17)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Delegation of powers under the 

foreigners act, 1940, to 

Progs., Nos. 18(16)-W, 

WAR 1942 

respective authorities in the areas 1942 (Secret) 

under the E. A. Department. 

Restrictions on the despatch from 

British India of certain postal 

articles to foreign countries. 

Report from South African High 

Commissioner about the anti- 

British activities of Rolet (or 

Roulet), a Frenchman. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2186 

2187 

2188 

2189 

2190 

2191 

2192 

Complants regarding Censorship 

of official mail sent by the Afghan 

Consul at Karachi and addressed 

to the Afghan Visa officer, 

Peshawar. 2. Grant of full 

concession under Postal and 

Telegraph Censorship to 

subordinate Afghan Consuls at 

Bombay and Karachi. 


Telegraph Censorship to Foreign 

Consular officers in India. 

Permission to the Consul for Grrce 

at Bombay to exchange official 

telegrams in code or Cypher with 

the Departments of the Greek 

Commander-in-Chief. Complaint 

from the Chinese Consul General 

at Calcutta that the procedure 

whereby his consular bags 

........... 

Proposed visit of Mr. E.C. 

Ansorage I.C.S., to the Japanese 

Consular officials in Mussoorie. 

Question of banning the book 

``Japan in China``---- 

(Dropped). 

Disposal of the Estate of the Late 

Mr. Enrico Rostogno an Italian 

Subject taken over by the Sind 

Police. 

Classification and other 

information required by the 

Labour Department in regard to 

the printing of External affairs 

Department Secretariat War 

Book. Its reclassification into `` 

Non-Recurring``. 

Books and Publications. ---- 1. 

List showing treatment of 

Publications in Censorships. 2. 

Handbook on the Examination 

Service and the Issue of Local 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2193 

2194 

Traffic Regulations. 3. Military 

Instructions for the internment of 

enemy aliens in the event of War, 

1939. 

Reports on the North West India 

Internal Defence Exercise held in 

April, 1942. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Miscellaneous telegrams received 

from the Defence Deptt. about 

prisoners of war in India re: their 

accommodation, transfers 

between countries, etc. 2. 

Progs., Nos. 29-W, 1942 

Treatment of German and Italian 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

Merchant Seamen as Prisonsers 

of war and other relating to them. 

3. Transmission of official lists of 

Italian prisoners of war in India to 

Rome Via. Cairo and Ankara. 

Non-Postal Communication Order, 

1940. Transmission of letter from 

India to Goa in controvention of . 

Administration of a warning to the Progs., Nos. 18(57)-W, 

2195 

WAR 1942 

Mother Provincial Kankanady, 1942 (Secret) 

Mangalore, for sending letters to 

enemy Subjects in Goa, in 

contravention of-. 

2196 

2197 

2198 

U.S.A. Presidential Proclamations 

establishing the Howaian Mritime 

Control Area and the Cristobal 

and Gulf Panama Control Areas. 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Transfer of funds from Persia 

belonging to Axis National, 

Interned in India, Decision that 

remittances should be in favour of 

the Secy. to the Govt. of India in 

Progs., Nos. 30(14)-W, 

the Home Deptt. 3. Decision that 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (A) 

Protecting powers concerned in 

Persia should take stemps to 

facilitate transfer of bank 

balances and sale proceeds of the 

property...... 

Release of Mr. J.S. Pringle and 

Mr. W.F.G. Salkeld Calcutta, for 

Progs., Nos. 59(29)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2199 

2200 

2201 

service in Palestine----Request 

from High Commissioner, 

Palestint. 

Contraband control in the persian 

Gulf------- Mavicerts system for 

ships sailing to and from Persian 

Gulf. 

The Deputy Commander-in- Cheif 

(Powers) Ordinance, 1942. 

Refugees from Balkans and 

Turkey. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(32)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 28-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

``Fifth Column`` activities during 

Progs., Nos. 43-W, 1942 

2202 the Northern Command Air 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

Defence Exercises. 

2203 

2204 

2205 

2206 

2207 

determination to combat and 

defeat Axis plundering of 

territories overrun or brought 

under its control. (7) Request 

from the Netherlands Consul 

General for a statement of goods 

and balances belonging to 

Netherlands subjects in enemy 

occupied territories held by the 

Custodian of Enemy Property. 

Question of recovering......... 

Permission to Lt. Commander J.A. 

Smaal Netherlands Naval control 

officer at Bombay to exchange 

without censorship postal articles 

with additional Netherlands 

authorities abroad. 

Permission to trade with certain 

Statutory listed Sugar Companies 

in Dominican Republic controlled 

by VICINI family. 

Censorship Interception- General 

Mobilization of Greek Nationals. 

Business concerns in Iraq, should 

satisfy themselves that none of 

the firms concerned have been 

declared to be `` enemy``. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret)(D) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (B) 

2208 1. Exemption from the provisions Progs., Nos. 31(10)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2209 

2210 

2211 

2212 

2213 

of the Foreigners Order, 1939, of 1942 (Secret) 

service personnel of Allied 

military, naval or air forces when 

coming to India on duty. 2. List of 

Allied Nations. 

Board of Transport Control. List of 

Chinese officials in India who 

have been granted cypher 

facilities to correspond with the 

Chinese authorities abroad. 

Grant of facilities to the Acting 

Apostolic prefect for Sind to visit 

Dutch ships in Karachi port. 

1) Request from the Tibetan 

Govt. for exchanging officials 

mails with their representative in 

China via India.2) Transmission of 

a letter from the Tibetan Govt. to 

their representative in Chungking 

through Indian Agency General 

bag from Calcutta. Decision that 

the Agency General bags should 

not be used for such 


Procedure re: Publication in the 

Press of Statements regarding Air 

raids and Air raids casualties. 

Question of placing restrictions on 

Robert Benoist, assistant 

manager, Faletti`s Hotel, Lahen, 

and Sometime manager of a 

leading hotel in Iangier, reported 

to have left Tangier in Suspicions 

circumstances. 

2214 Censorship Interceptions ---- 

2215 

Permission given to the Consul 

General of Switzerland to sed two 

X-Ray photographs etc. in his 

official mail bag to the Swiss 

Govt. 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 59(36)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 10(21)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 42(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(23)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

2216 Minutes of a conference attended Progs., Nos. 59(24)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2217 

2218 

2219 

2220 

2221 

2222 

by the representatives from 

Provincial Criminal Investigation 

Departments, concerning the 

immediate necessity of 

strengthening the execusive in 

the interests of internal security 

and as the best possible way of 

strengthening morale. 

Application for an Emergency 

Commission from Mr. Hugo 

SMELA, a Czechoslovak national 

and an employ of the Aluminium 

Corporation of India Ltd., 

Anupnagar, District Burdwan. (2) 

Return of certain articles 

belonging to Mr. Smela held by 

the Inspector of enemy firms 

Peshawar. 

Proposed transfer of Japanese 

officials from Mussoorie. 

Recovery of advances etc. made 

to certain persons evacuated by 

the S.S. Anhui from Japan 

Request from MrZ.on Resident 

Representative at Calcutta of the 

Chinese Ministry of 

Communication for exemption 

from censorship of the issues of 

Statesment and Amrit Bazar 

Patrika which he would send to 

the Chinese Minister of 

communication (H.E.K.N. Chang) 

Disposal of German Red Cross 

parcels addressed to the crews of 

the German ships taking refuge in 

Goa. 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(18)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(41)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

private funds of Jap. officials in 

excess of 1000 Yen to take with 

them on repatriation will vest in 

the custodian. 10)Disposal of 

prohibted articles e.G. camerans 

pistols etc. of the Japanese 

Consular officials. 11) Question of 

Progs., Nos. 

1942(E) 

6(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 



WAR 

2223 

2224 

2225 

2226 

2227 

2228 

paying amounts advanced by 

theSwedish Consul General to 

certain Jap. officials on their 

repatriation. 

Procedure to the followed in 

respect of any document, parcel 

on thing in the custody of the 

Postal on Telegraph authorities 

wanted for the purpose of any 

investigation, inquiring in other 

proceeding under the Criminal 

Procedure Code. 

Treatment of Japanese 

Consulates Consular officers and 

Nationals in India. Visits of 

Protecting consuls to Internment 

Camps. 

War Trade List No. 11 and advice 

Notes thereto. M.E.W. ``G`` List 

No. 8 and Supplements thereto. 

The Indian Press (Emergency 

Powers) Amendment Ordinance, 

1942. 

Enquiries as to the identity and 

possible connection of Messrs. 

E.X.R. Pereira with Messrs. 

Elasbao Pereira and Sons 

Mormugao (Enemy Firm). 2. 

Vesting with the Custodian of 

Enemy Property of the deposit of 

Rs. 1,000/- in 5% Government of 

India Loan, held by the Burmah 

shell Oil Company on Elesbao 

Pereira`s account. 

Grant of concession to Mr. Aura 

Smith Representative in In India 

of the American Co-ordinator of 

Information to exchange official 

telegrams in Cypher with Coordinator 

of Information 

Washington. Decision that 

facilities under telegraphic 

Censorship to representatives of 


WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(52)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 




WAR 

2229 

2230 

2231 

2232 

2233 

2234 

2235 

2236 

Foreign Govts. in India should not 

be ........... 

Decision that carriage by hand or 

any special couriers of official 

consular mails duly franked by 

Censor authorities, be alowed to 

pass out of India without Customs 

examination. 

Progs., Nos. 10(19)-W, 

WAR 

1942(Secret) 

1942 

Export Trade Control -- 

Afghanistan --- Question of 

relasing for export all goods lying 

in Peshawar that had reached the 

tradeAgency prior to 1st May 

without going through licensing 

procedure. 

Disposal of unexploded Bombs. 

Formation of a Bomb Disposal 

Organisation. 

1) Grant of concessions under 

Postal and Telegraph Censorship 

to the Commissioner of China to 

India re Censoship of his mails. 

Interest of a telegraph in plain 

Norweigan languages nowegian 

consul Bombay to Borwegian 

Govt. in London containing 

........... 

the A.G.C.R.and of private funds 

to U.P. Governmentand Chief 

Commissioner Ajmer. 4) 

Transferof Mr. and Mrs. F. 

Kumagai and Mr. C. Suzuki from 

the Japanese internment Camp, 

Purana Qila to the Japanese 

Consular party at Mussoorie. 

Request of the China National 

Aviation corporation for being 

permitted to Censor its own 



----- Fixatiour of quotes in 

respect of controlled exports and 

Progs., Nos. 15(163)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942(B) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(46)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2237 

2238 

2239 

2240 

2241 

2242 

2243 

2244 

2245 

revision of existing method of 

export licensing. Policy regarding 

reports to Afghanistan. 

Export Trade Control -Afghanistan 

---- Petrol tanks and mobile 

pumps required for the Afghan Air 

Force. 

private funds of the Calcutta and 

Rangoon Parties in the excess of 

Rs. 815/- or 1000 Yens. 


Maters relating to Turkey 

conditions in Turkey Foreigners in 

Turky. 

War Crimes. Establishment of a 

United Nations Commission for 

the investigation of War Crimes. 

Question of India`s 

representation on it. 

Restriction of purchases by 

officers of the Indian Army and 

Indian Prisoners of war in enemy 

hands (Germany and Italy). 

Progs., Nos. 15(115)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 39(15)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Censorship Interceptions ------- 


China and affairs relating thereto- 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

------- 

Policy letter from ChiefCensor 

India regarding Censorship of 

Diplomatic mails. 

Release of Mr. Vincenc Pycha 

from internment for service with 

Czechoslovak forces and 

arrangement for his passage to 

Middle East. 2. Question of the 

release of Mr. K. Zeidler from 

internment for service with the 

Czechoslovak Force. 

Censorship Interceptions ---- 1) 

Japan and Japanese. 2) Thailend 

and Thais. 3) Germany and 

Germans. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(13)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

2246 Netherlands Government taking Progs., Nos. 59(2)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2247 

2248 

2249 

2250 

2251 

2252 

over all goods abroad consigned 

or belonging to any Netherlands 

Indies authorities, companies or 

persons as well as realisable 

Netherlands Indies claims. (3) 

Establishment of Netherlands 

Indies Trade Commission for 

India and Ceylon to deal with 

claims of any goods belonging or 

............ 

Enquiries regarding the statutory 

listed Akhavans of Persia. 


Progs., Nos. 32(17)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


Sweden at Calcutta, incharge of 

Hungarian Interests, for 

information regarding the reasons 

Progs., Nos. 30(11)-W, 

for Mr. Milko internment. 2. 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Policies adotped by the Govts. of 

Hungary and India regarding 

internment of British and 

Hungarian subjects respectively. 

The Indian Coinage 

(Amendments) Ordinance, 1942, 

and notifications issued by the 

Finance Department fixing the 

Standard weight and authorising 

the issue of certain new coins. 

Request from T.Inui--Chancellor 

of the Japanesee Consulate 

Karachi for Permission to Join 

Japanese Consular Officials at 

Bombay. Request from the Hony. 

Consul for Sweden at Karachi for 

the transfer of Japanese consular 

and diplomatic officials at Karachi 

to Mussoori. 

Appointments of Controllers, 

Custodians, Inspectors etc., of 

enemy trading, enemy firms and 

enemy property. 

Afghanistan may be taken to ever 

also ke-export of the contains in 

which the goods are pocher. 

Progs., Nos. 18(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 




WAR 

2253 

2254 

2255 

2256 

2257 

2258 

2259 

2260 

Application from Mr. Vladmir 

Cervinka to join Czech Forces in 

the Middle East or Russia. 

Proposal from Captain 

C.Chimani., Mysore to set up a 

Free Austrian Movement in India. 

(2) `Àustrian Action``, and 

Question National Committee in 

U.S.A. 

Intercepted telegrams from 

Oeberg Company Eskilstuna 

(Sweden) to Robert Koch, Nova 

Goa. 2. Enquiry regarding the 

Status of Edward Coelho, Nova 

Goa. Recommendation that he 

should be placed on the Suspect 

List. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(55)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(15)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Position of A.R.P. in the Gilgit 

Progs., Nos. 42(30)-W, 

agency. The Gilgit agency Passive 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Air Defence Scheme. 

Mail communications between 

Saigon and Pondicherry. 

Censorship of diplomatic & 

Consular mails exchanges 

between vicory Govt. & their 

Embassies Legation and Senior 

Comnsular officers in neutral 

countries (like Afghanistan) while 

transmitting India. 

Air Raid Precautions in Tiwani in 

the Kalat State in Baluchistan. 

Priorities for aerodrome 

construction vis-a-vis other 

Defence works. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Telephone communications 

between India and Ceylon, (2) 

List of persons authorities to 

originate telephone calls with Progs., Nos. 59(22)-W, 

2261 

WAR 1942 

ceylon. Request from the Personal 1942(Secret) 

Representation of the President of 

U.S.A. to India for inclusion of 

certain officials in the visit. 



WAR 

2262 

2263 

2264 

2265 

2266 

2267 

2268 

2269 

2270 

2271 

2272 

Treatment of certain countries for 

purposes of Contrabad Control 

and Enemy trading. 

(1)Question of the employment in 

India of Messrs. J.Kazibutowski, 

L.Malinowski, J.Zacharzewski and 

Z.Jastrezebski, four Polish 

Nationals from Afghanistan. (2) 

Grant of an emergency 

commission to Mr. L.Malinowskin 

and permission accorded to his 

wife`s and his mother-in-law`s 

indefinite stay in India. -------- 

Censorship Interceptions---- 


from the Chief Censor, India. 

Information regarding Bhavnagar 

Port---anchorage etc. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 39-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(31)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Question of retaining services of 


Mr. Bird late Consul Chiengmai, in 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

military Intelligence capacity. 

Measures to keep essential 

services at work. Grant of 

concessions to Government 

Servants in threatened areas. 

(3) Grant of transit visas for India 

to Messrs. J.Zacharzewski and Z. 

Jastrzebski. 

The Legal Tender (Inscribed 

Notes) Ordinace, 1942. 


Persia and Persians. 2) Ex-Shah 

of Persia. 

Progs., Nos. 59(34)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 18(55)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Request of H.B.M.`s Consul in the 

Portuguese Possessions in India 

that routine correspondence 


intended for the British Vice- 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Consul in the Portuguese 

Possessions in India be addressed 

to the Vice-Consul direct. 

Question of payment of salaries 

appreciation money and 

Progs., Nos. 6-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

Secret(B) 



WAR 

2273 

2274 

2275 

2276 

2277 

2278 

christmas gratuities to the Staff 

employed in the former Japanese 

Consulate Bombay. Reciprocal 

evacuation agreement between 

H.M .`s Govt. and the Japanese 

Govt. Proposed reciprocal 

provision of funds by H.M.`s 

Govt. and the Japanese Govt. to 

Protecting powers of diplomatic 

expenditure and relief of 

necessitous British Subjects in 

Mr. H.P. Jensen, Internee, Central 

Camp. Dehra Dun--- Dispatch of 

Powers of attorney executed by 

him through Danish Consulate at 

Bombay to London. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Provisions of amenities for 

persons employed inessential 

Progs., Nos. 59(26)-W, 

services and for labour working in 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

factories etc., to keep up their 

morale. 

of Axis National, sent from that 

Country to India for internment 

as under the existing Persian 

exchange law there are 

restrictions, on the remittance of 

funds out of Persia. 

Report of the International Red 

Cross Committee regarding 

British Prisoners of war in the Far 

East 2. Allowance and fund 

pension to the families of the 

British service personnel reported 

to be missing or dead in Far East. 

3. Miscellaneous telegrams about 

Imperial prisoners of war in. 

Secheme for sending gift parcels 

to relatives in Russia of Palestine 

residents through the Bombay 

Branch of the Firm Messrs. 

Gwyahamoff. 


any connection between 

Progs., Nos. 30(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (B) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(13)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2279 

2280 

2281 

2282 

2283 

2284 

2285 

Figueiredo, Nova Goa, and 

Charlos de Figueiredo, Lisbon, an 

enemy firm. 

The Prisoners (amendment) 


War Trade List No. 9 and Advice 



Question of recovering and 

advance of 10/- Hong Kong 

Dollars made to Mr. A.N. banerji, 

by the Hong Kong Govt. on his 

repatriation from Japan in the 

S.S. Anhui 2. Decision that the 

amount be debited to the Central 

Revenues and necessary credit 

afforded to Hong Kong Govt. 

Question of repatriation of three 

Chinese maid servants formerly in 

the employ of Japanese Consulate 

General, Singapore and now 

lodged in the Japanese 

Internment Camp---- 2) Decision 

that they should not be sent to 

Japan with the Japanese 

repatriates. 


Commandant Petignot 

Pondicherry. 

1. Enquiries whether the 

Afghanistan Shareholders 

Construction Company, Kabul, are 

identical with the Afghanische 

Bau, A. G., Kabul, a black listed 

firm. 2. Question of imposing 

restrictions on the accont of this 

firm with the Afghan National 

Bank, Peshwar. 

Transmission of a letter 

addressed to Mrs. Katsube the 

British born wife of Mr. Katsube 

the Japanese Charge -de-Affairs, 

Kabul. 

Progs., Nos. 18(26)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(27)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 



WAR 

2286 

2287 

2288 

2289 

2290 

2291 

2292 

2293 

2294 


the administration in the event of 

hostile action within India. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Circulars issued by the 

accountant General, Central 

Progs., Nos. 

Revenues, regarding procedure to 

1942 (Secret) 

be followed in making payment`s 

due to Enemy Firms. 

34(2)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Registration of the Belgian Consul 

General at Calcutta as a Press 

agency under the abbreviated 

Progs., Nos. 44-W, 1942 

address `` agencinbel`` with 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

authority to issue & receive press 

telegrams to a from Àgencinbul` 

London. 

Enquiry about the Anti-Aggressive 

War Campaign Association. 

Supply to the Home Department 

of information in respect of 

officials and staff of the External 

Affairs Department, for whom 

nations will be required under 

New Delhi Secretariat keep 

scheme. 

The Railways (Employment of 

Military Personnel) Ordinance, 

1942. 

1. Arrangements connected with 

thew repatriation of Japanese 

Consular officials in India. 2) 

Grant of journey money to the 

Japanese Officials. Question of 

providing them with vaccinations 

certificates visas and permits to 

leave India. 

United Nations War Exhibition--participation 

of India in the at 

Illinios, U.S.A. 

Grant of concessions under Postal 

and Telegraph Censorship to the 

Yurkish Consul General at 

bombay. 

Progs., Nos. 59(45)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(61)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(53)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 59(30)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(17)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2295 

2296 

2297 

2298 

2299 

2300 

Question of Securing exemption 

from Military Service of M/s 

Desmet, Notaert and Deginde, 

Belgian Subject, employes of 

Indian steel and wire products 

Ltd. Singbhum 

Location of Karachi of the 

Japanese Diplomatic party from 

Iraq. Internment of Mr. T.Oka a 

member of the Japanese 

diplomatic party from Iraq. 

Proposed concentration of 

Japanese Consular Officials from 

Ceylon Burma and Malaya at 

Karachi. Funds of the Japanese 

Diplomatic Party from Iraq. 

Payments of the bills incurred in 

connection with the Japanese 

Officials in Karachi. 

Air Raid Precautions. 

Miscellaneous circulars and 

literature. 


Telegraphic Censorship to the 

Representative in India of the 

China Defence supplies. 

Transit trade to Afghanistan ------ 

Medicines for the Afghan Govt. 

purchased in the U.S.A. 

Transit trade to Afghanistan ------ 

-- Wireless spare parts for the 

Afghan Govt. from Messers. 

Marconi London. 2) Facilities for 

transit through India. of values 

and lamps of German Origin 

............. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (Part-II) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(75)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(79)-W, 

WAR 1942 


and transoport facility from Wah 

Progs., Nos. 15(161)-W, 

2301 to Peshawar for cement , required 

WAR 1942 


for the Afghan War. 

2302 


Matters relating to Switzerland- 

Swiss. 

Progs., Nos. 39(21)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2303 

Mobilization of Greeks in India. 2) 

Policy of His Majestys Govt. 

regarding conscription in United 

Kingdom of Allied Nationals fr 

services with their National for 

sservice with their national forces. 

Progs., Nos. 

1942(Secret) 

26(8)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Provision for the exercise of 

Control over Civil Telephone and 

Progs., Nos. 

2304 Telegraph facilities by certain high 

1942 (Secret) 

Military authorities in certain 

circumstance. 

19(8)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2305 

2306 

2307 

2308 

Japanese Consular Party from 

Burma. Arrangements in India in 

Connection with ---. 

Relinquishment of consular 

Progs., Nos. 

privilages by Miss. Oda to enable 

1942 Secret 

her to stay on in India with her 

brother in an internment Camp. 

Re-Inclusion of Miss. M.Oda in the 

list of Japanese Consular officials. 

6(3)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Special decrease by the Belgian 

and Czech Government in 

London, proclaiming null and void 

all measures that German 

authorities in occupation of their 


respective countries might take in 

WAR 1942 


opposition to public law, 

administrative organisation, social 

order and private rights and 

interests of citizens. (2) Decree 

by the.............. 

Postal arrangements for despatch 

of letters and parcels for 

Prisoners of War, Internees and 

Non-internees in Japan and 

Japanese occupied territories. 

Extension of Indian Red Cross 

Postal Message Service to Japan 

and certain Japanese occupied 

territories. 

Japanese internment Camp, 

PUrana Qila. Report by the 

Swedish Consul General on 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(18)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2309 

2310 

2311 

2312 

2313 

2314 

2315 

conditions in -- 2. Demand from 

the Japanese Govt. for adequate 

measures of improvement in the 

Camp. 

Foreigners Order, 1939------- 

Question of restricting residence 

of Afghans in the Punjab, North 

West Frontier Province, and the 

Kashmir State for security 

reasons. Proposed application of 

the Foreigners Order to Afghan 

subjects entering India. 

Enquiries regarding the actitivities 

of Egregio Signor Geom. Annibale 

Balocco, Teheran, Iran. 

The Police (Resignation of Officer) 

Ordinance 1942. 

Foreign office circular regarding 

means adopted by enemy agents 

to intercept conversations 

conducted between two 

individuals, either in a private 

office or by telephone, and the 

precautions which may be taken 

to defeat them. 

Question of restricting the entry 

in India of Captain Johannes 

Jacobus Van Balkom, a Dutch 

National, employed as a Pilot in 

K.L.M. air Service between 

Batavia and Lydda (Palestine). 

Air Raid Precautions. Control of 

Movements of General Nonofficial 

population in conditions 

induced by Air Raids or Invasion. 

Enlishment of Foreign National in 

A.F (I) Units proposal to amend 

the existing auxiliary force Act 

(Dropped) Enquiries instituted by 

the Consul General for 

Switzerland at Bombay regarding 

the provisions of the Swiss 

Military Penal code. 

Progs., Nos. 31(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (A) 


1942 (Secret) 

WAR 1942 

Progs., Nos. 18(25)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 59(38)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(27)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2316 

2317 

2318 

2319 

2320 

2321 

2322 

5) Request from Mr. I. Yamaguchi 

former Japanese Consular 

Bombay for payment of certain 

amounts of his privates funds to 

certain Japanese internees. 6) 

Request from certain Jap. 

Consular officials for the release 

of their private funds. 7) 

Recovery of customs dutyon two 

motor cars belonging to the 

Japanese Consul ............ 

Censorship Interceptions relating 

to Poles Greels Dutchmen and 

objects. 

India to the Chinese National 

Airways Co. and their recovery 

through the Political officer in 

Sikkim. 


WAR 1942 

1942(C) 

Progs., Nos. 39(23)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(21)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Method of dealing with questions 

requiring International settlement Progs., Nos. 

after the conclusion of an 1942(Secret) 

armistice. 

53-W, 

WAR 1942 

2. Interdepartmental Conference 

on measures to control the 

movements of Afghans and 

subjects of other limitrophe 

countries in India. 3. Application 

of the Registration of Foreigners 

Rules, 1939, to Subjects of 

limitrophe countries entering 

Progs., Nos. 31(11)-W, 

WAR 

1942 (Secret) (B) 

1942 

India on passports. 4. Question of 

excluding Afghans from certain 

prohibited areas in Assam and 

Bengal. 

Instructions, for determining 

Compensation for property 

requisitioned or acquired under 

the Defence of India, Rules. 2. 

Amendment of the requisitioning 

rules under the Defence of India 

Rules. 

Enquiries into the Status and 

activities of I. P. Noronha, 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2323 

2324 

2325 

2326 

2327 

2328 

2329 

2330 

2331 

2332 

Marmugao. 2. Activities of 

Messrs. Shaik Hussain, Shaik 

Ebrahim and Sons, Mormugao. 

The Auxiliary Fare (Amendment) 


Arrangement in connection with 

movement of allied national in 

and ex-India. 

Censorship Intercepts ---- Far 

East Trade- Copies of Intercepts 

forwarded to the Agent General 

for India in the U.S.A. at the 

request of Chief Censor. 

Review of war events. Reports 

received by the Economic adviser 

to the Govt. of India from the 

High Commissioner for India 

London. 

The Registration of Transferred 

Companies Ordinance, 1942. 

Report by the U.P. Govt. on 

Japanese Consular officials in 

Mussoorie. 

E.A.Deptt. Weekly Summaries 

from Ist January 1941 upto 29th 

July 1942. 

Censorship Interceptions - 1) 

India and Indians. 2)Ceylon. 

Air Raid Precautions. 1. Air Raid 

Intelligence and Air Raid 

Communiques. 2. Anti-gas 

measures. 3. Reporting of 

Chemical warfare information by 

the Political Officer, Sikkim, H. 

M.`s Consul General, Pondicherry 

and Consul, Nova Goa. 

Restrictions, placed on the 

departure from Indies of Mr. 

Polymerous Moschovitis, a Greek 

Evacuee from Egypt, on the 

request of Grate Govt. 

Progs., Nos. 18(38)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 26-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (Part-II) 

Progs., Nos. 1-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(54)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 39(19)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(26)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

2333 Relaxation of the rules in respect Progs., Nos. 9(4)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2334 

2335 

2336 

2337 

of the American diplomatic bag 

from commtang carried by 

persons who are not recognized 

couriers. Grant of facilities 

(Censorship etc. to properly 

documented American Courriers. 

Recruitment of personnel fa water 

transport at Basra (Iraq). 


Miscellaneous -Sinking Ethopia. 


Portugal. Portugese Possession in 

India. German and Italian crews 

in Goa. 

Export Trade Control-Afghanistan. 

Medicines etc. required for the 

Ministry of Health. Instruction to 

respect Trade customs that 

permission to export any 

commodity intended for Afghan 

Govt. or Shikats in ............. 


2339 

2340 

2341 

Detention at Deoli of Javanese 

Seamen from Ceylon who 

declined to continue work in 

Dutch vessels. 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(37)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(13)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31(13)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

(1) Defence Department`s 

request that requisitioning of 

vehicles should be carried out in 

consultation with local military 

authorities. (2) Use of civil 

transport and personnel in 

connection with defence. (3) 

Control of the distribution and use 

of Lease/Lend motor Vehicles and 

parts received from America. 

Progs., Nos. 59(16)-W, 

WAR 

1942(Secret) 

1942 

Exemption from Censorship of the 

official mails exchanged between Progs., Nos. 

the U.S.A. Consul Karachi and the 1942(Secret) 

Republic of Panama. 

9(5)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2342 Reciprocal arrangments for Progs., Nos. 26(5)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2343 

2344 

2345 

2346 

2347 

2348 

conscription of British Subjects in 1942 (Secret) 

the United State of America and 

US Citizens in the British Empire. 

2. Arrangement with certain Allied 

Govt. in London regarding 

enlistment of allied nationals in 

British Army 3. Policy regarding 

employment of aliens in Brarmy 

Exports Trade control ----- Policy 

in regard to export from India to 

different countries of motor 

vehicles and their parts. 


Allocation List(India). 

Question of the employment in 

India or Middle East of Mr. C.A.M. 

Brondgeest a Dutch national in 

China. 

Conscription of British Subjects in 

Egypt and Latin American 

Countries. 

1. The Newspaper Control Order, 

1942. 2. Amendments to the 

Newsprint Control Order, 1941. 


Telegraph Censorship to 

Netherlands Indies Trade 

Commissioner in India. 

Progs., Nos. 15(184)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(24)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 26(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(17)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Censorship Intercept----- Letter 

from the Spanish Consul at 

Bombay to Captain C. 

Pannocchia, a prisoner of War, 

enclosing another letter from 

Mons. E. F. Soprani, an internee-- Progs., Nos. 38(12)-W, 

2349 

WAR 1942 

---. Question whether prisoners of 1942 (Secret) 

war and internees held in India 

can correspond between 

themselves either direct or 

through their Protecting Power`s 

Representative. 

2350 


Interest taken by the Russian 

Progs., Nos. 39(28)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

Attache Kabul in Congress 

Bulletins. 

Administrative Instructions for the 


2351 formation of Air-Re-infacement 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Centre. 

2352 

Inquiries from the consul General 

for Sweden and Switzerland 

regarding the whereabouts of Mr. 

Asano an employee of the 

Japanese Legation at Baghdad. 

restoration of messrs. T.Oka and 

K.Asano to the Japanese 

Diplomatic party from Iraq at 

Karachi. Transfer of the Japanese 

officials from Karachi to Ajmer. 

Request from Mr. Sasamoto for 

the return of 


WAR 1942 


Japanese submarines. Reported 

presence of ----in the Arabian Sea Progs., Nos. 12(10)-W, 

2353 

WAR 1942 

and sale of provisions to them by 1942(Secret) 

fisherman from Daman. 

2354 

2355 

2356 

2357 

2358 

2359 

2360 

The Motor Vehicles (Drivers) 


Progs., Nos. 18(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Delegation of powers under rules 

49 and 78A of the defence of 

Progs., Nos. 19(13)-W, 

India, Rules to all Commanders of 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Armies, Corps, Division, Districts, 

Brigades, Areas, etc. 

Proze procedure ---- Thai 

Shipping. 

Amendments to Censorship 

Regulation India 1939. 

General treatment of the Security 

Prisoners-views of the Govt. of 

India regarding---- 

Export Yrade Control Afghanistan 

------- Iran hoops and rivers for 

biling requested by the Afghan 

Govt. 

Position of the Free-National 

movements among the nationals 

of the enemy-occupied European 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(97)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2361 

2362 

2363 

2364 

countries England, United States 

of America and Canada. Question 

whether the former Austrian 

nationals who are now serving in 

His Majesty`s forces may be 

allowed to make contact with Dr. 

Czernin`s Group Àustrian 

Action` in U.S.A. 

The Railway Air Raid Precautions 

Services Ordinance, 1942. 

Censorship Interceptions------ 

Copies of intercepts forwarded to 

the agent General for India in the 

U.S.A. at the request of the Chief 

Censer. 

Progs., Nos. 18(36)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Import Trade Control-Notifications 

issued under Section 19 of the 

Sea Customs Act. 1878-Goa 

lottery tickets. 

Progs., 

1942 

Nos. 16(7)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Authorizing Mr. Edward F.Keep, 

the representative at Calcutta of 

the British Military of Information 

to send foreign state telegrams 

enclear on in code at British 

Government rates to certain 

Specified addresses. 


WAR 1942 

1942 

Question of removing the name of 

Progs., Nos. 33(10)-W, 

2365 Djaffar Tabrizchi of Tabriz from 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

the statutory list. 

2366 

2367 

2368 

2369 

War Trade List No. 8 and Advice 



Permission to Gulam Kader, Head 

Clerk, Afghan Passport Officer, 

Peshawar, to send to Code 

telegram to Kabul. 

Japanese Military Hospital Ships 

their identifications signs etc. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Question of the search of 

Japanese Consular prenises and Progs., Nos. 

private effects of Japanese official 1942(Secret) 

family functioning in India- 

6(15)-W, 

WAR 1942 



WAR 

2370 

2371 

2372 

2373 

2374 

2375 

2376 

dropped. 

Question of the release of Iran 

Bazalwsk a Russian National, 

from internment, to Join the 

Russian Army. 

Position of Central Government 

Property and personnel vis-a-vis 

Provincial, States and French 

Indian authorities in areas 

subjected to enemy attack. 

Export Trade Control Iraq. 

Instructions egarding export of 

tea. 

consigned to persons firms, etc., 

in Netherlands East Indies. (4) 

Request from the Netherlands 

Consul General that letters of a 

commerce nature addressed to 

persons in Netherlands East 

Indies be shown to him. (5) 

Decision not to requisition 

diverted cargoes of Netherlands 

East Indies. (6) Decision by 

United Nations expressing 

their........ 

Progs., Nos. 30(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(18)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 


Supply of information regarding 

Indian Ports to the Government of 

the United States of America 

through the U.S.A. Naval Liaison 

Officers instead of U.S.A. 

Consular Officers in India. 

Progs., Nos. 59(51)-W, 

WAR 


1942 

Export Trade Control ------------ 

Amendment of open General 

License (No.3) relating to exports 

across the Land Frontiers of India 

other than the French and 

Portugese Possession in India. 


Postal Censorship to Foreign 

Consular Officers in India. 2) 

Transmission of official 

correspondence emanating from 

Mr. S.Y. Loh in the Chinese 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2377 

2378 

2379 

2380 

2381 

2382 

Consular bag from Calcutta after 

censorship. 

Visit of Mr. William C.Bullitt 

Special representative in Middle 

East of President Roosevelt to 

India. 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

1. Home departments comments 

on the various memorandam 

issued by them in connection with 

the Draft Emergency Powers 

Progs., Nos. 18(50)-W, 

Ordinance. 2. Control of the Press 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

during the war and at the time of 

the disturbances which followed 

the ban on the all India National 

Congress. 

Conscription of Dutch nationals in 

India. Request by Mr. A.G. 

Boehmer to be permitted to 

proceed to South Africa and be 

conscripted there. Prevention of 

the departure of ---- from India 

to South Africa under the 

Foreigners order 1940. ......... 

Progs., Nos. 26(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Grant and withdrawal of 

concessions under Telegraph 

Censorship to Messers H.S. Cuou, 

and T.Y. Mar, representatives of 

China Burma 

TransportAdministration 

atCalcutta and Karachi 

respectively. 2) Grant of 

concessions under Postal and 

Telegraph Censorship to the 

Regional Representatives in India 

of the Chinese ............. 


WAR 


1942 

The United Provinces Special 

armed Constabulary act 

(Extension) Ordinance, 1942. 

1. Disposal of (1) intercepted 

correspondence of private nature 

with neutral sources enquiring 

into the health and welfare of 

Individuals in enemy territories in 

Progs., Nos. 18(27)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 38(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (A) 



WAR 

2383 

2384 

the Far East ; and (2) Personal 

correspondence with persons in 

enemy and enemy Occupied 

territories in Europe, transmitted 

otherwise than through proper 

channels.---- 


Inquiries reg. Ludwign Henrich a 

German Jew and V. Gerokimates 

kunming China. 

Question of allowing Mr. jan 

Bozhidar Werecki, formerly a 

Polish diplomatic courier, to go to 

Northern Rhodesia. 


2386 

2387 

2388 

2389 

2390 

2391 

2392 

Enquiry from the Ambassador, 

Ankara. regarding news about 

Ltd. Count vittorio Gelich, Italian 

Prisoners of war in India. 

Indian Prisoners of war in Italay. 

Nurmerical Strength of ---. 

had to be sent to the Censor 

authorities to be stamped before 

onward despatch was causing 

considerable delay. 

Procedure regarding the supply of 

Steel to the Afghan Govt. and 

Shirkats. 

Progs., Nos. 39(22)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 30(15)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 15(170)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Defence of India Rule for 

controlling and winding up certain 

organizations subjects to Foreign Progs., Nos. 19(10)-W, 

WAR 1942 

influence, control, etc. Application 1942 (Secret) 

of the rule to the all India 

Forward Bloc. 

War Trade List No. 10 and advice 



Import Trade Control--- Goods 

carried on vessels chartered at 

Speculative rates. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

2393 Jiwani War Watching Station. Progs., Nos. 45-W, 1942 WAR 1942 



WAR 

2394 

2395 

2396 

2397 

2398 

2399 

2400 

2401 

2402 

Adjustment of expenditure on the 

installation of a telephone line 

between Jiwani and Jiwani War 

Watching Station. 

National War Front (movement to 

combat defeatism).---- 

Organisation etc. of------ 

Aerodrome Construction 

programme. 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(18)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Export Trade control General 

instructions and orders relating to 

Progs., Nos. 15(10)-W, 

the Scrutiny of applications for 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

exports to firms on war trade lists 

and M.E.W. G. lists. 

Cosignment of tin fa M/s. A 

Stranss &Co., Istanbul---Enquiry 

from Minister of State, Cairo, as 

to its whereabout`s etc. 

Precautionary measures to 

eliminate possible guides to 

raiding Aircraft etc., in certain 

areas, and to render more 

difficult the movement of 

parachute or Air borne troops or 

invading land forces. 

Censorships Intercepts------ 

Afghanistan -General Indian in 

Afghanistan. Foreigners in 

Afghanistan. 

Foreign Office Circular regarding 

Organization of British 

Communities abroad. 


Correspondence of professor 

Mohd. Ali (of Afghan descent) 

employed in Publicity office 

(Foreign ). 

Censorship and transmission of 

letters, etc., received in the 

External Affairs Department bags 

from other countries. 

Progs., Nos. 59(20)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(19)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Part-I) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 39(29)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 38-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) Vol. III 

2403 Question of extending certain Progs., Nos. 18(23)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2404 

2405 

2406 

2407 

2408 

central acts and Ordinances to 

the areas under the control & the 

External affairs Department. 

Export trade Control ---- Removal 

of trading restrictions with firms 

on U.K. balck lists. 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(31)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Enemy Trading ---- 

Recommendations for the Progs., Nos. 

inclusion of certain firms in the U. 1942 (Secret) 

K. War Trade Lists, etc. 

32(3)-W, 

WAR 1942 

American Affairs.--- 

Recommendations of the Inter- 

American Neutrality Commission 

for extending limit of territorial 

water from 3 to 12 miles. 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Internees from Perisa. 1. 

Enquiries from H.M`s Minister 

Tehran, regarding whereabouts 

and welfare of German and Italian 

Interness sent from Persia to 

Progs., Nos. 30(17)-W, 

India. 2. Question of sending Mrs. 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (A) 

Von Kamen adn her son Rolf to 

Aus. to enable her join her 

husband there. 3. Question of 

sending Mrs. Lina Vogel, Mrs. 

Marie Hetzhein..... 


Consul for China at Bombay to 

exchange telegrams in Cypher 

with the Chinese Foreign office 

Chungking. 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Treatment of goods consigned to 

territorries regarded as enemy 

consequent on the declaration of Progs., Nos. 

2409 

War against Japan and discharged 1942(Secret) 

at India ports from British allied 

in neutral Ships. 

14(3)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2410 

Question of securing the 

repatriation of Non-official Indians 

in Japan China Thailand Indo 

China etc. under the British 

Japanese Exchange agreement 

List of British Indians forceeding 

Progs., Nos. 

1942(Secret) 

6(24)-W, 

WAR 1942 



WAR 

2411 

2412 

2413 

2414 

2415 

2416 

to India. Ratification by Thailand 

of the Prisoners of War Consoul. 

Additions and deletions made in 

the Ships war Trade List. Office 

Memoranda from Defence Coordination 

and Defence 

Departments regarding. 

Amendments of the Defence of 

India Rules. 

H.H. the Maharaj aof Nepal`s gift 

of Cigarctter, tea, Sugar and 

biscuits to Gurkha Soldiers 

serving overseas. 

Refugees in India- Appointment o 

Refugee Officers. 

4. Request to H. M.`s Consul, 

Nova Goa, that he should consult 

the American Consul at Bombay 

before forwarding to the 

Government of India his 

recommendations for the listing 

of firms and persons in 


Progs., Nos. 17-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (B) 

Scheme for the insurance against, 

or payment of compensation for, 

war damage to immovable 

property. The War Risks 

(Factories) Insurance Ordinance, 

1942, and ammending 

ordinances. 

Progs., Nos. 18(13)-W, 

WAR 

1942 (Secret) 

1942 

Enquiries regarding the alleged 

internment of Mr. Osvaldo Forlani, Progs., Nos. 

2417 

a memebr of Maxxini Society, 1942 (Secret) 

New York. 

30(9)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2418 

Intercepted correspondence 

regarding the sale at Saigon of 

127 bales of cotton piecegoods 

consigned by the Modeliarpeth 

Cotton Mills, Pondicherry, to 

Peyrissac Comapny of Dakar and 

Marmande. 2. Instructions to the 

Controller of Enemy Trading that 

Progs., Nos. 32(14)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (A) 



WAR 

2419 

2420 

2421 

2422 

2423 

2424 

he should consult H. M.`s Consul 

General,.... 

The Special Criminal Courts 

Ordinance, 1942 : 2. The 

Penalties (Enhancement) 

Ordinance, 1942. 3. The Special 

Criminal Courts (Repeal) 


3)Difficulties anticipated by the 

Tibetan Government in getting 

their letters accepted in 

Chungking. Request of the 

Tibetan Govt. for assistance of 

the H.Ms. Embassy Chungking,in 

the matter. 4) Payment of 

charges on Tibitan Govts. mails 

by the Govt. of ........ 

and Mrs. Terese Kubik, to Aus. to 

enable them to join their 

husbands there. 

Number of Non-official Japan in 

India . Children of Japanese 

consular officers. 

Plans for the evacuation of the 

local British Community in the 

event of an invasion of Yunnan. 

2. Enquiry from H.M.`s 

Ambassador, Chungking 

regarding the Possibility of 

helping in the evacuation by 

sending one or two planes from 

India. 

Question of Stopping press 

telegrams sent by Chamanlal to 

Masoliver (masoguardia) Spainsh 

Goverment Press agency------ 

Dropped. 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(21)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 30(17)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) (B) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 27(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Import Trade Control-Admission 

into India of American Cargoes Progs., Nos. 

2425 

which have arrived in Indian ports 1942 (Secret) 

as destinations in the Far East. 

16(5)-W, 

WAR 1942 

2426 Question of Black-listing Progs., Nos. 33(6)-W, WAR 1942 



WAR 

2427 

2428 

2429 

2430 

2431 

2432 

2433 

2434 

Natevidade Viegas and Messrs. R. 

A. Viegas and Co., Margao 

(Portuguese India). 

1942 (Secret) 


Progs., Nos. 39(25)-W, 

Egypt and affairs relating thereto. 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

2) Palestine. 

The Collective Fines Ordinance, 

1942. 

The Indian Soldiers (Letigation) 

Amendment Ordinance, 1942. 

Progs., Nos. 18(29)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 

Progs., Nos. 18(18)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Policy of His Majestys Govt. to 

Progs., Nos. 26(14)-W, 

assist the Allied Govt. by indirect 

WAR 1942 


means to mobilize their nationals. 

Question of the grant of code and 

cypher facilities to Mr. Thomas T. 

Eoyang Representaives of the 

Chinese national Resources 

Commission Karachi. 

Reports of the visits of the 

Delegates of the International 

Red Cross Committee to the 

Prisoners of war and Internment 

Camps in India and enemy 

European Countries. 2. 

Instructions, from H.M.G to the 

effect that I.R.C.C. Delegates 

should received monthly strength 

returns of German and Italian 

Prisoners of war Camps. 

Transmission of messages to His 

Majesty`s Consul, Nova Goa, 

regarding the death of personnel 

who served in the East African 

Command. (2) Petition from Mr. 

A. Rodrigues, father of the late 

mechanic J.P. Rodrigues, East 

African Army Service Corps. 

Grant question of accomodation 

of an Japanese Cansular parties 

from Singapur Colombo, Iraq & 

Abyssinia along with Consular 

Officials in India. Cost of 

Progs., Nos. 10(24)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(56)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 



WAR 

2435 

2436 

2437 

2438 

2439 

2440 

maintenance of the Japanese 

Consular Party in Mussoorie. 

Disposal of their private & official 

funds etc. Transfer of Mr. Chikara 

Suzuki & Mr & Mrs. Fuzimats 

Kumagai from Japanese 

Inernment Camp New Delhi to 

Mussoorie. 

Censorships Intercepts------ 

Afghanistan Afghanistan-General, Progs., Nos. 

economic, trade etc. Foreigners in 1942(Part-II) 

Afghanistan. 

39(3)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Air Raid Precautions------ 


Imposition of lighting restrictions 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

in French Establishments in India. 

Division of responsibility between 

police and military during war. (2) 

Question of providing more arms 

for police forces in North West 

Frontier and Baluchistan States. 

(3) Attitude of the Public towards 

enemy parachutists or air borne 

or invasion troops. (4) Expansion 

of the Armed Police of Indian 

States. 

Question of withdrawing postal 

and telegraph Censorship 

Privileges from Mons. in respect 

of his correspondence with Franch 

and Vichy Colonies. 

Despatch of Foreign telegrams by 

wireless- request to all Foreign 

Consular Officers in India to use 

high grade cypher to avoid 

interceptions. (2) Request from 

the Consul for Egypt at Bombay 

to send his cypher telegrams by 

cable and not by Wireless-- 

(Rejected). 

Question of finding employment 

in India for Mr. Adrian Vallance, 

formerly a employed as a British 

Conuncil man in Iraq & later in 

Progs., Nos. 59(39)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 10(23)-W, 

WAR 1942 



WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2441 

2442 

2443 

2444 

2445 

2446 

Bahrain. 2. Scheme for counterpropaganda 

in furtherance of 

British Interests in Eruope at the 

end of the War. 

War Legislation - Amendment to 

the War Risks (Goods) Insurance 

Ordinance, 1940, (Ordinance No. 

IX of 1940). 

Export trade Control---------- 

Afghanistan -------- Purchase in 

and export from India of Textile 

Mill stores for Afghanistan. 

Question of the utilization of the 

services of Mr. Raikich a Fugslaw 

ex-naval officer from China. 

The Civil Services (Conditions of 

Service) Ordinance, 1942. 

Censorships Interceptions------ 1) 

Persian Gulf. 2) Iraq. 

Control on exports of rice from 

the province of Sind to any place 

in India outside that Province. 

2447 Scheme for labour propaganda. 

2448 

2449 

2450 

2451 

Import Trade Control----------- 

Notifications relating to 

Prohibition of import into India of 

certain goods from any place 



Letters to and from D.S. Gill. 2) 

Enquiry from the Swiss consul 

General at Bombay regarding the 

International Migration Service 

Geneva. 

Question of disposal of baby 

typewriters for Mr. Keel, a Swiss 

National formerly at Kabul. 

Concessions granted to the 

American Consul at Karachi and 

Madras under telegraph 

Censorship to send outward 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(38)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 26(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(41)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 


1942(Secret) 

WAR 1942 

Progs., Nos. 15(112)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(23)-W, 

WAR 1942 


Progs., Nos. 16-W, 1942 WAR 1942 

Progs., Nos. 39(26)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 



WAR 

2452 

2453 

2492 

2493 

foreign telegrams to the 

telegraphic address Usnavcom, 

Washington with or without a 

signature indication. 

Declaration by the Allied 

Governments condemning 

German policy of exterminating 

Jews in Europe. 

Progs., Nos. 59(62)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

1. Request of the Japanese 

Consular officials at Musoorie for 

permission to visit Japanese 

internees in India before their 

departure for Japan .Negatived.2) 

Progs., Nos. 

Transmission of letters addressed 

1942(A) 

to certain Kapanese Consular 

officials at Mussoorie. 3) Teansfer 

of officials Japanese Consular 

funds by the 

provincialGovernment to ...... 

6(12)-W, 

WAR 1942 

including correspondence from 

private individuals to 

Progs., Nos. 10(15)-W, 

WAR 1942 

Ambassadore and other of Similar 1942(Secret)(B) 

status. 

Location of certain Japanese 

Consular officials in the Purana 

Qila Internment Camp, New 

Delhi. 2. Supply to the Secretary 

of States of a list of Japanese 

Consular officials in India awating 

repatriation. 

2494 Only slip is available 

2495 

2496 

Note on the Censorship 

arrangements in the Persian Gulf 

(January 1942). 

Policy pursued in regard to the 

censorship of the correspondence 

of the German and Italian Crews 

at Goa- with their Homeland and 

with Mr. C. Huber, delegate in 

India of the International Red 

Cross Committee of Geneva. 


WAR 1942 

1942 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 


WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 38(11)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 



WAR 

2497 

2498 

2499 

Notifications regarding enemy 

firms issued by the Defence Coordination 

Department, under the 


Policy to be followed in respect of 

enemy Foreigners in the 

``threatened`` areas. 

Export Trade Control---- 

Afghanistan ------- 1. Goods. 

required for the Shirkate-Pushtun 

Kandaahar. Refusal to meet the 

Afghan requirmentof motor spare 

parts from India. 

2500 Lessons learned during Air Raids. 

2501 

2502 

2454 

2455 

2456 

Japanese consular party from 

Addis Ababa (Abyssinia) 

Progs., Nos. 33-W, 1942 

WAR 1942 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 52-W, 1942 WAR 1942 

Progs., Nos. 15(166)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(24)-W, 

WAR 1942 

1942 (Secret) 


WAR 1942 

1942 Secret 

Censorship of telegrams 

emanating from Chandernagar by 

the local French Censors. 

Censorship of terminal mails 

(other than British official mails) 

exchanged between Pondicherry 

and countries outside British India 

Progs., Nos. 

1942(Secret) 

10(2)-W, 

WAR 1942 

at Poundicherry by the Censors of 

Frewnch India. 

Export Trade Control..... Exports 

by Post. 

Censorship Interception..... 1. 

Chian and Chinese 2. Tibet and 

Tibetians. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Letters from 

Walter N. Dutschler, a Passenger 

Ex Teia Muru the Japanese 

Repatriation Ship. 

Progs., Nos. 15(13)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(44)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Internal Affairs Committee. 

Minutes and papers connected 

Progs., Nos. 59(50)-W, 

2457 with the meetings of the ---- 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Statements made by Home Deptt. 

Information and Broadcasting 



WAR 

2458 

2459 

2460 

2461 

2462 

2463 

Dept. about their views Internal 

propaganda. Statement by D.M.I. 

on policy followed as regards 

India in Broadcasts to Japanese 

troops and Indian Language 

broadcasts to Indians in Enemy 

occupied territories. 

Appeal by her Excellence Lady 

Linlithgow to the Rullers of India 

States for Funds for Red Cross 

Purposes. 

War Trade List No-12 and Advice 

Notes thereto. M.E. W.G. List No- 

9 and Suppliments thereto. 


(Governors Power and Functions) 

Ordiance , 1943. 

The Subversive Activities 

Ordiance, 1943. 

Conscription of Netherlands 

Subjects employed in the Indian 

Sugar Industry. 


China and Chinese. 2. Tibet and 

Tibetians. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 18(45)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 28(13)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 42(8)(Part- 

WAR 1943 

IV)-W, 1943 Secret 

1. Amendment to the Motor Sprit 

Retioning Order,1941. 2. Increase Progs., Nos. 18(14)-W, 

2464 

WAR 1943 

in the Supply of Petrol to Sikkim 1943(Secret) 

State. 

2465 

2466 

2467 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Matters relating 

to Switzerland and Swiss. 

Question of Disposal of the 

neutral Newspaper intercepted in 

Censorship , containing 

advertisements of various 

enemies and Statutory Listed 

enemies. 

Scheme for the pre-censorship of 

documents of Travellers 

proceeding out of British India by 

land, air, or sea. (2) Supply of 

Progs., Nos. 42(20)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(2) -W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(18)-W, 

WAR 1943 




WAR 

2468 

2469 

2470 

2471 

2472 

2473 

2474 

2475 

2476 

notices in Persian regarding precensorship 

at Quetta to the 

Iranian Consul General for 

distribution to intending travellers 

to Persian. (3) Authorities granted 

by E.A. Department to certain 

Govt. officials........... 

The Essential Services (Telephone 

Employees) Ordiance , 1943. 

Request from German Minister at 

Kabul for sending certain article 

to Herr Arthur Beyer, German 

Interned at Dehra Dun. 

Nominal Rolls of Prisoners of War 

and missing belonging to areas 

and States Under the Externam 

Affairs Department. 

of Govt. of India and (ii) that in 

case of Afghan for repairs 

Previous Permission of the Govt. 

of India is not necessary. 


WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(51)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(B) 

Export of woollen Cotton and 

piecegoods and indigo to China by 


over land route via Tibet by 

WAR 1943 

1943 Confidential 

Messrs. Hen Sun Kun Company 

Kalimpong. 

The Military Operational 

Area(Special Powers) Ordiance, 

1943. 

Progs., Nos. 18(35)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Censorship Interceptions......1. 

Netherland & the Dutch 2. Progs., Nos. 42(12)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Belgium and Belgians 3. Denmark 1943(Secret) 

and Danes. 



Tibetians. 

Exemption the factories and 

Goods belonging to the United 

States Govt. from the Risk s 

(Factories) Insurance Ordiance 

and the war risks (goods) 

Insurance Ordiance. 


WAR 1943 

VIII)-W, 1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(32)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 



WAR 

2477 

2478 

2479 

2503 

2504 

2505 

2506 

2507 

2508 

Question of Exemption of 

American technical personnel 

employed by the Hindustan 

Aircraft Ltd., from the Mysore 

State Income-Tax. 

Question of the grant of an 

Emergency Commission to Mr. 

J.J.Lawson an Employee of the 

Bahrain Petroleum Company 

Limited. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......matters relating 

to Ethiopia , Eritrea and Italian 

Somaliland. 

Provision ofa Passages for the 

United Kingdom to Mr. Arne 

Hinswerk a Norwegian Civil 

Engineer to enable him to join the 

Norwegian Forces in the United 

Kingdom. 

Press Control-- Press Instruments 

for war . Amendments to Preso 

Notice contained in the Press 

Instructions for War. 

Question of the release of 2nd Lt. 

Michalopoulo from the Indian 

Army for employment as Liaison 

Officer between the Greek Govt. 

and British Authoirities in Egypt. 


WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

194 secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(14)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 28(10)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

194 secret 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Persian Gulf 

Enquiry from the Political 

Resident in Persian Gulf regarding Progs., Nos. 42(41)-W, 

WAR 1943 

the requerment of censorship 1943(Secret) 

reports. 2. Intercept relating to 

Gwadur Trade 3. Censorship 

arrangement in the Persian Gulf. 


Progs., Nos. 18(20)-W, 

(Limitation of Dividend) Ordiance, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

1943. 

Enquiry from the Indian Agency 

General , Changking about 


WAR 1943 

1943 



WAR 

2509 

conseription of Europian British 

Subjects including Derminion 

Nationals in India, Exemption of 

certain Mussienaries employed by 

the China Inland Mission , 

changking and certain Europian 

British Subjects in China for 

Military Service in India. 

Import Trade control............. 

Cancellation of Open General 

Licence No-1 and tightening of 

Import Export Procedure for 

Goods in transit to Afghanistan. 

2510 Passages for Polish Volunteers. 

2511 

2512 

2513 

2514 

2515 

2516 

Suspected misuse of consular and 

diplomatic bags and pouches. (2) 

Request to the Spanish Consul to 

send letters to internees and 

parolees in India c/o Prisoners of 

War Censor Station, Bombay. 

The War Injuries (Compensation 

Insurance) Act Scheme and 

Rules, 1943. 

Contribution from H.E. the 

Viceroys War Purposes Fund to 

the Aid to Russia Fund, London. 

Proposed Donation of 100,000 

dollars by the Labour Unions of 

the U.S.A. for the grant of Indian 

Labour. Readiness of the National 

Relief Fund of the U.S.A. of 

Consider some form of relief for 

Indian Soldiers. 

Proposed issue of identity Cards 

to Civil officers Coming into 

Contact with Military Officers. 

(1) Complaint from the China 

Relations Officer, Calcutta, 

regarding the appearance in an 

Indian Censorship General 

Intelligence Report of an extract 

Progs., Nos. 16(10)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(29)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(44)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59-W, 1943 

WAR 1943 

Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2517 

2518 

2519 

2520 

2521 

from Mr. Richardson`s letter to a 

friend at Barisal. (2) Orders to 

Censor Stations in India regarding 

exclusion of letters written by 

Government Officials from 

censorship summaries. 

Postal parcels to the West African 

Forces in India Containing war 

Comforts. Reciprocity by the West 

African Govts. in regard to the 

Indian troops. 

Progs., Nos. 59(55)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Instructions to Censor authorities 

regarding the transfer to Bombay 

and Calcutta of the censorship 

facilities already granted to the Progs., Nos. 11(10)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Norwegian Consulate General and 1943(Secret) 

the Norwegian Consulate 

consequent on the transfer of 

their places of location. 


from the Defence and War 

Department about matters 

concerning and war Departments 

about concerning the Prisoners of 

war in India. 


China and Chinese. 2. Tiebt and 

Tibetian. 

Formation of a committe to 

consider the treatment of British 

Diplomatic and Consular Staff by 

the Japanese. (2) Enquiry from 

the Secretary of State for India 

regarding treatment of Japanese 

Consular Staff and archives in 

India. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

V)-W, 1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


Letter from Miguel Angel Olano, 

Bishop of Guam, regarding his 

Progs., Nos. 42(40)-W, 

2522 detention and the treatment 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

meted out to him by the Japanese 

authorities in Japan and Guam. 2. 

Decision that all censorship 



WAR 

2523 

2524 

2525 

2526 

2527 

2528 

2529 

2530 

2531 

material of interest to the United 

States authorities is to 

transmitted through Blanketing. 



from the chief Censor , India. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Africa and 

Africans. 

Enquiry by the German Legation, 

Kabul through the Afghan Govt., 

wheather they would be allowed 

to Send letters and Other articles 

to German internees and 

Prisoners of ar in India through 

the British Legation, Kabul. 

Restrictions on Export of Spices , 

Pepper and Other commodities. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(33)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 15(74)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Transmission of letters received 

through the British Agency, 

Chungking to Mr. J.A. Rikli. 2. 

Cebsor Intercept relating to the 

Progs., Nos. 41(14)-W, 

WAR 

1943(Secret) 

1943 

I.R. C.C. Corespendence cheqking 

India. 

1.Question of cancelling directions 

made by Proviential Govts. Under 

Defence of India Act 2(5) so far 

as Defence Rules 26(1)(b) is 

concerned.2. Question of 

reviewing detention Orders 

Passed by officers Sub-ordinate to 

Proviential Governments. 


WAR 


1943 

Iron Wire for replacement of 

Babusar Chilas telephone. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Allocation List 

(India) 

The Military Nursing Services 

(India) ordiance, 1943. 

Progs., Nos. 59(27)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 42(17)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(33)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

transmission of certain Papers 


2532 received by bag from the Military 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Attache, British Legation, Kabul to 



WAR 

2533 

2534 

2535 

2536 

2537 

2538 

2539 

2540 

2541 

2542 

Lt. Col. Edger Officer 

Commanding, Radio Security 

Company, I.W. I.S. , G.H.Q, New 

Delhi. 

Synopsis of the minutes of the 

meetings of the foreign publicity 

Control Board for submission to 

H.E. the Viceroy. 

Delisting Braganca, Braganca and 

Co Fornato Braganca and 

Augustine Braganca , all of Nova 

Goa. 2. Examination of the 

questions Wheather address 

H.M.s Consul , Nova Goa , Direct 

in Such cases. 

Inclusion of the Names of victor 

Carvalho of Neura , Goa, in the 

Black List. 

Arrangements for Medical 

Examination of Ms. B. Kaplanek 

and J. Trcka two Czechoslovak 

nationals 2. Decision regarding 

free medical examination of 

Czech Volunteers by the Military 

authorities. 

Export Trade control - 

Afghanistan..... Goods requaired 

for the Shirket -i- Barq (Afghan 

Electric Company. 

Tightening up of control Over 

Sulpher under the Defence of 

India Rules. 

Export Trade control Afghanistan 

Sugar. 

Air Raid Precautions.Policy in 

regard to Camouflage Measures. 

Far Eastern Bureau Fortnightly 

Intelligence Reports. 

Censorship of mails between 

Quetta and Chaman and Quetta 

and Nokkundi. Enquiry whether 

decision regarding...........has 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 28(17)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 15(100)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(22)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

194 Most Secret 


WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 11(24)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 



WAR 

2543 

2544 

2545 

2546 

2547 

2548 

2549 

been communicated to the public. 

(2) Request to the Baluchistan 

Administration to take suitable 

action in cases where as a result 

of the .........persons are found to 

be breaking laws and orders. 

3. Exchange of Prisoners of War 

and Civilians Internees between 

the British Empire and Germany. 

Progs., Nos. 31(15)-W, 

WAR 1943 


Export Trade Control, 

Afghanistan. Goods requaired for 

the Shirkat -i-nagshbandi, Kabul . 

(ii) Boots requaired for the 

Afghan Army.(iii) Advise to the 

Afghan Government to Set up 

their own treasuries and to make 

their own boots. 

Progs., Nos. 15(62)-W, 

WAR 

1943 

1943 

Question of relaxing the lighting 

restrictions imposed in the French Progs., Nos. 49(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 

and Portuguese Possessions in 194 secret 

India. 

Forwarded Programmee of civil 

Imports into India, Afghanistan 

and Persian Gulf for Purpose of 

allotment of Shipping Space . 

Discontinuance of the Supply of 

Forwarded Programmee which do 

not concern the External Affairs 

Department. 

War Trade Lists NO-15 and advice 

Notes thereto. 


Portugal. Portuguese Possessions 

in India 2. German and Italian 

Crew and Italian Crews in Goa. 

Foriegners in Afghanistan------ 

Admission into India on 

humanitarian grounds of certain 

foreigners from Afghanistan viz 

Messrsa. E.Ants A.Kirstukas , 

E.Kandi,A.Laoniste ,E.Kurn, 

R.Grassman, V.Kont., E.Kristall 

and J.Johental. Question of their 

Progs., Nos. 16(15)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


1943(Secret) 

WAR 1943 

Progs., Nos. 42(5(II))-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

194 secret(A) 



WAR 

employment Decision to 

accomodate them in a British 

Evacuees Camp in India if 

unemployed. Adjustment of 

Expenditure on them. 

Message from the British Prime 

Minister to President Roosevelt on Progs., Nos. 59(25)-W, 

2550 

WAR 1943 

the Occasion of the anniversary of 1943 Secret 

Japan`s raid on Pearl Harbour. 

2551 

2552 

2553 

2554 

2555 

2556 

2557 

Passage and rail facilities for 

Belgian Volunteers . Question of 

exempting M/s Desmet, Deguide 

and Notaert, employees of the 

Indian Steel and Wire Products 

Ltd., from Military Services. 

Corection lists containing 


India Act, 1939 and the Rules 

made there under. 


Japan and Japanese 2. Siam and 

Siamese. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(25)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Instructions Progs., Nos. 42(37)-W, 

WAR 1943 

regarding discloser of Information 1943(Secret) 

obtained in Censorship. 

Installation of Airport Security 

Sections at Ariports in India. 

Despatch by Afghan Govt. to 

India of Mr. V.Selionka with 

permission of the Govt. of 

India.Decision not to send him 

back to Afghanistan on 

humanitarian grounds and to 

accommodate him in a Evacuee 

Camp. Question of his 

Employment in the Polish Army. 

Memorandum by Sir Edward 

Villiers on what can be done to 

improve and extend the publicity 

value of Indian news reel items 

and Indian Shorts 

Progs., Nos. 55-W, 1943 

WAR 1943 

Secret 


WAR 1943 

194 secret(B) 


WAR 1943 

1943 



WAR 

2558 

2559 

2560 

2561 

2562 

2563 

2564 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Letter from Rui 

de Menezes, Bicholim , Goa to Dr. 

Dr. Fernando Pinto de Menezes , 

Belgaum , regarding an alleged 

divorced wife ofa Japanese who 

came to Goa on the Exchange 

Ship. 

Progs., Nos. 42(42)-W, 

WAR 

1943(Secret) 

1943 

Offer by Drs. Bedri Ruhselman 

and Sevil Akay -- two Turkish 

Doctors in Kabul- to join the 

British Medical Services for the 

duretion of the War. 

Question of recovery from the 

funds, if any, of Italian Consulate 

at Bombay, the sum of 

Rs.20,000/- being the balance 

payable by that Consulate to 

Messrs Lloyd Trienstino, Bombay. 


correspondence of enemy aliens 

at liberty who are recruited to 

H.M`s forces and Medical 

services. 

1.Question of employment of Mr. 

L. Van Gelder as a commissioned 

Officer in the Royal Air Force 2. 

Exemption from Military services 

of Mr. L.Van Geldar to enable him 

to Take up an appointment with 

Rampur Maize Products Limited, 

Rampur. 

The Enemy Agents Ordiance, 

1943. 


Telegrams fro I.R.C.C. Geneva to 

Mons, Huber, Simla regarding 

monetary help to the German 

families regarding Goa. 2. Letters 

from Capt. Lindemann to Mr. J.A. 

Rikli regarding list of the Crew of 

S.S. Anfora who wers without 

news from their families. 

Progs., Nos. 20-W, 1943 WAR 1943 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(10)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

Exemption from Military service of 


2565 certain Czech nationals employed 

WAR 1943 

1943 

in War production in India. 

2566 

2567 

2568 

2569 

2570 

2571 

2572 

Proposal for removal from the 

M.E.W.G. List of the names of M/s 

Andrade E.Sa., Nova Goa. 2. 

Exmination of the Position in 

regard to the Listed Firms in 


Procedure for adjustment of 

compenstion for Property 

requisitioned Under the Defence 

of India Rules for United States 

Forces in India. 2. Instructions 

regarding or acquiring Property 

Under the defence of India Rules. 

3. Co-ordination of requisting of 

Lands , Buildings etc. 

Permission given to Foreign 

Consular Officers in India to 

exchange telegrams in code or 

abbreviated addresses. 

Discontinuance of the watch over 

the movements and interception 

of the correspondence of M.Yusaf 

Ali Jaferji suspected of pro- 

Japanese activities. 


Arabia and Arabs 2. Saudi 

Arabia3. Aden. 



Tibetians. 

Exchange of Wounded and Sick 

Prisoners of war and of Protected 

Personals between Italy and great 

Britain Under the Provisions of 

International Prisoners of war 

Conversion. Question regarding 

examination of Sick and 

woundered Japanese Prisoners of 

war by mixed Medical 

Commission. 

Progs., Nos. 35(15)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(19)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

I)-W, 1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2573 

2574 

2575 

2576 

2577 

2578 

2579 

2580 

2581 

Review of War events.----Reports 

received by the Economic Adviser 

to the Government of India from 

the High Commissioner for India, 

London. 

Persian Gulf Contraband 

Control..... Statements of Import 

and Exports of main 

Commoedities. 

Enquiry by the Agent General for 

India Washington regarding 

exodus of population and 

industrial workers from Calcutta 

as a result of Japanese air raids. 

Revised Ration scale to be applied 

in respect of Japanese prisoners 

of war all ranks and internees in 

troop transports. 

Request from the Chinese 

Commissioner from permission to 

Chinese nationals in India to 

exchange telegrams in plain 

Chinese code with China. 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49-W, 1943 

WAR 1943 

Most Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(60)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(36)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Applications from Ettore Seesi 

and Michele Vittorio Augusto 

Danieli, Italians in Goa, for safe 

Progs., Nos. 

conduct through India. Treatment 

1943(Secret) 

of Italian merchant Seamen in 

Goa in the evet of their escapting 

to British India. 

5-W, 

WAR 1943 

Release from Internment of Capt. 

Jean Romano to enable him to 

join the Fighting French 

Mercantile Marines and 

transmission of a Red Cross 

message to him. 

Export of Charcoal and other 

goods from Goa to Basrah. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......1.Persian Gulf 

2.Iraq. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 60(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

2582 3. Instructions by the British Progs., Nos. 41(11)-W, WAR 1943 



WAR 

2583 

2584 

2585 

2586 

2587 

2588 

Ambassador to the members of 

his staff and to every British 

Official Organisation in China to 

avoid to wite or to disclose any 

reference to official information , 

Official Activities or on conditions 

in China. 


Japanese Atrociates . Question of 

Giving Publicity to Japanese 

Progs., Nos. 31(13)-W, 

treatment of Prisoners of War and 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

inhabitant s of occupied 

territories. 

Japan-Observations of Mr. E.S. 

Krishnamoorthy, late Indian 

Governments Trade 

Commissioner, regarding 

conditions and treatment of 

British Officials in ------- 

2. Discloser of Military 

Information by Mr. J.A. Orchard 

unming (China) in his Private 

Letter. Request to H.Ms Consul 

General, Kunning to Mr. Orchard 

to Use more discretion. 3. Bag 

service between the Canadian 

Legation in Chungking and 

Canada. 

The Parole Centers Ordiance, 

1943. 

Arrival in India of High Powered 

transmitters. 

Agreements between H.M.G. and 

the Govt.of India on the one hand 

and the Mexican Govt. on the 

other for the reciprocal exemption 

from compulsory military service 

of Mexican Citizens in U.K. India 

and Certain Other Empire 

Countries and of British Subjects 

and British protected persons 

belonging to those countries in 

Mexico. 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 18(21)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943 

2589 1.The Sugar (Temporary Excise Progs., Nos. 18(49)-W, WAR 1943 



WAR 

Duty) Ordiance, 1943. 2. 1943(Secret) 

Question of applying the Ordiance 

to British Baluchistan 

restrospective effect. 

1.Private Letters sent other wise 

than by post from China and 


2590 Intercepted in India. Transmission 

WAR 1943 


ofa Private Letters from China in 

C.N.A.C. Service Bag. --- 

2591 

2592 

2593 


Portugal... Portuguese 

Possessions in India 2. Germman 

and Italian Crews at Goa. 3. 

Question of release of the 

Correspondence of the Spanish 

Consul , Bombay , relating to the 

Italians in Goa and Diu. 

1. Supplies of Petrol to 

Afghanistan Under the Quota 

System. 2. Question of Supplying 

the quantities of Motors and 

Avaition Spirits short drawn by 

the Afghan Petrolium Company. 

Export of Cotton yarn and 

piecegoods to Abyssinia. 

2594 Weekly publicity Reports. 

2595 

2596 

2597 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(32)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Request from teh U.S. Federal 

Communications Commission to 

station, at New Delhi, an editor 

trained in the monitoring work of 

Progs., Nos. 

the foreign broadcasting 

1943(Secret) 

intelligence service of the 

Commission, to work with F.E.B`s 

monitoring operations and report 

direct to Washington. 

3(7)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Minutes of the Inter- 

Departmental supply Committee Progs., Nos. 59(58)-W, 

WAR 1943 

for screening demands competing 1943 Secret 

with civil supplies in India. 

Complaint by the Defence 

Department regarding the Delay 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

in Submission to that Department 

of destruction certificates in 

respect of War Trade Lists and 

M.E.W.G. Lists. 

Notes on outward press messages 


2598 of political interest seen in 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Censorship. 

2599 

2600 

2601 

2602 

2603 

2604 

2605 

Report by D.I.B. about Mrs. 

Frances Elice Bracher wife of Mr. 

Bracher British member of Staff 

of H.M.`s Embassy Moscow and 

now going to Lourenco Marques 

as Consular officer. 

Progs., Nos. 59(37)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Supplies to the Czech Army unit 

in Russia. Request from the Czech 

Consul Bombay for export Progs., Nos. 

licences and Purchase assistance. 1943 Secret 

Policy regarding supplies to Czech 

Army units in Russia. 

59(7)-W, 

WAR 1943 


the Netherlands at Calcutta for 

information in regard to the 

Political reliability of Abdul 

Quddus Sumatry---a Netherlands 

East Indies Subeject---in 

connection with his employment 

as an emergency commissioned 

officer in the Netherlands Forces. 

The Hoarding and Profiteering 

Prevention Ordiance, 1943. 

Supplies to Foreign territories in 

India. Supplies of Kerosene of Oil 

and Petrol for Diu. 


Czechoslovaia and Czechs 2. 

Greece and Grees. 

1. Censorship and transmission to 

Private letters etc. sent External 

Affairs Department gabs to and 

from Other countries. 2. Decision 

that the correspondence of 

Rulling Princess of India States 

Progs., Nos. 59(33)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(46)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(21)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2606 

2607 

2608 

2609 

2610 

2611 

2612 

Passing through bags should not 

be cansored. 

1. Request of the Afghan Govt. 

for import of two old Cinema 

machine for repairs in India and 

Progs., Nos. 15(51)-W, 

to re export them after repairs. 2. 

WAR 1943 

1943(A) 

Decision that(i) no Afghan goods 

for repairs be admitted into India 

without Authority --- 



Tibetians. 

Air Riad Precautions. 

Miscellaneous circulars issued by 

Civil defence and Labour Deptt. 

on Air Raid Precautions. 

Discontinuance of supply of 

circulars on A.R.P.in factories to 

the External Affair Deptt. 

Proposed transfer elseswhere of 

surplus stirrup pumps act 

required in the Gilgit agency. 

Export Trade control ... 

Afghanistan ... goods requaired 

by the Afghan Ministry of Public 

Works. 

Report by the Essential Services 

Officer attached to the Chief 

Adviser Factory A.R.P. on lighting 

in Industry for war production in 

India. Data regarding the power 

resources and standards of 

lighting in Class I Factories in 

India. 

Disposal of Boos etc. taken 

fromenemy Subjects on their 

arrest for internment or re 

internment. 2. Disposal of 

Property belonging to intervues 

and Parolus which an in the 

costoy of the Civil authority. 

Policy regarding disposal of 

Medical Equipment and stores in 


WAR 1943 

VII)-W, 1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

194 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 32(8) -W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(20)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 



WAR 

2613 

2614 

2615 

2616 

2617 

2618 

the event of Invasion. 

1. Question of the enforcing in 

Indian States the Provisions of 

the freezing orders issued by the 

Govt. of India from Time to Time. 

2. Notification issued by the Sikim 

Progs., 

State providing for the application 

1943 

to that State of all the General 

orders made by the Central 

Government and Other Central 

authorities Under the Defence of 

India Rules. 

Nos. 26(3)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1. Communicaton with Prisoners 

of War and Civilian internees of 

allied Administrations interned 

abroad.2. Despatch of the U.K. of 

Parcels containing gifts and 

articles which are not gifts. 

of war in India and their families 

in Italy, (ii) British subjects in 

India and their relatives who may 

be either interned or prisoners of 

war in Italy, and (iii) persons at 

liberty in India and persons 

whether interned or prisoner of 

war or at liberty in Italy and vice 

versa. (3) Position regarding 

Vatican Message Scheme 

in............... 

Air Restrictions.----Instructions 

regarding prohibited areas of 

Aircrafts Corridors for approach 

and flying restrictions in India. 




Censors permits for transmission 

by post of certain classes of 

postal articles to neutral 

countries. Supply of `permit 

books` to Foreign Consular 

Officers in India. 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

2619 M.E.W. Booklet on ----The Axis Progs., Nos. 59(45)-W, WAR 1943 



WAR 

2620 

2621 

2622 

2623 

2624 

2625 

and Smuggling 1943 Secret 

Enquiry as to Wheather agah 

Enayatullah Feez, Basra is 

identical with the Black Listed 

Enaytollah Fayez Tehran. 

Export Trade control -Afghan . 

Iron hops and baling loiri for the 

Afghan Govt. 

Censorship Interceptions......Jews 

and jewish State. The Case of 

Europian Jews by Herman 

Fuerenberg Palestine. 

Quetta Censor`s report regarding 

Commercial Intelligence on the 

Indo-Afghan Boundary. 

Progs., Nos. 35(16)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(94)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(30)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(54)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

1. Restriction under the Defence 

of India Rules on Proceeding from 

British India toa destination 

Outside India. 2. Notification 

issued in the behalf by the Kalat 

and Las Bala States in respect of 

their territories. 

Progs., 

1943 

Nos. 19(9)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Letter from J.J. 

Singh , President , India League 

of America, New Work to certain 

Editor of Newspapers in India. 

Progs., Nos. 42(31)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Contraband Control in the Persian 

Gulf.... Extension of Navicerts and Progs., 

2626 

certificates of Origin and Interest 1943 

system to Iraq and Iran. 

Nos. 23(2)-W, 

WAR 1943 

2627 The Drugs Control Order, 1943. 

2628 

2629 

Censorship Interceptions.Reports 

from the chiefs Censor, India. 1. 

Weekly report on India 2. 

Fortnightly Report on Europe and 

America 3. Fortnightly Report on 

the Far East, Middle East and 

Africa. 

Question of requisitioning, under 

the Defence of India Rules, a 

Progs., Nos. 18(50)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(24)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2630 

2631 

2632 

2633 

2634 

2635 

2636 

typewriter belonging to the 

former Italian Consulate General 

at Bombay and at present under 

the custody of the Spanish Consul 

at Bombay. 

Detention Orders under Defence 

Rules 26. 4.Decision that H.E. s 

approval Should be obtained in all 


cases before any Detention 

WAR 1943 


Orders Under rule 26 of the 

Defence of India Rules are issued 

by E.A. Department. 

Request by Afghan Ambassador, 

Ankara for facilities for sending to 

President of Afghan Parliament 

two Boxes containing Bayer Progs., Nos. 15(72)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Insulin, imported from Germany. 1943(A) 

Request refused on the ground 

that the Insulian could bemade 

available from India. 

Export Trade---- Afghanistan 

Cotton Price good. 

Letters to Indian Prisoners of War 

in Europe from their relatives in 

India. Position in regard to 

Soldiers from Nepal. 

Progs., Nos. 15(14)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31(12)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Conscription of balgian nationals 

in India Press communique issued 

by the Belgian Consul General at 

Bombay, calling up Belgian 

nationals of the 1920, 1921, 1944 

classes. 

Progs., Nos. 28(11)-W, 

WAR 

1943 

1943 

Instructions to the Censor station 

Belgaum to forward Red Cross 

Messages for Mr. G.T.Antipas the 

Greek Agent of Messrs. Ralli 

Brothers , Mormugao through His 

Majesty`s Consul Nova Goa. 

Priorities for Defence Service 

Projects Constructions of 

Aerodromes etc. 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

2637 Only Slip. Progs., Nos. 42(28)-W, WAR 1943 



WAR 

2638 

Amendments to the Enemy 

Foreigners Order 1939 and 


Delegation of Powers Under 

Clause (c) of Sub Section(2) of 

Section 3 of Foreigners Act 1940 

to Authorities Under External 

Affairs Departments. 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(13)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Air Raid Precautions.Revised civil 

defence policy in the light of the 

improved war situation 

maintenance of A.R.P. equipment. 

Air Raid Warning System. Air Raid 

Progs., Nos. 

2639 Precautions Mobile Forces. 

194 Secret 

Revised civil defence policy in 

Baluchistan. Quearterly review by 

the war Deptt. fo the strategic 

situation including gas on the Civil 

defence problem in India. 

49(5)-W, 

WAR 1943 

2640 

2641 

2642 

2643 

External Affairs Department 

weekly summaries-1943 from 1st 

Jan, 1943 to 29th December 

1943. 

Request from the Military 

Intelligence Service of the United 

States of America thorugh the 

Agent General for India in 

Washington for technical and 

general information about 

Distilleries and Alcohol 

installations in India. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(43)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Air Raid Precautions.Manuals and 


Handbooks etc. on ------issued by 

WAR 1943 

194 Part II 

the Civil defence Deptt. 

Lease--Lend 

Stores..........Circulars issued by 

Department of Supply 

(A.P.Branch). (2) Procedure for 

accounting and distribution of 

Lease-Lend Stores. (3) Imported 

Stores....Short arrivals and 

landings and excess receipts. (4) 


WAR 1943 

1943 



WAR 

2644 

2645 

2646 

2647 

2648 

2649 

2650 

2651 

Control, distribution and 

accounting of stores held by 

D.G.M.P. (5) Functions, duties 

and powers of Shipping Officers. 

Enquiry from the Agent General 

for India in China whether he 

should forward to the Govt. of 

India particulars of Chinese 

nationals desirous of doing war 

work in India. Question of the 

Employment of Mr. Shang Ho Liu. 

Progs., Nos. 53(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 


Transmission of the Peing 

Syndicates correspondence to and 

fromChina in the External Affairs 

Department Diplomatic bag and 

the Bags of the China Relations 

office Calcutta, after censorship. 

Progs., Nos. 41(10)-W, 

WAR 

1943(Secret) 

1943 

1. Far Eastern Publicity 

Fortnightly Summaries. 2. Far 

Eastern Directives for the U.S.A. 

3. Formation by Japan of India 

Empire Govt. Under Bose. 

Guidance of the British Political 

Warfare Executive, Washington. 


France and Frenchmen. 2. 

Fighting France. 3. French 

Possessions, in India. 

Censorship Interceptions...... 1. 

Afghanistan 2. Foreigners in 

Afghanistan. 

Political warfare Plans against 


territories and Siam 

Contributions to H.E. the Viceroys 

War Purposes Fund received 

through H.Ms Consul, erman. 

Permission to the Staff of the 

Italian Legation at kabul to 

correspond by Ordinary Postal 

Channels with India and Allied 

and Neutral countries and Such 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 41(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 




WAR 

2652 

2653 

2654 

2655 

2656 

2657 

2658 

2659 

2660 

parts of Italy which is Under 

Allied Occupation. 

3.Gift parcels for allied nationals 

serving with allied or British 

Forces in the United ingdom. 4. Progs., Nos. 31(2)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Communications with Prisoners of 1943(Secret)(B) 

war formality in Italy now 

interned in Switzerland. 

Export Trade control..... France , 

French colonies and mandated 

territories. 

Publication entitled `The Security 

of war Factories and Public 

Utilities`. 

Progs., Nos. 15(23)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

2. Request from the Consul 

General fora Statement clearing 

Captain S. Chistension of all 


Suspicitions. 3. Position regarding 

WAR 1943 


examination of Ship papers in 

Indian Ports under the Defence of 

India Rules. 

Functions of International Red 

cross in respect of Security 

detenue and Others. 

Use of wireless receiving sets by 

security prisoners. 

transmission of Letters to and 

from Signor Ungaro, Commercial 

Attachee of the Italian Legation , 

Kabul. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(29)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 41(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 


Contraband Control--- Navicerts... 

Enquiry from H.B.Ms Consul , 

Nova Goa , regarding refusal of Progs., Nos. 

nevicerts for country crafts sailing 1943(Secret) 

from Portuguese India Ports to 

Iraq and Other Persian Gulf Ports. 

23(3)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Pashi and 

Gwadar Trade-------Censor 

Intercepts relating to Gwadar are 

to be forwarded to P.A. Muscat 

Only. 

Progs., Nos. 42(36)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2661 

2662 

2663 

2664 

2665 

2666 

2667 

2668 

2669 

2670 

2671 

Censorship Interceptions......The 

Belgium Information Summaries. 

Enquiry as to Wheather M/s 

Drogaria ansguiri , Goa are 

identical or in any way connected 

with the G. Listed Firm of 

Sansguiry and Sobrinhos , Nova 

Goa. 

Request of the British Legation, 

Kabul for Supply of copies ofa 

circular and a Memorandum on 

War Trade List Policy issued by 

the M.E.W. in 1941. 

Representativesof the United 

States Mission in India in the sub- 

committee of the Central 

Priorities Committee, known as 

the forward Transport Planning 

Committe, operating under the 

War Transport Department. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Telegrams 

relating to Jewish Relief. 

Proceedings of the fifth meeting 

of the export advisory Council. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......1.Americas and 

Americans 2. United States of 

America. 

Weekly Political Appreciation 

Reports. 

Requisition and Aquisition of Sites 

for the construction of defence 

works in Indian States to fulfill 

operational and other 

requairments for the defence of 

India. 

Suspected secret censorship in 

China. 

The Prisoners of War(Forfeiture of 

Emoluments) ordiance , 1943. 

Progs., Nos. 42(26)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(43)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 42(16)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(22)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 18(45)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

2672 The Restriction and Detention Progs., Nos. 18(57)-W, WAR 1943 



WAR 

2673 

2674 

2675 

2676 

2677 

2678 

2679 

2680 

Ordance , 1944.2. Forms of Order 1943(Secret) 

for continued Detention Under the 

Ordiance. 


India and Indians. 2. Ceylon 

Statements by the Admirally on 

the U-Boat War. 

Report to the 78th Congress of 

Lease and Lend. 

Question of paying storage 

charges in respect of the 

Furniture and archive of the Ex- 

French Consulate general at 

Calcutta and the office of the 

French Commercial Attache 

stored with the Army Navy Store 

Calcutta. Disposal of the Vichy 

French Consular Fund. 

Supply of small arms Ammunition 

to the Indian States police and 

Irregular forces. 

(1) Instructions to the Apostolic 

Delegate in India not to allow 

exchange of messages between 

persons in India other than 

prisoners of war and internees 

and persons in Italy and other 

foreign countries through the 

medium of his office. (2) 

Permission for the exchange of 

Vatican Messages between -(i) 

Italian internees and 

prisoners....... 

Censorship Interceptions...... 

Intercepted letter from J. Lallaton 

, Bombay to Col. R.C.F. 

Schomberg, C.I.E. , D.S.O., 

Tehran. 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 3-W, 1943 WAR 1943 

Progs., Nos. 64-W, 1943 

WAR 1943 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(52)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 42(15)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Request from the Consul for 

Czechoslovakia at Bombay for the Progs., Nos. 53(14)-W, 

WAR 1943 

medical examination of Mr. 1943 

Zdenek Soyka---an employees of 



WAR 

2681 

2682 

the Railways Works Kanchrapara 

----in connection with the 

enlistment with Czech forces. 

Question of his exemption from 

Military Service. 

1.Arrangements for the Medical 

examination of and Passage 

facilities for Czech volunteers. 2. 

Procedure for the release of 

Czech employees of the Bren Gun 

factory Hydrabad. 

Progs., Nos. 

1943(Secret) 

28(3)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Appointment of delegates to the 

International Red Cross 

Committee in India. 

Progs., Nos. 59(35)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Most Secret 

Inspected Correspondence of 

certain Persons and Firms on the Progs., Nos. 

2683 

U.. War Trade Lists and M.E. W.G. 1943(Secret) 

Lists. 

35(7)-W, 

WAR 1943 

2684 

2685 

2686 

2687 

2688 

Inclusion in the Statutory List of 

the names of Anton Pereira and 

Mrs. Milko Pereira Partners of 

Statutory Listed Firm of M/s 

Elebao Pereira & Sons , 

Mormugao. 

Defence Department 

communication explaining the 


India Rules. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Poland and 

Polish people. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

American Lease-Lend Mission, 

should be presented to the 

Government of India through the 


office of the Personal 

WAR 1943 


Representative of the president of 

the United States of America to 

India. 

Proposal to invite United Govt. to 

nominate an official to attend 

Imperial Prisoners of War 

committee. 2. Proposal by United 

Progs., Nos. 31(15)-W, 

WAR 1943 




WAR 

2689 

2690 

2691 

2692 

States Govtti invite 

Representatives of H.M.G. 

Dominions and India to informal 

meetings of United States 

Department dealing with 

Proisoners of War Problems. 



Tibetians. 


WAR 1943 

II)-W, 1943 Secret 

1.The Aga Khans Offer to the King 

Emperor of His winning on the 

Turf in the Season 1943. 2. 

Suggestion that he should send 

his contribution Direct to the 

Vicerioy for His Excellencys war 

Purposed Fund. 

Progs., Nos. 43(10)-W, 

WAR 

1943(Secret) 

1943 

1.Report on activities of Banco 

Nacional Ultramarino. 2. Question 

of Lodging a Protest in Lisbon 

againest Portuguese Govt. Progs., Nos. 

utilising their Internal accounting 1943(Secret) 

Machinery for effecting payments 

in Goa on behalf of German and 

Italian Govt. 

35(5)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Censorship Interceptions........ 

Persian Gulf, Iraq. 

2693 Only Slip. 

2694 3 

2695 

2696 

2697 

2698 

Amendments to the War Injuries 

Ordiance , 1941 the War Injuries 

Scheme , 1942 and the War 

Injuries Regulations, 1942. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......Bahrain---- 

Purchase of Barter Permits. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(16)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 42(38)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Compilation of an official history 

Progs., Nos. 59(41)-W, 

of the war so far as the Deptts. of 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

the Govt. of India are concerned. 

Censorship in India of mail bags 

sent from Kabul to Washington. 

Progs., Nos. 11(34)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 



WAR 

2699 

2700 

respect of Germany and Japan 

and territories occupied by them. 

a. Re export from Pansi of 

contolled goods. b. Tour of the 

Mekran Coast carried out by Lt. 

Col. W.R. Hay , revenue 

commissioner in Baluchistan and 

his report tehran with 

recommendations for action. 


WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 15(93)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Redistribution of Powers exercised 

by the central and Proviential 

Progs., Nos. 

2701 Govt. Under the Defence of India 

1943(Secret) 

Rules , etc. is so far as they effect 

foodstuffs. 

19(5)-W, 

WAR 1943 

2702 

2703 

2704 

2705 

2706 

Censorship of Private letters etc. 

Progs., Nos. 41(V)-W, 

going External Affairs Department 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Bags. 

(1) Exemption of secret 

documents and secret baggage 

carried by Allied Service 

personnel from Customs and 

censorship examination in India. Progs., Nos. 11(12)-W, 

WAR 1943 

(2) Exemption on reciprocal basis 1943(Secret) 

of secret documents or secret 

baggage carried by British Service 

personnel entering or leaving 

China. 

Censorship Interceptions......., 

Persia & Persians. Conditions in 

Persia. 

Policy toword Indian P.O.W. 

Consequent on armistice with 

Italy. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Recomondations from H.Ms 

Consul, Nova Goa for listing and 

delisting of certain firms and 

Persons in Portuguese 

Possessions in India. 2. Question Progs., Nos. 

Wheatherthe Consuls 

1943(Secret) 

recomendations in Such cases are 

checed by Someone before being 

forwarded to India Office. 3. The 

Channel of communication that 

35(3)-W, 

WAR 1943 



WAR 

the Consul should use in 

Submitting his recommendations 

in Such cases to the M.E.W. 

2707 Security of Airfields. 

2708 

2709 

2710 

2711 

2712 

2713 

2714 

Grant of an Emergency 

Commission to Mr. J.M.Horkoff, a 

former Russian National at 

Present a refugee in China from 

Hongkong and Macao. 

brought within the Indian 

territorial waters and of the 

Indian Jurisdition on Prizes 

captured y the Indian armed 

Forces and Taen to the United 

Territorial waters. 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 53(13)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 


Policy to ensure the efficient 

handling of requests for 

information sought by the various 

United States Organisation in 

India. (2) Decision that all calls 

for information or questionnaires Progs., Nos. 3(2)-W, 

WAR 1943 

other than the exchange of purely 1943(Secret)(A) 

techincal and operational 

intelligence collected by 

U.S.Service authorities and the 

information required by 

the................... 

Permission to Sheikh Abdullah 

Suliman, Finance Minister of the 

Saudi Arabian Govenment, to 

exchange cypher telegrams with 

his Government during his stay in 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(17)-W, 

WAR 

1943(Secret) 

1943 

Censorship Interceptions. Matters 

relating to Turkey. 

Incidence of expenditure on shipwrecked 

passengers Landing at a 

port in India. 

Censorship Interceptions...... 

Exchange of Items between the 

British and the Japanese Govt. 

Progs., Nos. 42(23)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(24)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 42(34)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2715 

2716 

2717 

2718 

2719 

2720 

2721 

and Between United States of 

America and the Japanese Govt. 

at Goa. 

2. Supply of Insulin Phials for the 

Progs., Nos. 15(72)-W, 

President of Afghan arliment from 

WAR 1943 

1943(B) 

India. 

War trade List s No. 13 and 14 

and advice notes thereto M.E. 

W.G. List No 10 and Supplements 

thereto. 

Question of British Propaganda in 

India. 

The Cotton Cloth and Yarn 

(Control) Order, 1943. 

1. Enquiries into Suspected anti 

British activities of Captain S. 

Christensson , Master of the 

Swedish M.V. Falsterbo chartered 

by the British Ministry of War 

Transport. Question of His 

removal from the Ship. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(27)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 


Transmission of Private letters 

from Mousiers A Merens and Mr. 

Hasselman Netherlands Consul 

Progs., Nos. 41(12)-W, 

General and Vice Consul 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Respectively , to their relatives in 

Holland through H.Ms Embassy at 

Ankara. 

King of the Hellenes Greaks Relief 

Appeal. Contributions by Officers 

and Staff of the External Affairs 

Department. 

2722 Censorship 

Interceptions......Sinkiang. 

2723 

2724 

2725 

Security Organisations in Indian 

States. 

proceeding ex-India for 

exemption from censorship of 

official papers carried by them. 

Grant of facilities under postal 

and telegraph censorship to Mr. 

M.Tischler, an Official in India of 

Progs., Nos. 43(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(29)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(48)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(18)-W, 

WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 11(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2726 

the Govenrment of Palestine. 

Grant of privileges under postal 

and telegraph censorship to the 

Vice-Consul for Luxemberg at 

Bombay. 

2727 Exporrt Trade control... Monazile. 

2728 

2729 

2730 

2731 



Tibetians. 

Progs., Nos. 11(19)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(125)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

III)-W, 1943 Secret 

Control, as an Anti Inflation 

mesures over the level of Prices Progs., 

paid for war Supplies Partyicularly 1943 

Over Profits. 

Nos. 20(4)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Intercepted Letter from Haji Bai , 

Peshwar regarding the release of 

Qari Mohd. Nasim Jan and His 

affair with Junab Ali, the Ex Amir 

of Buhara. 

Establishment of a Liaison Office 

in India in virtue of a joint air 

training plan agreement made 

between the United Kingdom and 

Australian Govts. Appointment of 

Wing Commander G.A.Pape. 

Proposal for promulgating a 

Dominion Forces Ordinance. 

2732 Censorship 

Interceptions......Nepal. 

2733 

2734 

Report from Anglo Egyptian 

Censorship ona letter from the 

vatican to the Rev. L. Kierkels 

Apostolic Delegates in India, 

regarding allegation Againest 

Benedetto Cialeo, Bishop of 

Multan. 

Request from the Federal Bureau 

of Investigation , through the 

Indian Agent General in 

Washington , for confidential 

reports and view of the Govt. of 

India on M/s A.R. Reiss, Kurt 

Progs., Nos. 42(13)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(23)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(27)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(32)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2735 

2736 

2737 

2738 

2739 

Mangold and Felix X Boecker , 

three German internees in India. 

Contribtions to His Excellency the 

Viceroys war Purposes Fund the 

Kurram Agency , the Pupil 

Midwives of the North West 

Frontier Provience and the Jigra 

at Miranshah. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Permission to send and receive 

code telegrams and pouches by 

the Consular Representatives, for 

the U.S.A. at Goa without 

censorship at the time of 

exchange of American and 

Japanese nationals. (2) Request 

to the P.& T. authorities that all 

telegrms and pouches to and 

from the American Consular 

Progs., Nos. 11(30)-W, 

WAR 

1943(Secret) 

1943 

Representative at Goa be handled 

as expeditiously as possible at 

Bombay. 

Grant of concessions under post 


and telegraph censorship to 

WAR 1943 


Foreign Consular Officers in India. 

Document prepared by the 

foreign Office showing the war 

status of various Allied and 

Friendly Nations. 

Treatment of Consular personnel 

and archives falling into our 

hands in the territory of third 

powes. 

2740 Armistice terms to Italy. 

2741 

(1) Concession under telegraph 

Censorship to the 

Respresentatives in India of the 

U.S.Offices of War Information. 

(2) Permission to Mr. E.R.Barlow, 

Assistant Representative, U.S. 

Office of War Information to send 

press telegrams in abbreviated 

addresses. 


WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(26)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(15)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2742 

2743 

2744 

2745 

2746 

2747 

2748 

Enquiry as to Wheather Ali 

Darroudi of Falakeh Jonoobi is 


with the Statuatory listed 

Darudi(Darroudi) , Aghai Ali , 

Meshed. 

Complaint from the British 

Embassy, Bagdad, regarding 

censoship in India of diplomatic 

mails exchanged between the 

Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

and the Iraqi Legation in Kabul. 

Order under Rule 120 C of the 

Defence of India Rules to Compel 

Govt. servants to perform Civil 

Defence duties. 

Progs., Nos. 35(10)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(13)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 49(10)-W, 

WAR 1943 

194 secret 

Proposed reciprocal arrangements 

between India and the United 

States of America for the Exercise Progs., Nos. 13(3)-W, 

WAR 1943 

of the United States Jursdic tion 1943(Secret)(A) 

on Prizes Captured by the United 

DStates Forces and --- 

Ordiance amending the Defence 

of India Act, 1939. 

Censorship of mails of officials 

and staff of the British Legation, 

Kabul, sent by the Legation lorry 

to Peshawar. 

Request from the Ceylon Govt. 

for informations regarding a 

movements in the Maldives 

Islands to dethrone the present 

Sultan. 

Progs., Nos. 18(54)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(59)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Enquiry made by Signor Quaroni, 

Italian Minister in Kabul, through 

the British Legation, Kabul, 

regarding the health of his 

Progs., Nos. 

2749 brother Lt. Ludovico Quaroni, now 

1943(Secret) 

a P.O.W. in India. Suggestion that 

Lt. Quaroni should be allowed to 

pay a visit to Kabul to meet his 

brother. 

5(5)-W, 

WAR 1943 



WAR 

2750 

2751 

2752 

2753 

2754 

2755 

2756 


Germany and Germans 2. Italy 

and Italians. 

Anti Sub Marine Warfare. 

Instruction by the Foreign Office 

to H.M.s Representatives abroad 

not to mae statements or 

comments about the Progess of 

the anti Submarine campaign 

other than monthly statements 

issued by the British Prime 

Minister and President Roosevelt. 

Progs., Nos. 42(28)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Censorship Interception --- 

Detention ofa Letter by Censor in 

India by Mr. C.C. Serrett-Rogers , 

Foochow(China) addressed to 

Major Arthur ipling, New Work 

Criticising China and Her War 

Efforts. 2. Warning by British 

Embassy , Chungking , through 

the British Consul Foochow, to 

Mr. C.C. Skerrett-Rogers. 

Progs., Nos. 41(11)-W, 

WAR 


1943 

Free Carriage of gifts belonging to 

Chinese Red Cross from Jodhpur 

to Calcutta. 

Air Raid Precautions.Manuals 

Handbooks etc. Issued by the 

Civil Defence Deptt. 

Redistribution of work between 

Commerce and Supply 

Departments in regard to raw 

rubber and rubber manufactures. 

Censorship Interceptions. 1. 

Items relating to Trade 2. 

American approaches to Indian 

Firms. 

Progs., Nos. 59(49)-W, 

1943 Secret 

WAR 1943 


WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 59(12)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(11)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Settlement of Debt owed by the 

Italian in abul to firms in India. 2. 

2757 Request of Srinagar M. Ungaro for Progs., Nos. 38-W, 1943 WAR 1943 

release of 200 Shares held by him 

in the Indian Mallabe casting Lids. 

2758 Only Slip. Progs., Nos. 42(33)-W, WAR 1943 



WAR 

2759 

2760 

2761 

2762 

2763 

2764 

2765 

2766 

Censorship of a cover and a 

suitable belonging to Monsieur 

Benezech, received through the 

British Legation, Kabul. 

Question of the release from 

internment of Mr. Joseph Lazer a 

czech interence from Persia to 

enable him to join Zzeheslovak 

Forces. 

Review of War events.---Reports 

received by the Economic Adviser 

to the Government of India from 

the High Commissioner for India, 

London. 

The Lease/Lend Vehicles Control 

Order, 1943.2. The Civil Motor 

Transport Vehicles Control Order, 

1944. 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(28)-W, 

WAR 1943 



WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 


Progs., Nos. 18(30)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Complaint from Dr. Kung, Chinese 

Representativein Tibet, regarding 

three telegrams held up by the 

Censor Authorities in India and 

addressed to Bank of 

Communications China, Calcutta. 

Progs., Nos. 11(20)-W, 

WAR 

1943(Secret) 

1943 

Complaint of H.M`s Minister, 

Nepal, regarding detention by 

Progs., Nos. 11(27)-W, 

censors in India of a code 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

telegram from H.H. the Maharaja 

of Nepal to his Minister in London. 

Memorandum from the Foreign 

Office Setting out the conditions 

Governing acceptance and 

despatch and despatch of 

volunteers for the Polish army. 


WAR 1943 

1943 

Permission granted to Mr. R. 

Mesbah, Representative of the 

Imperial Iranian Ministry of Progs., Nos. 11(23)-W, 

WAR 1943 

Supply, Bombay to use registered 1943(Secret) 

Telegraphic addressed in Foreign 

Telegrams. 

2767 Censorship Progs., Nos. 42(35)-W, WAR 1943 



WAR 

2768 

2769 

2770 

2771 

2772 

2773 

2774 

Interceptions......Spain & 

Spanish. 

Export Trade Control....... 


Question wheather of Firms who 

have been declared as Statitory 

enemies in Portuguese India 

should also be so declared. 2. A 

Brief account of the principal 

Business centers in Goa. 

1. The Motor vehicles Spare Parts 

Control Order, 1943. 2. List of 

assential motors vehicle in the 

Sikim States. 3. Inclusion of the 

Amb State within the Jurisdiction 

of the Proviential Motor Transport 

Controller, N.W.F.P. for Purpose 

of administration of the Order. 

Grant of Cypher facilities to 

Monsieur Allahyar Saleh, Persian 

Trade Commissioner in India. 

1. Telegramsfrom the Spenish 

Consul, Bombay to Foreign 

Affairs, Madrid , regarding the 

Irregularities in the prisoners of 

war Camps in India. 2. Question 

that the matter be reffered to His 

Majestys Government to deal in 

correct of Spenish Consul. 


Madame Edith B. Karaasevie, a 

Yugoslav Nationanal.2. Visa for 

India for Madame Edith B. 

Karakasevie. 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(87)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 35 -W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(39)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(33)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(22)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Permission to Mr. Paul Ekstrom, 

Chancellor in charge of the 

Consulate General for Switzerland 

at Bombay to sent and receive 

Progs., Nos. 11(29)-W, 

official telegrams without 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

censorship during his stay at Goa 

in connection with the exchange 

of Americna and Japanese 

nationals. 



WAR 

2775 

2776 

2777 

2778 

2779 


from the Defence Department 

regarding escape to Switzerland Progs., Nos. 31(14)-W, 

WAR 1943 

of Indian Prisoners of war in Italy 1943(Secret) 

or their Joining the British Lines in 

Italy. 

Opening of Bank Accounts in 

India by Foreigners in Afghanistan 

2.Lists of accounts of foreigners 

in Afghanistan with Bank in 

Peshwar. 3. Instructions to the 

Banks that they should not open 

accounts for foreigners in 

Afghanistan unless the letter have 

obtained the Sanction of the 

Govt. of India. 

Progs., Nos. 

1943(Secret) 

26-W, 

WAR 1943 

Inviting the active Co-operation 

of states in connection with antiinflationary 

measures as a war 

necessary of Supreme 

importance. 

Enquiries as to wheather M/s 

Ebrahim hosroushahi Tehran and 

Hassan hosrovshahi, Teheran are 


with G. Listed firm of I. 

hosrowshahi & Co., Tehran. 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(12)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Export Trade control.............., 

Information regarding Shippers to Progs., Nos. 15(152)-W, 

WAR 1943 

whome export Licences have 1943(Secret) 

been refused. 

Extension of the Concession of 

free railway freight on all goods 

Progs., Nos. 59(17)-W, 

2780 destined for the French Red Cross 

WAR 1943 

1943 Secret 

Depot at Pondicherry and Ordered 

from Various places in India. 

2781 

Exemption from Customs and 

Censorship examination of (i) a 

diplomatic bag addressed to the 

Swiss Legation at Tokio carried by 

Mr. Rudolf Heinrich Gueller, and 

(ii) official documents carried by 

the Consul General for 

Progs., Nos. 11(25)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 



WAR 

2782 

2783 

2784 

2785 

2023 

Switzerland at Bombay to and 

from Goa at the time of the 

exchange of American-Japanese 

nationals. 



Tibetians. 

Text of a protest addressed by 

Japanese Government to the 

Govt. of Newzeland regarding 

shooting of unarmed Japanese 

Prisoners of War in a camp 

compound by armed troops. 

Censorship 

Interceptions......1.Swedes and 

Sweden. 2. Norway and 

Norwegians 3. Finns and Finland. 

Disposal of certain funds held by 

the Custodian of Enemy Property, 

Bombay in the Name of the Thai 

Govt.Decision that the Fund 

should vest in the Custodian. 

Internees from Persia................. Question of return 

of George Felix Ardissone one of the Italian Internees 

who were sent from Persia for internment in India. 

2024 Far Eastern Bureau Fortnightly Intelligence Report. 

2025 Far Eastern Bureau Fortnightly Intelligence Reports. 

2026 

2027 

2028 

2029 

Air Raid Precautions. Reports issued by the Defence 

deptt. on hostile air raids and their effects. 

enroute to other countries. and (iii) the Govt. of India 

attitude towards immigration of refugees. 

Proposed visit of Dr Marie Montessori and her nephew 

Mario Montessori to Ceylon. Permission granted to the 

former to leave India for Ceylobn. 

Question of granting travel facilities to Allied Occupied 

Italy to Mr. A.Colonnello--a Nationalised British 

Subject of Italian Origin. 


WAR 1943 

VI)-W, 1943 Secret 


WAR 1943 

1943 

Progs., Nos. 42(18)-W, 

WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 


WAR 1943 

1943(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

32(12)-W, 1944 

Progs., Nos. 65- 

WAR 1944 

W, 1944(Secret) 


W(Part III), WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

49(5)-W, 1944 


WAR 1944 

W, 1944(B) 


WAR 1944 

W, 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

59(57)-W, 

Secret 

1944 WAR 1944 

2030 Registration of claims relating to Non-German Enemy Progs., Nos. WAR 1944 



WAR 

Ships with the Proper Govt. Dept. for post war 

settlement. 

2031 Censorship Interceptions ---- Sinkiang. 

2032 

2033 

2034 

2035 

2036 

2037 

2038 

2039 

2040 

2041 

Complaints from the Afghan Govt. regarding 

censorship of sealed postal bags between Afghansitan 

and U.S.A. and the Opening of a diplomatic Bag from 

the Afghan legation, in Washington of the Afghan 

Foreign Ministry. 2. Presentation of official mail of the 

Afghan visa officer, Chaman, for verification, to 

the....... 

Enquiry from H.M.Ambassador, Tehran, regarding 

broadcasts by A.I.R. of alleged peace proposals put 

forward by PAPEN through Turkey. 

Mizars News letters received from the Publicity office 

(Foreign.) 

Import Trade Control--- Forward Shipping 

programmes of requirements from abroad. 

Grant of concessions under telegraphs censorship to 

Mr. A.N. Elshin, Representative in India of the Peoples 

Commissariat for Foreign trade U.S.S.T. (Soviet Trade 

Delegation in India.). 

Relaxation of lighting restrictions in the French 

Establishments and Portuguese Possessions in India. 

Censorship Interception.......Telegram from Da 

Afghanistan Bank, Kabul to National City Bank, New 

York regarding dyes for Kandahar Woollen mills. 

Export trade Control-- Silver ore, Bullion and 

Manufactures real and imitation, Jari, brocade etc. 

Question of the discontinuance of the productions, in 

its present form, of war in Pictures issued by the 

Ministry of Information. 2. Issue of Multilingual 

Magazine Dunya by the Director publications, 

divisions, information and Broadcasting Dept. 

Publication by the U.S. Govt. of protests made to the 

Japan Govt. regarding mistreatment of U.S. nationals 

in Japanese Hands. Question of the publication of 

13(7)-W, 1944 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 

42(13)-W, 

1944(Secret) 

WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

11(17)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

(Secret) (A) 

Progs., Nos. 

65(15)-W, 

1944(Secret) 

WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

65(24)-W, 

Secret 

1944 WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

16(6)-W, 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

11(2)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 

49(10)-W, 

Secret 

1944 WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

42(3)-W(Part 

III), 

1944(Secret) 

WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

15(98)-W, 

(Secret) 

1944 WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

65(41)-W, 

Secret 

1944 WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

31(15)-W, 1944 



WAR 

Protest covering mistreatment of British subjects by 

the Japanese. 

2042 The Delhi Rent Control Ordinance 1944. 

2043 War Trade lists No. 16 and Advice Notes there to. 

2044 

2045 

2046 

2047 

2048 

2049 

internees in Far Est. Situation of British and allied 

prisoners of war and civilian internees in Japanese 

hands. 

Censorship Interceptions ---- Cultural society of 

Friends of Soviet Union India and V.O.K.S., Kabul. 

Activities of the friends of Soviet Union. 

Training in Air Raid Precautions at the Civil Defence 

Schools and College. 

Delegation of powers to the Govt. of Bengal to export 

certain classes of Foreigners under the Foreigns Act 

1940. without reformer to the Govt. of India. 

Deportation of Mr. Chow Chih- hsien alias Chang Che- 

Ming a Chinese National. 

Nominal rolls of prisoners of War and missing 

belonging to areas and States under the external 

Affairs Deptt. 

Detention by Censors at Peshawar of a package 

containing issue of the Islah addressed to the Afghan 

Legation in Washington, Decision that the package be 

released. 2. Decision regarding the Censorship of mail 

matter addressed to or sent by allied or neutral 

diplomats, transitting India. 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

18(48)-W, 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

17(3)-W, 1944 


WAR 1944 

W, 1944(B) 

Progs., Nos. 

42(28)-W, 

1944(Secret) 

WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

49(4)-W, 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

18(16)-W, 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

WAR 1944 

31(13)-W, 1944 

Progs., Nos. 

11(20)-W, 

(Secret) 

1944 WAR 1944 

Scheme for payment of 

rewards to members of the 

public who apprehend Progs., Nos. 

2786 

persons who are subsequently 1944 Secret 

Convicted of being enemy 

Agents. 

59(34)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Export Trade Control-- 

2787 Afghanistan Sugar for 

Afghanistan. 

United Commission for the 

investigation of war Crimes. 

2788 

Establishment of a Far- 

Eastern Sub-Commission at 

Progs., Nos. 13(21)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(4)-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

Secret 



WAR 

Changking and nomination of 

the Indian Agent General as 

India`s representative on it. 

Adjustment of expenditure 

incurred on the construction 

of a temporary hut in the 

2789 Quetta Police lines for the 

accomodations of European 

foreigners entering 

Baluchistan from abroad. 

Progs., Nos. 33(4)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

Ordinance amending the 

Indian Army Act, 1911. The 

2790 

Army (Prisoner for 

Progs., Nos. 18(6)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

Dependents) Ordinance 1944. 

Intercepts of Correspondence 

between Miss Maria Manuela 

Passo, Lisbon, Sotto Tenente 

Pasqualino Anastasio, 

escapted Italian Prisoner of 

2791 

war in Goa, through the 

intermediary of Senhor 

Augusto Cabral, son of the 

Portuguese Governor General 

in Goa. 

Progs., Nos. 5(4)-W, 1944 

WAR 

(Secret) 

1944 

Contribution to H.E. the 

Viceroy`s Destress Relief and 

War Pusposes Funds Earl 

2792 Haigs Fund and Indina Red 

Cross Fund from Tasmania, 

Muscat, Abadan, Meshed and 

Nepal. 

Progs., Nos. 43(3)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

Lt. Pasqualino Anastasio two 

2793 escaped Italian Prisoners of 

war in Portuguese India. 

Guidance from H.M.G on 

2794 

Propaganda to China. 

Possible misuse of 

concessions granted to 

Foreign Consular and 

2795 Diplomatic officer in India, 

under postal censorship. 2. 

Compaint from the Govt. of 

Bombay regarding the use of 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) (C) 

Progs., Nos. 65(53)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(12)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 



WAR 

privileged Consular mail bag 

for transmission, of non 

Consular Correspondence by 

the Consul for the U.S.A., at 

Bombay. 

Transmission of private letters 

from Monsieur A. Merens and 

Mr. Hasselman, Netherlands 

2796 Consul General and Vice- 

Consul respectively, to their 

relatives in Holland through 

H.M`s Embassy, Ankara. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944(Secret) 

41(10)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Censorship of private letters 

Progs., Nos. 41(12)- 

2797 etc., passing through External 

WAR 1944 

W(Volume III), 1944 

Affairs Department bags. 

Censorship Interceptions ----- 

------------- Airgraph from M. 

Herlihy, New Delhi to the 

General Manager Reuters 

2798 London regarding Lebanon 

and Syria Service by Reuters 

ofganisations plan. Financial 

competition of Tass and other 

Propagandist Agencies. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944(Secret) 

42(40)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Progress Report issued by the 

2799 

Publicity officer (Foreign.) 

Progs., Nos. 65(45)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Decision regarding 

transmission of Persian 

Government and allied 

2800 diplomatic mails in bags from Progs., Nos. 41(9)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

the British Embassy, Tehran, 

to the External Affairs 

Department. 

Notoification issued under the 

War Injuriews (Compensation Progs., 

2801 

Insurance ) Act 1943. 1944 

Ordinances amending the Act. 

Nos. 18(35)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Export trade Control-- 

2802 Restrictions, on exports by 

post. 

Provision of passage facilities 

2803 

for Wanda Piestrak, Polish 

Progs., Nos. 15(91)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 28(6)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 



WAR 

W.A.C. to the middle East. 

Publicity arrangement on the 

2804 occasion of victory way in 

Europe. 

Progs., Nos. 65(57)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Censorship 

Interceptions........Censorship 

reports regarding Mottom Das 

Progs., Nos. 

2805 of Karachi, who is importing 

1944(Secret) 

large quantities of wines and 

spirits from all parts of the 

world. 

42-W, 

WAR 1944 


2806 

Egypt. 

Request from Mons. 

E.Venura, French Consul at 

Aden, and formerly Acting 

French Consul at Bombay, for 

2807 the despatch of certain cases 

deposited with Messrs. 

Thomas Cook, Bombay, 

containing consular 

documents. 

Orders etc. issued by the 

Baluchistan Administration 

2808 

under the Defence of India 

Rules. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 


Progs., Nos. 19(2)-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

Delegation of powers under 

section 26 of the Indian post 

office Act 1898 to P.O.Sikkim Progs., Nos. 59(5)-W, 1944 

2809 

WAR 1944 

and Political Agent Gilgit to Confidential 

detain postal Correspondence 

etc. 

in force in British India. 

Copies of amendments to the 

export Trade Notification and 

any administration, 

Progs., Nos. 

2810 

instructions, relating to export 1944 (B) 

Trade Control will contine to 

be forwarded to H.H.`s 

Consul, Nova Goa. 

15(162)-W, 

WAR 1944 

2811 Question of the use of the Progs., Nos. 17(4)-W, WAR 1944 



WAR 

statutory list after the Armistee in 

Europe. 

Statement made by the United 

State Govt. regarding Italian 

Prisoners of war consequent on 

Italian Co-belligerence. 2) 

2812 

Request of the Italian Govt. for 

the release of Count Luigi 

GrazioVinci Gigliucci-an Italian 

Prisoner of War in ......... 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 31(15)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(A) 

Export trade Control-- Statistical 

returns submitted by the export 

Trade to the Food Dept. in respect Progs., Nos. 15(51)-W, 

2813 

WAR 1944 

pulse, and flour and parts F. and 1944 (Secret) 

G. items of the export trade 

control notification. 

U.S.A. in connection, with Indian 

Army Publicity 6. Attachment of 

Lt. R.P. Muller to Indian Agent 

2814 

Central Washington, to assist Col. 

Himmatsingaji in connection with 

Indian Army Publicity. 

Appointment of Mr. Peston Grover 

as Chief Bureau Mangar of the 

2815 

Associated Press of America in 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 65(35)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret (C) 

Progs., Nos. 65(51)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Extension of the provision of the 

Indian Soldiers (Litigation Act 

1925 to persons connected with 

the Navy. etc. Indian Soldiers 

(Litigation) Amendment Ordinance Progs., Nos. 18(19)-W, 

2816 

WAR 1944 

1944. Procedure for the recovery 1944 

of arreans of land revenues 

Municipal taxes, etc. from the 

properties of absentes services 

personnel. 

Notifications regarding enemy 

firms issued by the Defence 

2817 

Department under the Defence of 

India Rules. 

Food Situation in India-----Food 

2818 Departments Weekly telegrams on 

food position in India. 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 59(47)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 



WAR 

Conclusion of an Agreement with 

Finland for the preliminaries of 

peace. Participation of India in it. 


2819 establishments of relations with -- 

--Finnish and Roumanian 

Diplomatic mission and 

Commercial relations with Finland 

and Roumania. 

message through the Apostolic 

2820 Delegatre Bangalore by Italians in 

Portugese India. 

Progs., Nos. 59(51)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(43)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) (C) 

Release of Chypher telegrams 

addressed by Gaulcab, Paris to Lt. 

Col. De Crevecoeur, Meerut. 

2821 

Question regarding the grant of 

cypher facilities to Lt. Col. De 

Drevecoeur. 

Progs., Nos. 11(31)-W, 

WAR 

1944 (Secret) 

1944 

Contraband in the Persian Gulf --- 

Suggestion from Political Resident 

in the Persian Gulf that the Ships 

2822 Navicert System may be made 

inoperative as far as the dhow 

traffice from the Persian Gulf is 

concerned. 

Progs., 

1944 

Nos. 23(2)-W, 

WAR 1944 


2823 Movement of Portugese stemaer 

S.S. Nyassa. 

Progs., Nos. 42(26)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Escapeo and recaptures of 

Prisoners of War. H.Ms. Consul 

Bora Goa to be informed of escaps Progs., 

2824 

of prisoners of war direct by Camp 1944 

Commandants. Escape of Italian 

prisoners of War to Daman. 

Nos. 31(2)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Complaint from the Indian Agent 

General Washington, regarding 

publicity in U.S.A. to the Exploits 

of Indian Troops request for 

Progs., Nos. 65(35)-W, 

2825 supply of more Material. 2. 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret (A) 

Question of asking Return to carry 

more news about Indian troops in 

their series to U.S.A. 3. Question 

of asking O.C. 6th Rajputana 



WAR 

Rifles to invite members of..... 

Questions whether offwnces under 

the Essential services 

(Maintenance) Ordinances 1941, 

are extradition offences. Question 

whether a strike in an 

2826 

employment to which the 

Essential services (Maintenance) 

ofdinance 1941 applies is illegal 

by virtue of a certain provision in 

the Ordinance. 

Progs., Nos. 18(25)-W, 

WAR 

1944 

1944 


Afghanistan---Tyres and tubes for 

Progs., Nos. 15(83)-W, 

2827 the car of Khan Bahadur Zianddin 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Ahmad H.B.M`s Consul at 

Kandahar. 

Stoppage of issued of the 

magazine Aisa and U.S continaing 

objectionable articles. 2. 

Suggested arrangemet that any 

U.S. publications, stopped on 

account of objectionable articles in Progs., Nos. 65(33)-W, 

2828 

WAR 1944 

them should be brought to the 1944 Secret (A) 

notice of the American Authorities 

so that they may stop copies 

coming in U.S. Army mails. 3. 

Supply of a copy of list showing 

treatment of publications,..... 

censorship 3. Desire of the U.S. 

Military authorities in India that 

they should be sole channel for 

messages relating to Chinese 

expeditionary force matters 

2829 matters and that traffic otherwise 

directed should be stopped 4. 

Stoppage of certain telegrams in 

code not confoming to censorship 

requirements and addressed to 

unprivileged Chinese Officials. 

Notification, etc., regarding 

enemy firm issued by the 

2830 

Commerce Department under the 


Progs., Nos. 11(19)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) (B) 

Progs., Nos. 35(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

Activities of Lima Laiton or Lima 

Leitao &Co., Mormugao, suspected 

Progs., Nos. 35(13)-W, 

2831 to be an offshoot of Messrs. 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Elesbao Pereira &Co., Mormugao, 

a statutory listed firm. 

Quearterly accounts of the 

2832 

Baluchistan War Fund. 

Export trad control--- Prohibition 

2833 of export of certain goods to 

places out side India. 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 15-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) 

Export Trade Contol. 1. Instuction, 

relating to export of 1. Fruits nuts 

and vegetables, and 2. Privisions 

Progs., Nos. 15(45)-W, 

2834 and Oilmans stores. 2. Prohibition 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

of the re-export of import of 

imported fruits and vegetables 

and oilmans stores. 


Persian Gulf Shipwreck of the 

2835 

sailing ship Bushire 68 near 

Hindarebi Island. 

Censorship of private letters etc., 

2836 going through External Affairs 

Department bags. 


2837 France. French establishments in 

India Madagascar. 

Progs., Nos. 42(25)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 41(12)- 

WAR 1944 

W(Volume II), 1944 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Air Raid Precautions---1. Air Raid 

Warning Policy. 2. Quarterly 

2838 review of the effect of the Progs., Nos. 49-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

strategic situation including on the 

Civil Defence problem in India. 


2839 

China & Chinese Tibet. 

Progs., Nos. 42(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) Part III 

Request to the U.S. Mission in 

New Delhi to facilitate the 

departure for U.S.A. of three 

Progs., 

2840 Finish missionaries Reverend E.W. 

1944 

Ferola Mrs. Martha Repo and Miss 

Amande Nykamen of the Finish 

Salem Mission Mahok Nurma. 

Nos. 33(3)-W, 

WAR 1944 

2841 Books and Publications------- Progs., Nos. 48-W, 1944 WAR 1944 



WAR 

Amendments to. 1. War Watching 

Manual (India) 1938. 2. List 

Showing Treatment of publications 

in censorship.3. Detaining 

Officer`s war Instructions 

(India)1935. 


Amendment to the Export trade 

2842 

Control notification- instruction, 

relating thereto. 


Correspondence between the 

I.R.C.C. Delegate Simla and thew 

2843 enemy nationals in the Portugese 

Possessions in iNdia, regarding 

transmission of their letters 

through the I.R.C.C. channels. 

Export trade Control--- Goods 

required for the polish 

2844 

Ambassador to H.M. Govt. of 

Greece in Cairo. 


Reports from Chief Censor India-- 

2845 - weekly report on India. 

Fortnightly report on the Far East 

Middle East Africa and Australia. 


2846 


Alleged delay in censorship of 

mails belonging to the Da. 

Afghanistan Kabul, Transitting 

2847 

Through India, 2. Instructions, 

regarding censorship of transit 

mails in India. 


2848 

America and American. 

Progs., Nos. 15(46)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(43)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) (A) 

Progs., Nos. 13(16)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(10)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret)(Volume I) 

Progs., Nos. 42(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) Part I 

Progs., Nos. 11(26)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(14)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Obituary notice in respect of Ex- 

Shah Raza Shah of Iran broadcast 

by A.I.R. 2. Decision that A.I.R. 

2849 

Should seekd the guidance of 

External Affairs, Dept. in matters 

attracting issues of Foreign Policy 

Progs., Nos. 65(37)-W, 

WAR 

1944 Secret 

1944 



WAR 

before embarking on any 

broadcasts. 

Export Trade Control-- Export of 

2850 cotton manufactures, cotton piece 

goods and Iran. 

Progs., Nos. 15(115)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Disposal of seven cases of medical 

goods consigned by Pestano 

Branco of Lisbon to Drogaria Luso 

Indian of Nova Goa, a statutory 

2851 

listed firm. (2) Delisting of 

Anantha Raicar, Sripad Naique 

Raicar and Delegacao Bial, Nova 

Goa. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944(Secret) 

35(8)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Export Trade Control--- Extension 

of licenses for the export of Tyres 

2852 and tubes granted to certian in 

India, by the Export trade 

controllers. 

Control as an anti-instalation 

measure over the level of price 

2853 

paid for watr Supplies particularly 

over profits. 

Policy in regard to enforcing 

2854 conceription of Allied nationals in 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 15(154)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 28(29)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

The Enemy Agents (Amendments) 

Ordinance, 1944. Result of certain Progs., Nos. 18(26)-W, 

2855 

WAR 1944 

trials under the Enemy Agents 1944 

ordinance 1943. 

the Diplomatic corps in Delhi, 

American journalists a sprinkling 

of American Officer to a cocktail 

party in order to get them 

interested in the mercenary Indian Progs., Nos. 65(35)-W, 

2856 

WAR 1944 

Army 4. Complaint from A.G. 1944 Secret (B) 

Chungking, that Renter do not 

carry adequate news about Indian 

Troops in their service to China. 5. 

Tour of the D.P.R. in.... 

Publicity in Persia Through film1s. 

2857 2. Supply of Indian films, for 

exhibition, in Persia. 3. Grant of a 

Progs., Nos. 65(54)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 



WAR 

license to Khan Sahib Malik Mohd. 

Shafi to export cinematropgraph 

equipment to Zahidan. 

Imposition of restriction on the 

entry etc. of certain foreigners in 

the Lakhimpur Cacher and 

Chittagong Districts. 2) Extension 

2858 of the restrictions to the whole 

province of Assam, the Assam 

tribal areas the States in Assam 

and the Chittagong Division of 

Bengal. ........... 

The Burma Police Forces 

2859 (Discipline Enforcement) 



WAR 1944 

1944(A) 

Progs., Nos. 18(28)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Exemption of Baron Christopher 

Von Furer Haimendr of an 

Australian employed under 

External Affairs Deptt. as special 

Progs., 

2860 officer Subansiri Area and his wife 

1944 

from the provisions of the Enemy 

Foreigners order 1939 and the 

questuio of the issue of an identity 

card to him. 

Nos. 33(5)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Instructions regarding crashed or 

force landed aircraft. Report 

regarding Casualties and dmage 

Progs., Nos. 

2861 caused by Jellissoing of bombs 

1944 Secret 

from British and Allied aircraft and 

by the Crashing of British and 

Allied aircraft. 

55(4)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Fortnightly Radio Reports from 

2862 

Tehran. 

Release of Missionaries of enemy 

nationality restricted to 

enternment camps or parole 

2863 

centres. Question of the return of 

Father lewis Luigi Magliacani an 

Italian Priest to Bahrein. 

Progs., Nos. 65(36)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 32-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

Reprint of the Foreigns order 1939 

and the Enemy Foreigners order Progs., 

2864 

1939. Amendments to the Foreign 1944 

prder 1939. 

Nos. 18(8)-W, 

WAR 1944 



WAR 

Censorship of private letters etc. 

2865 going through E.A.Department 

bags. 

Czech volunteers.Medical 

2866 Examination of Mr. Karel Marecek 

a Czechoslovak National. 

represent the interests of the 

2867 Republican Fascist Govt. which is 

not recognised by H.M.G. 

Statements by the Admiralty on 

2868 

the U-Boat War. 

Progs., Nos. 41(12)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944(B) 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

India - for employment as italian 

Prisoner of War in India for Progs., Nos. 31(15)-W, 

2869 

WAR 1944 

employment as Italion Anbassador 1944(B) 

to Argentine. 

The Bombay Commission of 

Industry ordinance 1944. The 

2870 

Bombay Explosion 

(Compensation) Ordinance 1944. 

Progs., Nos. 18(34)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

(1) Correspondence with prisoners 

of war and civilian internees in 

Japanese hands. (2) Indian Red 

Cross Postal Message Service to 


2871 territories. (3) Proposal from the 

Japanese for telegram service 

between prisoners of war and 

civilian internees and their 

relatives. (4) Correspondence with 

civilian internees in Siam. 

Progs., Nos. 41(17)-W, 

WAR 

1944(Secret) 

1944 

2) Correspondence from enemy 

nationals in Portugese India 

asking for replies to be sent 

2872 

through diplomatic channels to 

avoid British Indian Censorship. 3) 

Transmission of ........ 

Progs., Nos. 42(43)-W, 

WAR 

1944(Secret) (B) 

1944 

must be carefully taken note of a 

preserved for future reference 3. 

Question whether an incident 

2873 

where Enquirer were made by a 

U.S. Sargeant from the supply 

Dept. direct regarding India`s 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) (B) 



WAR 

industrial capacity, may be 

brought to the notice of U.S. 

Mission. 


2874 

Russia and Russians. 

Procedure for Air Force War 

2875 Emergency works and Air Force 

Operational Works. 

The Registration (Emergency 

Powers) ordinance 1944 

2876 

Registration of certain female 

European British Subjects. 

Contribution from Baluchistan to 

2877 H.E. the Viceroy`s War Purposes 

Fund. 

Progs., Nos. 42(34)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(69)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 


Enquiry from Political Officer 

Progs., Nos. 42(22)-W, 

2878 Sikkim regarding his requirements 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

of censorship reports relating to 

Tibet. 

Concessions under postal and 

Telelegraph censorship to the 

2879 Regional Representative in India 

of the Chinese Board of Transport 

Control. 

Progs., Nos. 11(23)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Contribution to H.E. the Viceroy`s 

War Purposes fund by Mr. Allhbux 

Zia restricted to Peshawar under Progs., 

2880 

Orders Issued by E.A.Deptt. under 1944 

rule 26 of the Defence of India 

Rules. 

Nos. 43(7)-W, 

WAR 1944 


Transmission of Censorship 

2881 information contained in Weekly 

Censorship reports to Principal 

Govt. 

Exchange of prisoners of war and 

internees proposal to make an 

2882 approach to Japan for an 

exchange of prisoners of War for 

Japanese internees. 

Progs., Nos. 42(42)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31(14)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

2883 Question of inproving A.I.R. Progs., Nos. 65(34)-W, WAR 1944 



WAR 

broadcasts to the Uiddle East. 

Question for collecting data in the 

Light of which inprovements will 

have to he made. 

1944 Secret 

Complaint from the Chinese 

Legation, Cairo, regarding 

stoppage by Censors in India of 

letters written by Chinese Seamen Progs., Nos. 11(16)-W, 

2884 

WAR 1944 

employed on British India Ships to 1944 (Secret) 

their relatives in Occupied China 

in Accordance with arrangements 

by H.M.G 

Enquiry whether Shirkata Tamirati 

Ashami Afghani is also the name 

2885 

in Afghanistan for Skoda Works 

Agency, Kabul. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944(Secret) 

35(5)-W, 

WAR 1944 

The code of criminal Procedure 

2886 

(Amendment) Ordinance 1944. 

Decision to codemn copies 

intercepted in India of the Polish 

2887 

new-sheet Wolnej Polski issued 

from Tehran. 

Progs., Nos. 18(72)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 65(52)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Enemy Tradidng..........Export to 

Turkey and subsequent re-export 

to German occupied Europe. (2) 

Navicert System.......Enquiry from Progs., Nos. 

2888 

H.M`s Consul, Nova Goa, whether 1944(Secret) 

he is taking action in accordance 

with the instructions on the 

Navicert System. 

34(2)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Guidance telegrams from the 

2889 Director of Public relations on 

Burma Front. 

Export Trade Control--- Personal 

effect instruction relating to 

2890 

export of Baggage of Passangers 

leaving India. 

Transmission of letters of Indian 

2891 Research Scholars in China by 

bags. 

2892 Disposal of Unexploded Bombs. 

Progs., Nos. 59(31)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(158)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 41(16)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

Transmission of radio messages to 

relatives in Far East. Netherlands 

East Indies......... (1) Request 


General that the Govt. of India 

should not discontinue 

2893 

transmission of messages to 

civilian internees. (2) Request 


General for a separate 

Netherlands Govt. service 

to.............. 

Progs., Nos. 41(19)-W, 

WAR 


1944 

Air Raid Precautions Lebrature. 

2894 

Training and Operations Circulars. 

Question of the continuance of 

2895 British Broadcasts from the 

Tehran Radio. 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 65(46)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

An Aide Memoire from the office 

of the Personal representative of 

the President of the U.S.A. in 

India enquiring about (i) the 

Progs., 

2896 number of refugees who have 

1944(A) 

been given haven in India. (ii) the 

extent to which refugees have 

been accommodated in India while 

............ 

Nos. 29-W, 

WAR 1944 

The Service in Ships (Requisition) 

2897 


Progs., Nos. 18(43)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Cease Fire(Europe). Action to be 

taken by Departments of Govts. of Progs., Nos. 59(52)-W, 

2898 

WAR 1944 

India when ------is signalled. 1944 Secret 

Preparation of a -------Book. 

Coastal Shipping-- Cargo Priority 

2899 

by Coastal Shipping. 

Contributions to H.E. the 

Viceroy`s War Puposes Fund by 

2900 

Officials Chiefs and Public of the 

Gilgit Agency. 

Export Trade Control--- Leather 

2901 

Manufactures. 

War Trade lists No. 17 and Advice 

2902 

Notes thereto. 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 15(159)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

(1) Communication with Prisoners 

of War formerly in enemy hands, 

now interned in Switzerland. (2) 

Despatch of parcels containing 

gifts for British and Indian troops 

2903 

serving overseas, from their 

friends and relatives in India. (3) 

Despatch of gift parcels for Allied 

Nationals serving with the Allied 

or British Forces in the U.K. 


2904 

Ethopia. 

Possible misuse of the Chungking 

Embassy bag by Bishop Frank 

2905 

Hongtour China Inland mission for 

his private letters and air graphs. 

Progs., Nos. 41(18)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(15)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(33)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Estimate of minimum 

requirements of unleaded petrol of 

Progs., Nos. 15(37)-W, 

2906 state in Baluchistan, Foreign 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Possessions, in India, and certain 

Foreign Countries. 

Censorship Interceptions--- 

2907 

Turkey. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Censorship Interceptions ---- 1. 

Requirement of the authorities 

with whom External Affairs Deptt. 

are concerned of censorship 

information in the form of 

submission slips. Enquiry from the 

Progs., Nos. 42(23)-W, 

2908 British Embassy and Indian 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Agency General Chungking and 

the C.R.O. Calcutta regarding 

their requirement of censorship 

information. Procedure regarding 

despatch of submission slips to 

H.Ms. Embassy Chungkimg. 

Publicity of the Arakan operations 

2909 and the I.N.A. in Arakan----Draft 

communique by the D.M.I. 

3) Question of imposing 

restrictions on the residence etc., 

2910 

of Tibetans and Bhutanese in 

Assam 


WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944(B) 



WAR 

Censorship 

Interception..........Afghanistan--list 

of important Shirkat`s in 

2911 

Afghanistan. (2) Chart showing 

the output of various factories in 

Afghanistan. 

Progs., Nos. 42(3)- 

WAR 

W(Part II), 1944(Secret) 

1944 


Petrol to Afghanistan in 

2912 

connection with the situation in 

Khost. 

Protest regarding the search of 

the lorry of the British Legation, 

Kabul, on its way from Peshawar 

2913 to Kabul, by the officer 

Commanding Censor, Station, 

Peshawar. 2. Forms of identity 

carried by the Legation Couriers. 

Progs., Nos. 15(112)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 11(28)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Lease Land Instructions relating to 

the Transfer of Lease Lend 

2914 

material (a) within India and (b) 


Progs., 

1944 

Nos. 22(4)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Correspondence with prisoners of 

war and civilian internees in 

Japanese hands........Red Cross 

2915 telegram message scheme 

between prisoners of war and 

civilian internees in the Far East 

and their next of kin in India. 


2916 

China and Chinese Tibet. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) Part II 

Opening of bank accounts in India 

by foreigners in Afghanistan. The 

Arrangement for the periodical 

scrutiny of certain accounts by the 

inspector of Enemy Trading 

2917 

Peshawar. Question as to how 

much credit balance should a 

foreigner in Afghanistan be 

allowed to have in his account 

with a bank in India. 

Progs., 

1944 

Nos. 33(6)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Proposal to introduce an air mail 

2918 service for correspondence of 

prisoners of war and internees in 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 



WAR 

the Far East. (2) Radio 

messages..........All India Radio 

broadcasts to prisoners of war and 

internees in the Far East. 

Question of preventing Mr. 

Hallenborg., stated to be coming 

to India as Consul General for 

Sweden at Bombay, from 

2919 

importing a charcoal generator 

which he might possibly purchase 

from a Black Listed firm in 

Sweden. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Complaint from the Chairman, 

Institute of International relations, 

of the Chinese National, Military 

Council regarding the stoppage by 

Censors in India of a code 

2920 

telegram from his to the Chinese 

Consul General, Calcutta. 2. 

Details of the Chinese authorities 

in India who have been granted 

concessions, under telegraph .... 

Progs., Nos. 11(19)-W, 

WAR 

1944 (Secret) (A) 

1944 

Declarations, etc. regarding 

2921 enemy territories and enemy 

occupied territories. 

Export Trade Control--- Silver 

Coins --- Instruction regarding 

classification, of silver Coins for 

the purposes of export. 2. Export 

Control--- Portuguese 

2922 Possessions, in India. Decision 

that it is no longer necessary to 

ask the Portuguese Indian 

authorities to impose restrictions, 

on exports from their territories 

simlar to those.... 

Progs., Nos. 37-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 15(162)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (A) 

Planning Board for External 

Publicity. (2) Decision that 

External Publicity should for the 

2923 present remain under the control 

of Information & Broadcasting 

Department. (3) Fortnightly 

meetings between External Affairs 

Progs., Nos. 65(11)-W, 

WAR 

1944(Secret) 

1944 



WAR 

Department and Information & 

Broadcasting Departments on 

matters connected with External 

Publicity. 

Transmission of a letter addressed 

to Professor A.A. Memon, of the 

Muslim University, Aligarh, 

regarding his participation in the 

2924 Millenary Celebrations at 

Damascus in honour of Abou el 

Ala el Muarri. (2) Question of 

granting travel facilities to 

Professor A.A. Memon. 

Progs., Nos. 41(25)-W, 

WAR 

1944 

1944 

Medical examination byMixed 

Medical Council of Italian Prisobers Progs., 

2925 

of War to determine their 1944 

eligibility for repatriation. 

Nos. 31(7)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Agenda and minutes of the 

2926 

Foreign Publicity Board Meeting. 

Supply of Wires and Cables 

required for Govt. purposes------ 

2927 .Baluchistan`s requirements of 

wires and cables for the year 

1944. 

2928 Weekly Publicity Reports. 

Progs., Nos. 66-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 53(14)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Request from the Consul General 

for the Netherlands at Calcutta for 

information regarding Syed bin 

Hassan Abubakar Ei Attas and 

Syed Mohsin bin Mohammed EI. Progs., Nos. 33(10)-W, 

2929 

WAR 1944 

Attas employees of the Hyderabad 1944 

Govt. in order that they may be 

considered for employment by the 

Netherlands authorities in 

Australia. 


Instructions, regard the 

Progs., Nos. 15(78)-W, 

2930 percentage check of Bills of Lading 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

with export licenses and export 

manifests 

2931 E.A.C. Chaman instead of the O.C. Progs., Nos. 11(17)-W, WAR 1944 



WAR 

Censor Station, Quetta. 1944 (Secret) (B) 

Question of accommodating 

Mustapha Ali Azhar a student from 

Singapore stufying in Iraq at the 

2932 expense of the Iraqi Govt. in a 

refugee camp in India and of 

meeting the cost of His passages 

from Iraq to India. 

Progs., 

1944 

Nos. 29(4)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Security of Civil aerodomes used 

2933 

by Allied air forces. 

Progs., Nos. 55-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

Secret 

Evasion of Censorship --- 

Question of addressing the Iranian 

Consular General in connection, 

with a cover sert by Asabollah 

2934 

Rafat, Iranian Consulate, 

Bombsay, to Iran Through 

Bahaman Kiani, in order to evade 

censorship. 

Progs., Nos. 11(11)-W, 

WAR 

1944 (Secret) 

1944 

Position regarding censorship of 

private code telegrams from 

2935 

Portugue India to places outside 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(18)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Proceedings of the Conference of 

the British Canadian and American 

Red Cross societies held at 

Washington regarding despatch of 

relief supplies to the Far East. Co- 

2936 

operation between the Red Cross 

societies of the United States and 

the British Empire regarding 

despatch of relief stores to 

prisoners of war and ........... 

Progs., 

1944(A) 

Nos. 31-W, 

WAR 1944 


Letter from Mani Goa regarding 

2937 mail for prisoners of war in 

Japanese hands by the S.S. Teia 

Matu. 

Distribution of Copies of Souvenir 

2938 of the Iranian Cutural Mission`s 

visit to India, 1944. 

Communication explaning 

2939 


Progs., Nos. 42(29)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(62)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 19-W, 1944 WAR 1944 



WAR 

India Rules. 

Concession under telegraph 

censorship to Non-Consul or Non- 

2940 

Diplomatic officials in India of the 

Allied Govt. 


Ketter from Mr. N.W. Rankin 

Kukong China to Mrs. M.W. 

Rankan Texas U.S.A., regarding 

2941 

the writers travels with British 

Military Convoy and the 

Misbehaviour of the Director of 

the Postal Mail Truck , Kunming. 

Office Memoranda from the 

Defence Deptt. regarding 

2942 

additions and deletions made in 

the Ships War Trade List. 

Progs., Nos. 11(22)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(36)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 17-W, 1944 WAR 1944 


postal and telegraph censorship to 

Foreign Consular Officers in India. 

2. Permission to the Polish Consul 

General to correspond with Progs., Nos. 9-W, 1944 

2943 

WAR 1944 

additional Polish authorities (Secret) (A) 

abroad in abbreviated telegraphic 

addresses. 3. Request from the 

Turkish Consul General at Bombay 

for the grant.... 

Military deserters--Arrest of ----by Progs., Nos. 59-W, 1944 

2944 WAR 1944 

the Police. 

Secret 

Bi-weekly quidance notes on the 

2945 

war situation. 

Reorganisation of the System 

2946 

military Commands in India. 


Letter from T.T. Koo, Calcutta to 

2947 M.T. Chen Chungking regarding 

food rationing in Calcutta, as seen 

by a Chinese. 

Order Under Rule 120. C. of the 

Defence of India Rules to Compel 

2948 

Govt. servants to perform Civil 

Defence duties. 

Progs., Nos. 65(19)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(13)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(38)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 


2949 vegetable oilseeds, non-essential 

and vegetable oil. 

2950 Indian Newspapers for Turkey. 

Prisoners of War 1) copies of 

telegrams relating to Prisoners of 

2951 

War matters or photographs of 

Japanese Prisoners of war. 

Extension of privileges under post 

adn telegraph censorship to 

2952 Monsieur Nizameddin, Emami, to 

New Persian Trade Commissioner, 

in India. 

Progs., Nos. 15(106)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 59(25)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 11(36)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 


from the Defence Deptt, regarding 

Progs., 

2953 escape to Switzerland of Indian 

1944 

Prisoners of war in Italy or their 

joining the British lines in Italy. 

Nos. 31(4)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Procedure regarding publication in 


2954 the press of statements regarding 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Air Raids and Air Raids Casualties. 

Procedure for the disposal of 

intercepted transit telegram which 

certain to enemy trans saction 2. 

Question of establishing a 

censorship control port at castle 

2955 

Rock. 3. Improvement in the 

existing procedure for censorship 

of books, papers, etc. of important 

travellers from Goa to other 

countries passing through India. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944 (Secret) 

11(7)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Supply of copies to certain Dept. 

of the Govt. of India of E.A. Deptt. 

regarding handing of requests for 

information about India by 

Various U.S. Organization, in Progs., Nos. 3(2)-W, 

2956 

WAR 1944 

India. 2. Note Circulated to Supdt. 1944 (Secret) (A) 

in E.A. Deptt. that copies of 

papers continuing decision or 

instruction, which are supplied to 

Branches for guidance...... 



WAR 

Export Trade Control--- 1. General 

instructions, to be followed in 

dealing with applications, for grant 

Progs., Nos. 13(17)-W, 

2957 of export license for controlled 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

good. 2. Instruction, relating to 

exports authorised by Supply 

Dept. 

Decision regarding inclusion of 

private letters in E.A.D. bags sent 

to the India Office, British Progs., Nos. 41(22)-W, 

2958 

WAR 1944 

Embassies & Legations abroad and 1944(Secret) 

the Indian Agencies General at 

Washington and Chungking. 

Request from the Afghan Govt. for 

the release fo certain religions 

books belonging to Maulvi Ahmad 

Jan and detained by the Censors 

at Peshawar. 2. Complaint by the 

2959 

Afghan Govt. regarding delay 

caused in the Censorhsip of 

Booms brought by Afhgan 

Students from Abroad whilst in 

transit of India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(32)-W, 

WAR 

1944 (Secret) 

1944 

Question of transmission of a 

letter from Mr. W.C. Henry, 

addressed to the Swedish Consul 

2960 

General Shahghai, through the 

Consul General for Sweden at 

Bombay. 

Disposal of the Bank balances in 

2961 India of the Japanese Legation, 

Kabul. 

Contribution to H.E.the Viceroy`s 

2962 War Purposes Fund received 

through H.M.`s Consul Kerman. 

Progs., Nos. 41(26)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 6-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 


Reports from Chief Censor India-- 

Progs., Nos. 42(10)-W, 

2963 - Weekly Report o India. 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Fortnightly Report on the Far East 

Middle East Africa and Australia. 

Delisting of Eduardo Coelho of 

2964 Nova Goa. (2) Decision not to 

retain listed names in Portuguee 

Progs., Nos. 35(12)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 



WAR 

India on the Post-hostilities list. 

Export Trade Control-- Statistics 

2965 regarding exports to certain 

destinations. 

Progs., Nos. 15(165)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Review of war legislation. 

Question of taking powers after 

the time when the war legislation 

2966 

expires. The Present War 

(Definition) Ordinance, 1945. Date 

of official termiantion of the war. 

Progs., Nos. 18-W, 1944 WAR 1944 


2967 

India and Indians. 

2968 List of Heads of States and Govts. 


Letters from R. Johanson Wallem 

2969 & Co. (India) Ltd. Bombay to C.Y. 

Lin Haig Yang regarding Chimai 

future shipping questions. 

Progs., Nos. 42(16)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(17)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(20)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


books and films consigned to the 

Chinese Govt., Institutions, 

transitting India. 2. Question of 

2970 devising a general procedure for 

the handling of bookd and films 

belonging to allied or neutral 

Govt. which are in transit through 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 15(25)-W, 

WAR 

1944 (Secret) 

1944 



censorship. 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Induction of Mr.Inder Nath Chanra 

an Indian student in U.S.A.-- in 

2972 the U.S. Army. Question of his 

transfer to the Indian Army as a 

Commissioned officer. 

Progs., Nos. 28(34)-W, 

WAR 

1944 

1944 

Export Trade Control-- 1. Toilet 

2973 

requisites 2. Perfumery. 

Firm of Meir Heskel 

Murad,Baghdad----------- Letter 

2974 

from M.H.Murad regarding 

formation of a Private Limited 

Progs., Nos. 15(63)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 35(10)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 



WAR 

company in Baghdad. 

Suggestion regarding an 

amendment of the address of the 

2975 statutory listed Mahmud Ve 

Cihangir Safyurtlu, Ltd., Sirketi, 

Istanbul. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Request from the resident for 

Baroda and the Gujarat States for Progs., Nos. 59(28)-W, 

2976 

WAR 1944 

a short note on the antecedents of 1944 Secret 

Mr. Prem Shankar Dave. 

Export trade Control--- Revised 

procedure for applying for license 

2977 for export of goods, References to 

Inter-Dept. Committee in the 

matter of Exports. 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Export Trade Control--- 

Instructions, relating to exports by Progs., Nos. 15(161)-W, 

2978 

WAR 1944 

private firms to Military 

1944 

authorities. 

Export Trade Control--- Creation 

of the office of the Cheif controller Progs., Nos. 15(153)-W, 

2979 

WAR 1944 

of export under the Commerce 1944 

Dept. 

Contributions to H.E.Viceroy`s 

2980 War Purposes Fund by the Indian 

Community at Zahidan. 

publicity as a part of their duties 

4. Representation from Mr. M. 

2981 

Anwar, Publicity officer, Tehran, 

for amelioration of his allowance. 

Air Raid Precautions. Manual and 

Handbooks etc. on A.R.P. issued 

2982 

by the Defence department (Civil 

Defence Branch.) 


2983 

Switzerland and Swiss. 

Broadcasts in Gurkhati from the 

Japanese controlled stations of 

2984 

Rangoon and Saigon. Measures 

adopted to contract them. 

Internees from Persia ----- 

2985 

Representations from Storch 

Progs., Nos. 43-W, 1944 WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 65(58)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret (B) 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 42(18)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(21)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

Nielson a Danish internee from 

Persia asking for the reasons of 

his internment etc., Question of 

his eventual release. 

Food Situation in India------ 

General circular issued by Food 

2986 

Department. ------Rationing 

Industrial Canteen. 

Censorship of private letters etc., 

2987 passing through External Affairs 

Department bags. 

Reports by I.R.C.C. Delegates on 

2988 enternment camps in ebemy 

European countries. 

Export trade Control--- Procedure 

for the co-ordination of the Indian 

2989 

Export license with the Middle 

East Import license. 

China Information Bulletin--- 


2990 

and press advising of bulletins 

appearing in the---- 

Progs., Nos. 59(49)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 41(12)- 

WAR 1944 

W(Volume IV), 1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 15(30)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Proceedings of the meeting held in 

the information and Broadcasting 

Dept. to discuss ways and means 

of improving and strengthening all 

India, Radios publicity broadcasts Progs., Nos. 65(23)-W, 

2991 

WAR 1944 

2. Publicity Directives to the all 1944 Secret 

India Radio for broadcasts to the 

middle east. 3. Control over 

middle east broadcast of the all 

India Radio. 

Concessions granted to Foreign 

Consular Officers etc., regard to Progs., Nos. 11(10)-W, 

2992 

WAR 1944 

the use of Abbreviated telegraphic 1944 (Secret) 

Addresses in Foreign Cables. 

The Military Safety (Power of 

2993 

Detention) Ordinance 1944. 

Exemption from Income Tax of 

2994 

Netherlands Seamen. 

Censorship control Deptt. policy 

2995 

letter regarding censorship of 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 59(38)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 31(18)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

telegrams to and from or on 

behalf of prisoners of War and 

interest and telegrams to an from 

the I.R.C.C. Delegates in India. 

Indices to Far Eastern Bureau, 

2996 

Fortnightly Intelligence Reports. 

Progs., Nos. 65-W(Part 

WAR 1944 

II), 1944(Secret) 

Export trade Control-- re-export of 

goods, imposed in the India, by 

2997 

land from adjacent counties -- 

Export of good of Foreign Origin. 

Progs., Nos. 15(99)-W, 

WAR 

1944 

1944 

Question regarding the censorship 

in India of private mail of H.M`s 

2998 

Consul in the Portuguese 

Possessions in India and his wife. 

Progs., Nos. 41(21)-W, 

WAR 

1944 

1944 

Export Trade Control ----China --- 


2999 -----Goods for the Military Attache 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

to the Soviet Embassy Chungking. 

Release of suplus Army W/T Sets 

3000 and Components to Departments 

of the Central & Provincial Govts. 


Letter from the Bombay Steam 

Navigation Co., Ltd. Bombay to 

3001 

K.M. Sinkar B.S.N. Co. Limited 

Mormugao....... Arrangements for 

unloading Cargo at Marmugao. 

2. Replacement of Mr. Tommy 

Chao, reuters representative in 

3002 

Chungking on account of his 

objectionable articles. 

Export Trade Control--- Question 

as to when export is complete for 

3003 

purposes of export control 

requisitions. 

Export Trade Control-- Chrome 

3004 tanned leather-- Tanned hides --raw 

hides. 

Number of letters, postcards and 

Red Cross messages which 

3005 Japanese Prisoners of War and 

internees in India are allowed to 

send to Japan. 

Progs., Nos. 59(63)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(37)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(43)-W, 

WAR 1944 


Progs., Nos. 15(38)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(76)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 41(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 



WAR 

Enquiry whether Messrs. Hilmi 

Hamamcioglu, Blaupunkt 

Radyelari, Ankara, are connected 

3006 

or indentical with the statutory 

listed firm of Blupunkt Radyolari of 

Galata, Istanbul. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944(Secret) 

35(4)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Question of the transfer of Capt. 

Elias Toschi, an escaped Italian 

Prisoner of war in Din to Goa, Progs., Nos. 

3007 

Through British Territory to enable 1944 (Secret) 

him to receive urgent Medical 

Treatment. 

5(3)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Proposal that letter coming from 

China to India should be suitably 

stamped by Chinese censors to 

indicate the authority responsible 

for making excisions from the 

3008 letters in censorship. 2. Decision 

that representations in matters 

concerning Chinese Govt. 

Administrative or other act in 

China should be made in 

Chungking. 

Transmission of red cross 

messages addressed to Goa. 2. 

3009 Censorship of Mails loaded on 

loaded from S.S. Nyassa on her 

calls at Mormugad. 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(33)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Transmission of confidential 

telegraphic messages from certain 

Allied Consular Officers in India to 

their Governments in London, 

Progs., Nos. 41(13)-W, 

3010 consiquent on the ban imposed in 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

the U.K. on the receipt and 

transmission of cypher telegrams 

by Foreign Governments and 

Missions. 

Transmission by Indian Agency 

General, Washington, of a private 

letter from Mr. Dutt, in their bag 

3011 

to India. Question of asking the 

Indian Agency General, 

Progs., Nos. 

1944(Secret) 

41(5)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Washington, not to include private 



WAR 

letters from unprivileged persons 

in their bags as they evade 

American censorship. 

Contributions to H.E. the 

Viceroy`s War Purposes Fund and 

Progs., Nos. 43(12)-W, 

3012 investments in three Year Interest 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Free Defence Bonds by the Indian 

Community in Tehran. 


Afghanistan--- Goods required for 

3013 

the sports factory of the Afghan 

Minister of War. 

Progs., Nos. 15(71)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Request from the British Legation, 

Kabul, that information, regarding 

postal and telegraphic 

3014 communication with territories 

may be supplied to the Afghan 

Post office by the Indan postal 

authorities. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944 (Secret) 

15(2)-W, 

WAR 1944 


Denmark & times. 2) Norway & 

3015 Normegrani. 3) Netherlands & the 

Dutch. 4) Belgium & the Belgians. 

5) Sweden & Swedish. 

Inclusion of copies of Civil and 

Military Gazette, Lahore, 

addressed to Mr. Jujiyoshi, a 

3016 

Japanese Enginer in Afghanistan, 

in the bag of H.M`s Consul, 

Kandahar, sent from Chaman. 



censorship. 

Request by Mr. Senn, the 

Chungking delegate of the 

International Red Cross 

3018 

Committee to send parcels to 

China by the Agency General 

Bags. 

Release of three Chinese maid 

3019 servants, Chhu Poh Geok, Tan 

Gwat kain and Sun Giok, who 

Progs., Nos. 42(17)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 41(27)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


W(Volume 

1944(Secret) 

II), WAR 1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 



WAR 

were formerly employed by the 

Japanese Consulaate General at 

Singapore and were interned in 

India. 

Export Trade Control--- A resume 

of the trade teh Charwal between, Progs., Nos. 15(53)-W, 

3020 

WAR 1944 

Goa, and Gwadeer, and the 1944 (Secret) 

Persian Gulf. 


3021 execution, Publicity Committee 

(Foreign). 

Instructions that the terms of 

services considered suitable 

should be communicated to the 

Competent Authority concerned 

3022 when the service of an individual 

for civilian services are asked for 

under the Natrional service 

(European British Subjects)Act 

1940. 

Review of the exciting delegation 

of powers under the Defence of 

India rules to consider the effect 

3023 

of amendments to the rules 

Subsquent to the date of 

delegations. 


WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(61)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Internees from Persia--- Transfer 

of Mrs. T. Kubrik to Australia to 

enable her to join her husband Progs., 

3024 

there. Question of the incidence of 1944 

her passages from India to 

Australia. 

Nos. 32(5)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Import Trade control Prohibition of 

import of currency notes Cheques 

Progs., 

3025 etc, Notifications issued under 

1944 

Section 19 of the Sea Customs Act 

1878. 

Nos. 16(2)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Escape of certain German 

internees from Dehra Dun to 

Tibet. Request to the Tibetan 

3026 

Govt. to apprehend the escaped 

and to hand over to the Govt. of 

India. 


WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

External Affairs Dept. Weekly 

3027 Summaries from 5th Jan. 1944 to 

3rd Jan 1945. 


3028 

Poland & Poles. 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(30)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Amendments to the War Injuries 

ordanance 1941 the war Injuries Progs., Nos. 18(75)-W, 

3029 

WAR 1944 

Scheme 1942 and the war Injuries 1944 

Regulation 1942. 

Application by Mr. A.A. Windle for 

permission for Mr. A.J. Musil, a 

Czech whose movements have 

been restricted to his residence 

3030 

and Highclare School at 

Kodaikanal to go to Ahmedabad 

for 2 and half months as 

instructor to his son. 


WAR 1944 

1944 

of cypher facilities to the Hony, 

Consul at Calcutta. 4. Warning to 

the Chinese Commissioner and 

Consul General for persia and 

Progs., Nos. 9-W, 1944 

3031 France that Fact that Censorship 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) (B) 

concessions have been granted to 

their subordinate Consuls in India 

should not be divilged to any third 

party. 

Distribution of information by 

Censor stations to officials of 

3032 Central Govt. deptt. stationed in 

the same locality as the Censor 

station. 

Publication in the O Heraldo Mova 

Goa, of the new three British 

Ships that visited mormugao. 

Request to H.M.`s Consul, Nova 

3033 Goa, that he should impress upon 

the protuguese authorities the 

vital necessity of keeping secret 

the Movements of British and 

Allied ships. 

Weekly News letters issued by 

3034 Reuters India------ Compalint 

from Indian Agency General, 

Progs., Nos. 42(31)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. (2)-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(43)-W, 

WAR 1944 




WAR 

Chungking, in regard to 

undersirable matter published in 

the ---- suggestion that ---- 

should circulate on a facgual 

representation of the amny 

aspects of affairs in India of which 

the Chinese display such 

ignorance.... 

Question of disposal of certain 

Polish Army personnel who were 

3035 

sent Iraq to India for fitting of 

artificial limbs. 

Stoppage of a remittance of Rs. 

500/- from the Spanish Consul at 

Bombay to Captain Toschi Eliosan 

escaped Italian Prisoners of 

3036 War in Portugese India. Decision 

to vest the amount in the 

Custodian of Enemy Property in 

India and to stop all further 

remittances from ......... 


Intercepts relating to Pasni and 

Gwadar trade Enquiry from the 

3037 Revenue commissioner in 

Baluchistan regarding his 

requirement of Censorship 

reports. 

3038 Import of Goods of Swiss Origin. 

Policy in regard to to in ward 

3039 

press Censorship. 

Circular letter from Commerce 

Deptt. regarding supply of 

3040 information by private firms to 

Foreign Journals etc., in regard to 

industries established in India. 



censorship. 


3042 



WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


WAR 1944 

1944(B) 

Progs., Nos. 42(19)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(44)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(54)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


W(Volume 

1944(Secret) 

I), WAR 1944 

Progs., Nos. 42(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 



WAR 

Repatriation of Commandante 

Count Camillo Milese Ferretti, and 

escaped Italian Prisoner of war in 

Portuguese India. 2. Censorship 

interceptes regarding remittances Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1944 

3043 

WAR 1944 

of money to Count Ferretti sent (Secret) (A) 

via Lishon, and hsi repatriation. 3. 

Position regarding remittance of 

funds to German and Italian 

Crews in Goa....... 

An intercepted letter from Ahmed 

Ali, Kabul Coy: Amritsar, to 

Mohammed Khan Abdullah Khan, 

3044 

Kandhahar regarding issue of 

licences for Kandahar Goods Via 

Peshawar and sale thereof. 

Coordination of requisitioning of 

land building etc. Procedure for 

providing office and residential 

3045 

accomodations in Bombay and 

Calcutta for Civil Deptt. of the 

Govt. of India. 

Progs., Nos. 59(18)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Export Trade Control----Goods to 

be taken to Persia by Major Toby 

for the personal use of the staff of Progs., Nos. 59(24)-W, 

3046 

WAR 1944 

Middle East Relief and Refugee 1944 

Administration and of the British 

Embassy Tehran. 

The Discipline of Seamen 

3047 

(Amendment) Ordinance 1944. 

Censorship Interception------(1) 

3048 

Iraq (2) Persian Gulf. 

Review of the cases of refugees 

anti-Nazis etc. in detention in 

3049 internment Camps and parole 

centres Decision regarding their 

release etc. 

Leakage of information through 

3050 

technical and other publications. 

3051 Free Danes movement in India. 

Progs., Nos. 18(47)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 59(43)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 59(32)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

3052 Foreign Publicity Control Board. Progs., Nos. 66(6)-W, WAR 1944 



WAR 

Minutes of the meetings etc. 1944 Secret 

Enquiry whether Omnipol, Ekrem 

and Moscowitz identicial with the 

3053 statutory listed A.G. Omnipol, 

Uran Ekrem and Rubin Moscovits, 

Istanbul. 

League of Nations-------Report of 

the Informal Inter-Allied 

3054 Committee on the future of the 

Permanent Court of International 

Justice. 

The criminal Law Amendment 

3055 

ordinance 1944. 

Suspension and resumption of 

telegraphic and postal 

communications, between India 

3056 and other Foreign Countries. 2. 

Suspension of Indian Red Cross 

Postal Message service to corsica 

and allied occupied Italy. 

Transit Trade to Afghanistan -- 

supply of valves and wireless 

3057 equipment for the Afghan 

Ministry, of Posts, Telegraphs and 

telephones. 

Censorship of official mails 

3058 addressed to H.M. Consul 

Kandahar. 

Procedure for the repatriation of 

3059 Italian Civilians now in territory 

under Allied Control. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59(40)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 18(65)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 12-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(15)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(14)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Purchase by Nritish Red Cross 

Mission Washington of religious 

symbols for India prisoners of War 

Progs., Nos. 31(12)-W, 

3060 in Japanese hands. Enquiry as to 

WAR 1944 

1944 

the number of India prisoners 

belonging to the different 

communities. 

Question of exemption from 

Customs examination of official Progs., Nos. 11-W, 1944 

3061 

WAR 1944 

correspondence carried by Messrs. (Secret) 

Khoskov and Prokhin, Proceeding 



WAR 

by air to Tehran and Thence 

Moscow. 

Food Situation in India------All 

3062 India Reports on the Food 

position. 

Relief and rehabitation measures 

3063 in the Manipur State in regard 

Manipuris rendered homeless. 


Efforts by Capt. Schmidt, one of 

the German Crews interned in 

Aguada, Goa, to get repatriated 

3064 

on account of his old age and 

failing health ------- Alleged 

Anglo-German exchange in 

Mormugao. 

Question of transmitting to the 

Spanish Consul at Bombay the 

declarations of Loyalty to the 

Republican Fascist Govt. made by 

3065 

certain Italian internees. Decision 

to with hold them on the ground 

that the Spanish Consul cannot 

.......... 

Air Raid Precautions. 

Miscellaneous Circulars issued by 

3066 

the Defence Deptt. (Civil Defence 

Branch ) on Air Raid Precautions. 

Transmission of certain papers 

belonging to Mr. J.T. Asquith, 

3067 Allied Supplies Excutive 

Secretariat Representative at 

Chungking, to London by bag. 

Objectionable articles published in 

the Chinese Journal of India. 

3068 Decision to with hold supply of 

paper to the journal of any future 

objectionable articles is in it. 

Comments by all India, Radio, on 

3069 Russian demand for oil 

concession, in Persia. 

Progs., Nos. 59(48)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 32(20)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 42(24)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944(A) 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 41(20)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 65(38)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 65(59)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

3070 Details of enemy owned assets in Progs., Nos. 36-W, WAR 1944 



WAR 

Afghanistan. 1944(Secret) 

Provision of passages certain 

Czechwrak Volunteers. Ban on the Progs., Nos. 28(12)-W, 

3071 

WAR 1944 

allottm,ent of passages to United 1944 

Kingdom for Allied Volunteers. 

Questions of the disposal of Mr. A. 

Wamwetzos-a greek subject 

3072 evacuated from Egypt to India at 

the instance of the Greak Govt. 

Departure of from India to Egypt. 

Progs., 

1944 

Nos. 30(2)-W, 

WAR 1944 

Assistance to escaped Italian 

Prisoners of War, in Portugese 

India by the Spanish Consul at 

3073 Bombay. 2) Decision that the 

Spanish Consul has no locus 

standi in the protection of Italian 

interests in Portugese India. 


WAR 1944 

1944(A) 

4. Grant of Facilities to 

commandant Ferretti to 

correspond telegraphically with his 

brother in Madruid in regard to his 

repatriation. 5. Advance of funds 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1944 

3074 by the Delegate of the Indian Red 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) (B) 

Cross Committee to 

Commandante ferretti to meet 

repatriation, expenses, etc. 6. 

Question of the repatriation of 

Cap. Toschi Elios and..... 


3075 

Patertion Syria. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


Progs., Nos. 42(12)-W, 

3076 Portugal. Portugese Possessions in 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

India. 

Appointments of Controllers, 

Custodians, inspectors, etc., of 

3077 

enemy trading, enemy firms and 

enemy property. 

Question of the entry into India of 

certain American citizens of 

3078 Japanese extraction to assist in 

psychological warfare work in 

India and Burma. 

Progs., Nos. 34-W, 1944 WAR 1944 


WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

Permission to Dr. Saib Adil Baer, 

Commerical Representative of the 

3079 Turkish Govt., to exercise the 

Privilege under telegraph 

censorship vice Mr. T.C. Boray. 

Progs., Nos. 11(34)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Statement made by the Australian 

Prime Minister (Mr. J.Curtin) in the 

Progs., Nos. 59(23)-W, 

3080 Australian parliament Canberra on 

WAR 1944 

1944 

February 9th 1944 regarding the 

war against Germany and Japan. 


Telegram from Wangyubno liking 

3081 to Chokochung Kalimpong 

regarding Smuggling of illegal 

Goods to China via Tibet. 

in censorship to the U.S. 

Authorities. 4. Liaison between 

Censorship control Dept. and the 

3082 

American Authorities on 

occasional stops of the more 

provocation, U.S. magazines. 

Memorandum by Major C.A.G. 

Savidge, Director, of Public 

3083 

Relatios, Tehran, on future policy 

of British PRopaganda in persia. 


3084 Japan and Japanese occupied 

Territories. 2) Siam. 

Progs., Nos. 42(39)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(33)-W, 

WAR 1944 


Progs., Nos. 65(31)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(35)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Censorship Interception-----Iraq & Progs., Nos. 42(4)- 

3085 WAR 1944 

Persian Gulf. 

W(Part II), 1944(Secret) 

Internees from Persia------ 

Question of return of Mrs. Von 

3086 Kamen and her son German 

nationals who were sent from 

Persia for internment in India. 


Letter from Famous cine Lithos 

3087 

worls Bombay regarding the 

proposed match factory in Goa. 


3088 Information regarding shippers to 

whom export licences have been 

Progs., Nos. 32(13)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 42(27)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(126)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 



WAR 

refused. 

Export Trade Control----- 

Portuguese India------Alleged re- 

3089 export of gur and matches of 

British Indian Origin from 



WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Censorship Inperceptions -Req. 

despatch of Chinese notes by 

Progs., Nos. 42(21)-W, 

3090 Charged Bank Karachi on behalf of 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Peter Woo to Chungking for 

realization. 

Air Raid Precautions.Policy 

3091 

regarding Civil Defence. 

Complaint from Mr. Scllin, editor, 

of the Annual of American 

Academy of Political and Social 

3092 Science regarding non-arrival of 

certsain articles in Social and 

Economic problems, India written 

by Sir Manilal Nanavati. 

Air passages for Allied volunteers 

3093 

etc. Question of providing--- 

Progs., Nos. 49(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 28(36)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Export trade Control-- Cotton 

waste Cotton-Waste Yarn, Cotton- Progs., Nos. 15(89)-W, 

3094 

WAR 1944 

Waste Rope and Cotton, Twist 1944 (Secret) 

Waste. 

Exemption from the provisions of 

para 5 and 6 of the Enemy 

Foreigners Order 1939, of Mrs. 

Progs., Nos. 28(32)-W, 

3095 Elizabeth Dank-an Austrian Jewish 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Refugee -- employed on certain 

confidential work by the External 

Affairs Deptt. 

Article in the Illustrated weekly of 

India Entitled India to Europe by 

3096 rail Attention of the paper drawn 

to the mistake about extension of 

the railway to Herat. 

Progs., Nos. 59(61)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Agendas & minutes of the 

Interdepartmental in meatings 

3097 

held in connection with 

commercial publicity to the Middle 

Progs., Nos. 65(10)-W, 

WAR 

1944(Secret) 

1944 



WAR 

East. 

Censorship 

3098 Interception.......Persia and 

Persian`s. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Proposal to establish a publicity in 

India Tehran for commercial 

Publicity in Persia 2. Proposal to 

establish a small publicity 

organization in the Middle East Progs., Nos. 65(58)-W, 

3099 

WAR 1944 

with headquarters at Baghdad and 1944 Secret (A) 

also to locate there a small unit of 

the all India Radio. 3. Question of 

instructing officer under E.A. 

Dept. serving abroad to regard.... 

Enquiry whether Adil Pekyar, 

Istanbul, is connnected or 

3100 

identical with the statutory listed 

pekyar (Pekiar), Ylyas, Instanbul. 

Censorship Interceptions----- 

3101 

Pasni & Gwadur trade. 


3102 

Austria Saudi Arabia. Aden. 

Indian tolls the world pamphlet 

3103 entitled--- a study in Foreign 

Publicity issued by the P.O (F). 


3104 

Reports. 

Prisoners of War and Internees -- 

3105 Exchange of Prisoners of War and 

civilian internees with Germany. 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(44)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 


WAR 1944 

1944(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(32)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


WAR 1944 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 31(11)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 

Export Trade Control -----Quota of 


3106 tyres and tubes for the Portuguese 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Possessions in India for 1944. 

the Spanish Consul to Captain 

Toschi Elios via British India and 

to vest them in the Custodian. 4) 

Question of asking the Spanish 

3107 

consul to hand over to the 

Custodian of Enemy property all 

balances held by Him on behalf of 

Captain Tosch Elios. 

Progs., Nos. 

1944(C) 

31(3)-W, 

WAR 1944 

3108 Only Slip is available. Progs., Nos. 31(13)-W, WAR 1944 



WAR 

operate from India for radio 

3109 messages to the Netherlands 

Indies. 

1944 

Progs., Nos. 41(19)-W, 

WAR 1944 


Publication of time and news week 

Progs., Nos. 65(44)-W, 

3110 from Calcutta by the American 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Govt. 

Loss of Currency notes from a 

registered cover sent by Thomas 

3111 Cook & Sons. Ltd., Bombay, to 

Thomas Cook & Sons. Ltd., 

Baghdad-----investigation of ----- 


Afghanistan--- Supply of medical 

3112 and veterinary stores for the 

Afghan Army receovery of their 

cost. 

Memorandum on the Security of 

3113 Shipping information, issued by 

the Admiralty London. 

Guidance note on psychological 

warfare directed to Indian in 

Japanese occupied territories 2. 

3114 Directive on Psychological warfare 

against the so-called Indian 

National, Army and in enemy 

occupied territory. 

2480 

2481 

2482 

2483 

Disposal of certain Indian 

Prisoners of war stated to be in 


Agenda & minister of the Foreign 

Publicity Board meetings. 

Conscripation of nederlands 

subejcts in India. 

Progs., Nos. 59(53)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 15(62)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 13-W, 1944 

WAR 1944 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(48)-W, 

WAR 1944 

1944 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 66-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Restriction, on the entry into and 


passage through India, of Foreign 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Couriers. 

Presence in hospital at Nepalganj 

in Nepal of a Chinese Soldier who Progs., Nos. 60-W, 1945 

2484 

WAR 1945 

was Subsequently handed over by Secret 

the Nepalese Authorities to the 



WAR 

2485 

2486 

2487 

2488 

2489 

2490 

2491 

3115 

3116 

Chinese Consul General at 

Calcutta. 

French Establishment in India.--- 

Stay of French Troops in Madras 

for taking part in Military Tattoo. 

Progs., Nos. 64-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 

Directives issued by the Publicity 

---Planning & Co-Ordination 

Board Information & Broadcasting 

Progs., Nos. 65(31)-W, 

Dept. Minutes of the meetings of 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

the publicity planning & Co- 

Ordination Board Information & 

Broadcasting Dept. 

Censorship of Enemy 


Tranamission of 2 brief cases of 

Lieut. Brooks (Raja Muda of 

Sarawak) to the India Office, 

London for onward transmission. 

Adjustment of expenditure 

incurred on the despatch of the 

cases. 


Afghanistan. Foreigners in 

Afghanistan. 

The Civil Affairs, (Malaya) Police 

Force (Discipline) Ordinance, 

1945. 

Transmission of a private letter 

by the Swedish Consul General, 

at Bombay, to Mrs. Belatini 

Hadzey Duci, a Hungarian Lady. 

Enquiry from the Swedish Consul 

General Whether the letter was 

presented for censorship. 

Treatment of `duration of the 

war` expenditure sanction------- 

Statement showing expenditure 

sanctioned by War Branch since 

the outbreak of war. 

Concession under telegram 

censorship to non-Consul and 

Non- diplomatic officials in India, 

Progs., Nos. 42(16)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(22)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(11)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 96-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 



WAR 

3117 

3118 

3119 

3120 

3121 

3122 

3123 

3124 

3125 

of the alliged Govt. 

Victory Parade during the Victory 

Week in Delhi. Participation of the 

Progs., Nos. 

various units of Indian Army and 

1945 (Secret) 

Napalease Contingent in the 

Parade. 

73(6)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Victory celebrations on the 

Collapse of Germany. Grant of 

funds to officers etc. under the E. 

A. Deptt. for-----. 

Medical examination by mixed 

Medical Commission of Itlian 

Prisoners of war to determine 

their eligibility for repatriation. 

Progs., Nos. 73-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31-W, 1945 WAR 1945 

Reduction in the staturoy list as a 


resul of the cessation of hostilities 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

in Europe. 

Question for the award of the 

Progs., Nos. 79-W, 1945 

1939-45 Star to Lt. Colonel Hardy 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

A. Kemp, U.S.A. (Medical Corps.). 

Internees from Persia--- Question 

of release & repatriation to 

Denmark of Mr. Storch Nielsen & 

Count Henning Holstein Danish 

internees from Persia. 

Request from French Red Cross 

Committee, Pondicherry, for 

Facilities to send food parcels to 

French prisoners of war in 

Germany, & for permission to 

send individual Red Cross parcels 

to France. 2. Railway freight 

concessions for the Stores 

belonging to the French Red 

Cross Committee, Pondicherry. 

Policy Governing issue of identity 

documents to Allied officers by 

the military authorities. 

Complaint from Consul General, 

Kashgar Regarding the delay in 

forwarding certain letters for 

Kashgar. 2. Question of 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 69-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 



WAR 

establishment of a Censor Bureau 

in the Agency office at Gilgit For 

censoring letters that reach Gilgit 

uncensored. 

Amendments to the Motor Vehicle Progs., Nos. 18(17)-W, 

3126 WAR 1945 

Sapare parts Control Order, 1944. 1945 (Secret) 

3127 

3128 

3129 

3130 

3131 

3132 

3133 

3134 

3135 

Paper from the D.M.I. regarding 

the probable effect on Japan of 

the defeat of Germany. 

Withdrawal of speical machinery 

for carrying on the administration 

in the event of hostile action, 

within India, providing for a 

succession of officers. 

Press Control-- Relaxation of the 

Provision of -- instructions for 

war. 

Jurisdiction of the Govt. of India, 

over Foreign Shipping in the 

Indian Territorial waters. 

The Mines (Amendment) 


Censorship arrangments in the 

Persian Gulf. 2. Enquiry by the 

D.C. and S.C. (India) regarding 

censorship in Kuwait. 3. 

Withdrawal of censorship in 

Persian Gulf Shaikdoms and 

Muscat. 

Concession under posts and 

Telegraph censorship to Foreign 

Consualr representative in India. 

Correspondence with Germany- 

Depatch of Postal articles to 

enemy territory. 2. Closing down 

of Thomas Cook Postal Message 

Scheme. 

Withdrawal of concession granted 

under the telegraphic and postal 

censorship to the Polish Consular 

Officers in India. 

Progs., Nos. 6-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 25-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(24)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 9-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

3136 Censorship interceptions---- Progs., Nos. 42-W, 1945 WAR 1945 



WAR 

3137 

3138 

China and Chinese Tibet ; Japan 

and Japanese-occupied 

territories. 

Appointment of publicity officers 

abroad. 

Excess profits tax (Amendemt) 


(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(43)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(30)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Clossing down of the war 

watching and coast watching Progs., Nos. 44-W, 1945 

3139 

WAR 1945 

Organization on the West Coast of Secret 

India. 

3140 

3141 

3142 

3143 

3144 

3145 

3146 

3147 

International red cross visits to 

Prisoners of war camps in 

Japanese occupied territory. 

Relaxation of Civil postal and 

telegraph censorship in India. 

Contraband Control 1. Ship 

Navicerts. 2. Goods, Navicerts. 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 23-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Removal of restrictions imposed Progs., Nos. 33(7)-W, 

WAR 1945 

on British subject of Italian origin. 1945 (Secret) 

Transmission of correspondence 

from the I.R.C.C. Delegate, Simla 

to I.R.C.C. Delegate, Tehran 

through E. A. Department bag. 

Cancellation of notifications, 

regarding the bringing into India 

of Bank of England notes and the 

sale to the reserve Bank of India 

of Bank of England notes. 

Regarding advance of pay to 

Chinese ex-prisoner of war. 

(i)Security measures in 

connection with the mounting of 

major operations from the India 

Base Question of withdrawing 

Concessions granted to foreign 

diplomatic and Consular officer 

under postal and telegraph 

censorship (ii)Warning to certain 

foreign consular officers not to 

exchange uncensored private 

correspondence in their official 

Progs., Nos. 41(11)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 31(13)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 




WAR 

3148 

3149 

3150 

3151 

3152 

3153 

3154 

3155 

bags which are immune from 

Censorship 

Monitoring Reports from the Far 

Eastern Bureau, New Delhi. 

Repetition of Weekly Political 

Appreciation and Monthly 

appreciation for Dominion 

telegram to H.M.Embassy 

Moscow. 

Question of porsecution of Mr. 

Tisell, Senedish of a statutory- 

Listed Swedish Firms for trade 

purposes. 


Nepal & Nepalese. 

Proposal of the American 

Authorities to reprint the India 

`Chicago Daily Tribune` and the 

New York Times. 

Prior approval of A.F.H.O. before 

dispatching Civil personnel to 

Mediterranean and Balkan 

countries from India. 

Censorship Interceptions----- 

China and Chinese. Tibet-Japan & 

Japanese Occupied Territories. 

Procedure for requisitioning 

immovable property under the 

Defense of India Rules. 


3157 

3158 

Constitutions & Function of the 

Claims Commission- (India). 2. 

Policy of mutual forchearance in 

respect of claims against U. S. 

Forces. 

Transmission of Archives to the 

Estonian Legation, London, 

Consequent on the Closing down 

of the Estonian Consulate at 

Calcutta. 

Progs., Nos. 65(56)-W, 

WAR 1945 


Progs., Nos. 65(32)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(12)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(29)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 19-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 76-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

3159 Interrogation report of 22379 Progs., Nos. 28(4)-W, WAR 1945 



WAR 

Sypoy Hakim Khan of 7/10 Baluch 1945 (Secret) 

a refugees from Burma--- 

Transmission of the report to 

Political Agent, Dir Swat and 

Chitral. 

3160 LUWO INEIQNQ OR 

3161 

3162 

3163 

3164 

3165 

3166 

3167 

Censorship of mails and 

telegrams to and from Goa. 2. 

Re-opening of the Goa wireless 

station to private telegraph 

traphic. 

Provision of a passage to the 

Middle east to Doctor Raja Leon 

Mangal, a Polish volunteer. 

Progs., Nos. 355O 

e4OTQ4IQ 

(Secret) 

-W, 1945 WAR 1945 

Progs., Nos. 11(19)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 28-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Message of congratulation from 

H. H. the Maharaja of Bhutan to 

H. H. King Emperor and H. E. the 

viceroy on the conclusion of the 

European war. 2. Messages of 

congratulations from the Indian 

Progs., Nos. 

1945 (Secret) 

73(4)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Ruling Chief under E. A. Deptt. on 

victory over Japan. 

Enquiry regarding release of an 

Italian prisoner- Bochicchio No. 

16 F. O3 Camp No. 28. 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Complaints regarding censership 

of certain letters, addressed to 

the Afghan Consul General and 

the General for Iran in India. 2. 

Instructions, to the Afghan 

General and Iranian Consul 

General that their inward, official 

Progs., Nos. 

1945 Secret 

9(2)-W, 

WAR 1945 

mails should also bear the official, 

seals of the officer of origin, and 

should be properly franked. 




Security gaps on India eastern 

Frontier question of withdrawal of 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 



WAR 

3168 

3169 

3170 

3171 

censorship privileges granted to 

non-diplomatic and non-non- 

Consular officials of Foreign 

Govts. 

Question of release of the assests 

of Messrs. Skoda (India) Limited 

vested in the Custodian of Enemy 

Property for India. 

Progs., Nos. 36-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Censorship of D.E.M.S. Rating 

Mails.... Proposed transmission of 

private mails from British or allied 

Progs., Nos. 

vessels at Goa. to the Officer 

1945 Secret 

Commading, Censor Station, 

Bombay, through H.M.`s Consul 

Nova Goa. 

11(7)-W, 

WAR 1945 

The Paper control (Economy) 

order, 1945. 

Capt. Elios Toschi- an expand 

Italian prisoners of war in 

Portuguese India, Attitude of the 

Govt. of India in repatriation to 

Italy. 

Progs., Nos. 18(86)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Papers porduced by the Reference 

Progs., Nos. 65(22)-W, 

3172 and Research division by the 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

I.and B. Deptt. 

3173 

3174 

3175 

3176 

3177 L 

Future of the Information and 

Broadcasting Deptt. Position 

regarding External Publicity. 

Abuse of the official bag of the 

Chinese consul General at 

Calcutta for the Conveyance of 

private correspondence. 

Security Education Handbook 

(Civilian) issued by the 

Department of Information and 

Broadcasting. 

The International monetary fund 

and Bank ordinance, 1945. 

Progs., Nos. 65(49)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 65(36)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(83)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 355O 

e4OTQ4IQ W5Q5U5O4Y - WAR 

W, 1945 (Sec 

1945 

3178 Question of the release of Mr. Progs., Nos. 32(24)-W, WAR 1945 



WAR 

3179 

3180 

3181 

3182 

3183 

3184 

3185 

3186 

3187 

Antone Seeman from the Civil 

Internment Camp at Dehradun. 

1945 (Secret) 

Proposed despatch of Consular 

Mail through Monsieur Rikli by the Progs., Nos. 

Consul General for Switzerland at 1945 Secret 

Bombay. 

9(10)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Censorship intercepts regarding 

Cap. Elios Toschi and Lt. 

Pasqualinno Anastasio two 

escaped Italian P.O.W. in 


Censorship Interceptions---- India 

and Indians. 

Question of powers of search 

being been to Censor officers 

employed at the Hellgate Check 

post on the Ledo Road. 

Recruitment in the United 

Kingdom of Volunters from 

abroad to assist in the British war 

effort------ Foreign office circular. 

Ordinance amending the Defence 

of India, Act 1939. 

Instructios, applicable to Civilan 

Govt. officials of the Gazetted 

rank regarding travellers 

censorship 2. Authorities granted 

by the E.A. Dept. to certain Govt. 

officials proceeding ex-India for 

exemption from examination of 

officials carried by them. 

Complaint by Dr. Sir 

S.S.Bhatnagar regarding vicious 

propaganda in U.S.A. against 

India. 

Cancellation of notifications, 

issued by the External Affairs 

Dept. 1. declaring the Khyber as 

a protected area and 2. imposing 

restrictions on entry and 

residence in the tribal areas 

under the charge of the Political 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(11)-W, 

1945 (Secret) 

WAR 1945 

Progs., Nos. 11(15)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 92-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(31)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 65(26)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 



WAR 

3188 

3189 

3190 

3191 

3192 

3193 

3194 

3195 

3196 

3197 

Agent, Kurram. 2. Withdrawsal of 

restrictions, on Foreigners in 

Assam and the Chitagong Division 

of Bengal. 


Palestine. Syria. 

Grant of secret bag facilities to 

the Italian Govt. for use in 

correspondence with their 

representative a broad. 2. 

Restoration of diplomatic bag 

facilities and exemption from 

censorship of official Mail 

addressed to or emanating from 

the Italian Legation in Kabul. 

Broadcast by Emperor Hirohito on 

the surrender of Japan. 

Application from Miss Hilda Vogel 

who was received from Persia for 

safe custody in India praying for 

her release. 

The Limitation (War Condition) 


Progress reports of the 

Publication Division of the I.&.B. 

department. 

Enquiry from U.S. Mission 

regarding German owned 

diplomatic or consular real Estate 

in India and whether any 

buildings had been erected on 

any such real Estate. 

Disposal of material Impounded 

in Postal & Traveller`s 

Censorship. 

Transmission of messages of the 

Cable and Wireless Co., to and 

from the Persian Gulf through 

Official channels. 

Publication of incorrect 

information regarding Shaikh of 

Bahrain in Arab Listners. 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(16)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 32(15)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(52)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 

Progs., Nos. 42(15)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 

Progs., Nos. 65(46)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 



WAR 

3198 

3199 

3200 

3201 

3202 

3203 

3204 

Amendment to the memorandum 

on Security of Shipping 

information, issued by the 

Admiralty, London. 2. Abduction 

of all naval restrictions, relating 

to the security of merchant 

shipping which was imposed as 

war-time measures. 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Agenda and Minutes of the 


meeting of the Executive Publicity 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Committee (Foreign). 

Correspondence from the 

Statutory listed firm of Kaloderma 

A. G., Waldenburger Strasse 1. 

Basle, Switzerland, to M/S 

Aboody Yacool Zeloof & Sons, 

Bahrain, Persian Gulf. 

Progs., Nos. 

1945 (Secret) 

35(6)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Guidance from H.M.G. on handing 

of Syria and Lebanon situation in 

A.I.R.`s Arabic 

broadcasts.Question of stopping 

transit telegrams from France to 

Kabul on Syria and Lebanon 

situation and containing 

objectionable material. 

Publication in the French 

Newsletter issued by theFrench 

Information Bureau New Delhi, of 

Comments on the Syria and 

Lebanon situation strongly 

criticising Great Britain. 

Treatment of enemy foreigners in 

the port war. 

Request from the N.W.F.P. Govt. 

that H. M. Legation, Kabul, be 

asked to transmit to them, in 

advance , itineraries of enemy 

aliens visiting India. 

Progs., Nos. 65(34)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 33(10)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 33-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Request from the Governor 

General of portuguese 

possessions in India for 

permission, as a special case, to 

transfer Italian Army Lt. Anderline 

Progs., Nos. 

1945 Secret 

31(7)-W, 

WAR 1945 



WAR 

3205 

3206 

3207 

3208 

3209 

3210 

Edmondo and Gia Luigi- two 

escaped Italian P.O.W-, now 

interned in Daman, to Goa via 

British India, under escort. 

D.C.and S.C. Policy lettes 

regarding 1. Concessions granted 

under telegraph censorship to 

Foreign Diplomatic and Consular 

officer in India. 2. Diplomatic 

mails, and 3. Postal 

correspondence of the Foreign 

Consular and Visa Officer in India. 

Progs., Nos. 

1945 Secret 

9(3)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Repatriation of Indian Prisoners of 

war from Hanoi, Indo-China. 

Release of an American citizen of 

German birth named Hans 

Richard Schilling, interned in the 

Central Internment camp. at 

Dahra Dun. 

Adherrence fo certain countries to 

the Declaration by United 

Nations. 2. Exemption to service 

personnel of U.N. arriving in 

India, on duty from the provisions 

of the Foreigners Order, 1939 3. 

Amendments to the list of 

Empire, Neutral, Allied and 

Enemy territories. 

Proposal to issue a press note 

regarding the continuance of 

Economic controls. 

Notes on outward press Messages 

of Political interest seen in 

Censorship. 

Progs., Nos. 31(12)-W, 

1945 Secret 

WAR 1945 

Progs., Nos. 32(11)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(10)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(44)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 

(Technical Personnel) ordinance 

1940. The National, Service Progs., Nos. 18(28)-W, 

3211 

WAR 1945 

(Technical Personnel) Amendment 1945 (Secret) (B) 

ordinance, 1946. 

3212 

Censorship concession for Mr. 

N.F. Kalmanovitc, representation, 

of the Trade Agent of the U.S.S. 

R. in India. 

Progs., Nos. 11(17)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 



WAR 

3213 

3214 

3215 

3216 

3217 

3218 

3219 

3220 

3221 

3222 

3223 

3224 

Necessity for commpliance with 

the provisions rules 119 of the 

Defence of India, Rules in th 

matter fo publishing orders issued 

those rules. 


Sinkiang. 

Internees from Persia. Request 

from Mr. Nicholazus Ausberg, one 

of the German internees from 

Persia for release to return to 

Tehran. 

India repatriation claims against 

Germany and Japan Claim in 

respect of losses at Sea due to 

enemy action, of goods ordered 

on Govt. account. 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Instructions issued to the Vienna 

Police during the war regarding Progs., Nos. 32(27)-W, 

WAR 1945 

the internment of British Subjects 1945 (Secret) 

and protected persons. 


Russia and Russians. 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Internees in India--- Question of 

return of Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Von 

Kamen and their sons Alfred. Progs., Nos. 32(20)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Rolf, German Nationals who were 1945 (Secret) 

sent from Persia for internment in 

India. 

The Armed Force (speical Powers) 

Amendment ordinance, 1945. 

Censorship Interceptions. Weekly 

Reports on India. Fortnightly 

reports on Far East, Middle East, 

Africa and Australia. 

Resumption of telegraphic and 

postal communicatios, between 

India and other Countries. 


Reports. 

Subject : - Progress Reports of 

the Foreign publicity planning 

Progs., Nos. 18(55)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 



WAR 

3225 

3226 

3227 

3228 

3229 

3230 

3231 

3232 

office, I. & B. Department, and 

the Research and Reference 

Division Information & 

Broadcasting Department. 

The Criminal Law (1944 

Amendment) Amending 

ordinance, 1945. 

Report by Director-General All 

India Radio on the First 

Commonwealth Broadcasting 

Conference held in London. 

Report of Lt. Col. D.M.L. Honnes 

ey I.A. who was a P.W. in Mukden 

Until released by the Russian on 

the necessity of British 

Representation at Mukden. 

War Resources Committee of 

Council ---------- Priorities. 

Right of United Nation to decide 

upon ultimate disposal of All 

Enemy vessels aircraft that may 

reach territory of countries that 

have not declared war on Axis 

nations. Demarche to the Saudi 

Arabian and Afghan Govts. to 

return and preserve intact such 

vessels and aircraft pending final 

disposal. 

Complaint from the Chinese 

Commissioner againts the 

opening of certian diplomatic 

packets in transit of India. 

Establishment of a war museum 

displaying India`s War effort in 

the Military Social and Industrial 

Aspects. Proposed exchange of 

exhibits with U.S. war museum. 

Import Trade Control,--- Forward 

programms of requirements from 

abroad for the period July-- 

December. 

Progs., Nos. 18(21)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(42)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


1945 Secret 

WAR 1945 

Progs., Nos. 70-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 55-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(18)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 65(17)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 16-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

3233 Correction lists containing Progs., Nos. 19(6)-W, WAR 1945 



WAR 

3234 

3235 

3236 

3237 

3238 

3239 


India, Act, 1939 and the Rule 

made thereunder. 

1945 (Secret) 

Persian broadcasts from B.B.C. 

Suggestion from H.M.Ambassador 

Tehran that -----should contain 

references to Internal affairs in 

Persia.Resumption of foreign 

broadcasts from Tehran Radio. 

Progs., Nos. 65(30)-W, 

WAR 

1945 Secret 

1945 

Messages of congratulations on 

victories in Europe and Burma. 

Amendments to the Foreigners 

Orders, 1939. 

Disire of of Capt. Ettore Sessi, 

formerly 3rd officer on the Italian 

Anfora and now at Libirty at Goa 

to Surrender to the British 

authorities in order to be placed 

on war work. 

The Bill of exchange ordinance, 

1946. 


Persia and Persians. 

3240 Passes for I.N.A. Trials. 

3241 

3242 

3243 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(67)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 42(10)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Enquiry from the French Consul 

General at Calcutta as to the 

origin of certain letter with French 

Military Censorship stamps which Progs., Nos. 11(13)-W, 

WAR 1945 

were posted at Calcutta and seen 1945 Secret 

in Censorship there 2. Censorship 

stamps use by French India, 

Censors. 

Instructios, to diplomatic, 

Consular and certain non- 

Consular Officers in India, 

regarding route indications, on 

telegrams sent from India to 

other Countries. 

Disposal of unexploded bombs 

and other missiles. Amendments 

to the Civil Defence Circular 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 



WAR 

3244 

3245 

3246 

3247 

3248 

regarding crashed & Force- 

Landed Aircraft. 

Death of L. Schmaderer, a 

German internee, in Tibet. 

Progs., Nos. 32(13)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Enquiry from Mr. Ghulam 

Rabbassi, clerk British consulate 

MEshad regarding whereabouts of Progs., Nos. 31(14)-W, 

WAR 1945 

his brother Capt. M.G. Tilani of 1945 Secret 

19th Hyd. Regiment who was 

taken prisoner of war in Malaya. 

Proposed exchange of prisoners 

of war and internee camps 

strength with Japan. 

Anti-British articles by the 

`Hindustan Times` Special 

Correspondent in Saigon. 

Question of securing access to 

and exploiting Japanese official 

and non official records and 

archives both in Japan and in 

territories liberated from 

Japanese occupation (other than 

diplomatic and Consular 

Archives). 

Progs., Nos. 31(18)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 65(55)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Disposal of enemy Nationals and 

property unconered by occupation Progs., 

3249 

forces in South East Asia 1945 

Command. 

Nos. 36(4)-W, 

WAR 1945 

3250 

Export Trade Control-- Dissolution 

of Middle east Supply center-- 

Instructions, regarding coordination, 

arrangements in 

regard to exports t M.E. 

Territories. 

Progs., Nos. 15(37)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Handbook for junior Programme Progs., Nos. 48(2)-W, 

3251 WAR 1945 

staff issued by the All India Radio. 1945 

3252 

3253 

3254 

External affairs Dept. Weekly 

summaries from 4th Jan 1945. 


America and Americans. 

Publicity advisory Committee I.& 

B. Dept. Request of the I.& B. 

Progs., Nos. 41-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(48)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 



WAR 

3255 

Deptt. that foreign Secy. Should 

attend the meeting of the 

Committee to be held on 

September 13-15, 1945 or send 

some other officer to represent 

him. 

Weekly Directive and Background Progs., Nos. 65(53)-W, 

WAR 1945 

issued by the I. & B. Department. 1945 (Secret) 

Guidance from H.M.G. on Publicity 

Progs., Nos. 65(38)-W, 

3256 handling of Allied Control 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Commission in Germany. 

3257 

3258 

3259 

3260 

3261 

3262 

3263 

Re-allocation of man powers 

between the armed force and 

civilian employment during any Progs., Nos. 

interim period between the defeat 1945 (Secret) 

of Germay and the defeat of 

Japan. 

28(5)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Question whether the procedure 

laid down for securing the 

administration approval of Govt. 

of legislation, of a special war 

character should continue for 

some time longer. 

Control of foreigners in war- 

Restrictions on enemy foreigners 

at liberty. 

Food Situation in India. Weekly 

Telegrams to Secretary of State. 

Desptach of duty free parcels by 

Members of the French India, 

Public Forces. 

The Defence of India Reserve 


Decision that technical personnel 

covered by the Essential Service 

(Maintenance) Ordinance, 1941 

Should not be prosecuted under 

that ordinance for leaving their 

employment without permission 

but should be reported to the 

National Service Labour Tribunal 

concerned for suitable action, 

Progs., Nos. 18(62)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 15(33)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(28)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) (A) 



WAR 

3264 

3265 

3266 

3267 

3268 

3269 

3270 

3271 

3272 

3273 

under the National service.... 

Repatriation of three Chinese 

maid servants formerly in the 

employ of Japanese Consulate 

General, Singapur and lately in 

the employment of two Chinese 

families in New Delhi. 

Enquiry from the Agent-General 

for India Washington regarding 

the Possibility of Securing the 

release of Mr. & Mrs. Hans 

Zuckerbacker, interned in India. 

Termination of lease-lend 

inventories of Lease-Lend stock. 

Export Trade Control Export of 

Matches. 

Censorship of telegrams and 

Postal Communication, Passing 

between India, Tibet. 

Air Paid Precautions. Statements 

issued by Civil Defence Branch 

(Defence Deptt.) on hostile air 

raids in India and their effects. 

Disposal of seven sases of 

medical goods consigned by 

Pestano-Branco of Lisbon to 

Drogaria Luso Indian of Nova 

Goa, a Statutory Listed firm. 

The Explosions (Amendment0 


Progs., Nos. 91-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 32(26)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(10)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35-W, 1945 WAR 1945 

Progs., Nos. 18(26)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

European Advisory Commission. 

Draft summary fo the Agreemetn 

between the Govt. of the 

Progs., Nos. 4-W, 1945 

U.S.S.R., the U.K., the U.S.A. and 

WAR 1945 

Secret 

the Provisioal Govt. of the French 

Republic on the occupation of 

Germany. 

The Cotton Cloth Yarn (Control) 

Order, 1945. 

Progs., Nos. 18(45)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Prisoners of War---- copies of 


3274 telegrams received from war and 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Defence Dept. on prisoners of war 



WAR 

3275 

3276 

3277 

3278 

3279 

3280 

3281 

3282 

3283 

3284 

3285 

3286 

matters. 

Request from the I.and B. Dept. 

for the Supply of Certain 

Intelligence Summaries. 

The Civil Pioneer Force 

(Amendment) Ordinance, 1945. 

Fortnightly Radio reports from 

Tehran. 

Reorganisation of the system of 

Military Commands in India. 

Censorship Interceptions------- 

Portugal. Portuguese Possessions 

in India. 

Records of Civilian War Dead 

required by the Imperial War 

Graves commission. 

Pamphlet entitled India Today 

issued by the India League in 

Washington Correction of in-accuracies-- 

Continuance of the economic war 

fare controls and trading with the 

enemy legislation after the 

cessation of hostilities. 

Control over correspondence to 

and from enemy territories and 

statutary listed enemies on the 

abolition of censorship. 

The Aluminium Utensils (Control) 

order, 1945. 

United Nations Commissions for 

the investigation of War Crimes. 

Question of inviting Soviet 

Govt.to Join the War Crimes 

Commission in London. 

Question of direct correspondence 

between Director General All 

India Radio, & Directors of 

Broadcasting in the middle east 

countries. 

3287 The Drugs Control order, 1945. 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 18(40)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 65(19)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 72-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 65(24)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 34-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 41(13)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(12)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 59-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 41(12)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(76)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 



WAR 

3288 

3289 

Resumption of telegraphic and 

postal communicatios, between 

India and other Countries. 

Miscellaneous on A.R.P. issued by 

defence and labour Deptt. 

Progs., Nos. 12-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Censorship Concession. Question 

regarding grant of Cypher 

Privilege to the French Military 

Mission at the time of their visit of 

Progs., Nos. 

3290 India. 2. Grant of censorship 

1945 Secret 

concessions, to the French Consul 

at Bombay 3. Grant of Postal 

concessions to the French 

Economic Mission in India. 

9(6)-W, 

WAR 1945 

3291 

3292 

3293 

3294 

Control, as an anti-inflation, 

measure, over the of princes paid 

war supplies particularly over 

profits 

Notifications issued under the 

Hoarding and Profiteering 

Prevention ordinance, 1943 . 

Jurisdications, of the various 

regional Deputy Controller 

General fo Civil Supplies. 

Ordinances amending the Indian 

Army Act, 1911 and the Indian 

Air Force Act, 1932 2. The Army 

(For feature of emoluments 

ordinance, 1945.) 

Progs., Nos. 22-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 18(63)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Scheme for the payments of 

Progs., Nos. 61-W, 1945 

rewards for the Capture of enemy 

WAR 1945 

Secret 

agents 

Censorship Interceptions------- 


3295 France and French Establishments 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

in India. 

3296 

Establishment of a prisoners of 

war camp at Baleh. 

Progs., Nos. 31(11)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Question of removing the name of 


3297 victor carralho of Neura, Goa, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

from the Black List. 

3298 

Movement of Aliens through India 

Sea and Airport. Quarterly report 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 



WAR 

3299 

3300 

3301 

3302 

3303 

3304 

3305 

3306 

3307 

3308 

on---- from the director of 

Security, India Command. 

Prisoners of War--- Proposed 

exchange of Prisoners of war with 

Germany. 

Procedure for Air Force War 

Emergency works & Air Forces 

Operational Work. 

Bi-Weekly guidance notes on the 

War Situation. 

Proposed to hold an Indian 

Exhibition in the Middle East. 

Censorship intercepts relating to 

possible misuse of diplomatic 

Bags. 

War Trade lists no 18 and advice 

notes thereto 2. Dicsontinuance 

of the Advice notes to the war 

Trade list. 

Security measures in connection 

with the mounting of Major 

operations from the India. Base. 

Question of withdrawing 

concessions granted to Foreign 

consular officers not to exchange 

uncensored privated 

correspondence in their not to 

exchange uncensored private 

correspondence in their ........ 

Review of contribution to War 

Funds made by the India 

community in Afghanistan. 

Despatch of Postal parcels and 

household provisions, to France 

from French India, Despatch of 

postal parcels to France by 

Frenchmen in Bombay. 

Concessions granted to Foreign 

Consular officers etc., regard to 

the use of abbreviated telegraphic 

addresses in Foreign Cables. 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 65(27)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11(12)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 17-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 


WAR 1945 


Progs., Nos. 43-W, 1945 WAR 1945 

Progs., Nos. 15(29)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Progs., Nos. 11(14)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

3309 Request of the Czechoslovak Progs., Nos. 15(39)-W, WAR 1945 



WAR 

3310 

3311 

3312 

3313 

3314 

3315 

3316 

Consul at Bombay for permission 

to export certain woolen and 

cotton articles for the use of 

Czech Red Cross in 

Ceachoslovakia. 

(i) Appointment of Dr. Marcel 

Junod as International Red Cross 

Committee Delegate in Tokyo vice 

Dr. Paravicini deceased. (ii) 

Appointment of Charles Robert 

Fluckiger as Assistant Delegation 

of IRCC in Ceylon. (iii) 

Appointment of Mr. Henri Frei as 

IRCC Delegate in India during the 

leave vacancy of Mr. J. A. Rikli. 

1945 (Secret) 


WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

List Showing in order of priority 

matters requring attention in the 

immediately past-war period. 2. 

Departmental list and 

memorandum on immediate postwar 

problems. 

Progs., Nos. 87-W, 1945 

WAR 

(Secret) 

1945 

Agreement between H.M.A. and 

the Soviet Govt. relating to 

Prisoners of War and Civilians 

liberated by Force operating 

under Soviet Command and force 

operation under British 

Command. 

Circulation of literature on 

poronographic anti-Semitism to 

U. S. Forces in India. 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 83-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Censorship concessions to 

Chinese Officials in India, 2. 

Question of the grant of full 

concessions, under telegraph 

censorship to the Chinese cosul at 

Bombay. 

Progs., Nos. 

1945 Secret 

9(8)-W, 

WAR 1945 

Request of the Italian Govt. to the 

allowed to declare war on Japan. 

Regarding Mr. Wilhelm Helmbach, 

a German officer from the 

`Drachenfels` in Marmugao who 

escaped to India from detention 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 32(30)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 



WAR 

3317 

3318 

3319 

3320 

3321 

3322 

3323 

3324 

3325 

in the Aguada Fort in Goa and 

was finally captured at Castle 

Rock. 

Article in the `` New Times`` a 

Soviet Journal, containing a 

rebuke to the `` National Call`` , 

Delhi, for criticising failure of the 

Soviet Union to protest against 

the operations of the European 

Colonial Powers in Indo-China and 

Indonesia. 

Progs., Nos. 65(54)-W, 

WAR 

1945 (Secret) 

1945 

Taking over the German Consular 

Archives and Property in India. 

Question of Supporting from H.E. 

the Viceroy`s War Purposes Fund 

the appeal of the Consul General 

for Belgium on behalf of the 

Belgian Red Cross. 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 


WAR 1945 

1945 

Food situation in India---------- Progs., Nos. 68-W, 1945 

WAR 1945 

All India Reports on food position. (Secret) 

Supply to the Baluchistan 

Administration of copies of certain 

papers regarding the use of 

Defence of India, Rule 26 and the 

Restriction and Detention, 



WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Internees received from Persia 

and Iraq-------- 1. Question of 

release and return of certian 

Progs., Nos. 32-W, 1945 

internees from Persia and Iraq. 2. 

WAR 1945 

(Secret) 

Proposal regarding the eventural 

disposal of Italians from Persia 

received for internment in India. 

Reparations from German-- 

Indias claims as Presented to the 

Paris Reparation, Conference. 

Censorship information supplied 

to Political Agents in Baluchistan. 


WAR 1945 

1945 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 42(13)-W, 

WAR 1945 

1945 (Secret) 

Arrangements for the Exchange of 

Progs., Nos. 11(12)-W, 

High Denomination Bank Notes 

WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

held in Persia. 



WAR 

3326 

3327 

3328 

3329 

3330 

3331 

3332 

3333 

3334 

3335 

3336 

3337 

Instrument of surrender by 

Japan. 

The Criminal Law Amendment 



reports. 

E.T.C.----Export to Afghanistan of 

Foreign goods under the Transit 

procedure. 

Reports from the Indian Military 

Mission in Berlin regarding 

Prisoners of war and Search 

Bureau. 

Statement showing payments 

made to or on behalf of Brig. 

D.Young during his stay in the 

U.S.A. 

The Bearer Promissory 

notes(Prohibition of Issue) 

Ordinance, 1946 

Request of Dr. Lanka Sundaram a 

member of the Indian Delegation 

to the United Nations assembly 

for a loan of 1000 Dollars. 

Transmission to the India office 

London of a bag from the consul 

General for France at Calcutta to 

the French Minister for Foreign 

affairs Paris which was 

intercepted in India. 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 

Progs., Nos. 34-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 19-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 

Arrangements for the exchange of 


held in French and Portuguese 

India. 

Progs., Nos. 

1946 Secret 

11(4)-W, 

WAR 1946 

The Royal Indina Navy 

Commission of Enquiry 


Election of the president of the 

Economic and Social Council. 


WAR 1946 

1946 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

Polish Jew refugees from Persia to Progs., Nos. 30-W, 1946 

3338 WAR 1946 

be sent to India. 

Secret 

3339 Indians British subjects listed by Progs., Nos. 27(2)-W, WAR 1946 



WAR 

3340 

3341 

3342 

3343 

3344 

3345 

3346 

3347 

3348 

3349 

3350 

3351 

Siamese as war Criminals. 1946 Secret 

Closing down of the Indian 

Operation of the Far Eastern 

Bureau. 

Ministry of Information`s paper 

No. 38A. Britain`s Continued 

Vitality. 


meetings of the Executive 

publicity Committee 

(Foreign)Agenda and Minutes of 

the meetings of the Coordination 

Committtee. 

Indian representation on courts to 

try Far Eastern war Criminals. 

The Bank Notes (Declaration of 

holdings ordinance 1946, and the 



India`s Claim for reparation 

against Japan. 

The Termination of war Ordinance 

1946. Revokation of the 

Proclamation of emergency made 

on the 3rd September 1939 and 

date of termination to the War. 

The India Act 1946. 

Food Situation in India. Proposed 

cut in ration. 

Discontinuance of the Foreign 

Publicity Board. 

Destruction of war trade lists no 

18 & advice notes thereto. 


WAR 1946 

1946 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 27-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 11-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 

Progs., Nos. 7-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 3-W, 1946 WAR 1946 

Progs., Nos. 26-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 



tendered by one Vali Mohamed 

Ahmed Resident of Pasni(Kalat 

State) 

Progs., Nos. 11(13)-W, 

WAR 

1946 Secret 

1946 

Export Trade Control---- 

Information regarding shippers to 

whom export licences have been 

refused. 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 



WAR 

3352 

3353 

Publicity Planning & Co-Ordination 

Board Directive-Food Publicity. 

Import Trade Control--- 

Preparation of July-December 46 

shipping programme for all 

loading areas including European 

Countries. 

3354 The Repealing Ordinance 1946. 

3355 

Termination of the state of war 

with Siam. 


1946 

WAR 1946 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 5-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 

Cancellation of the control of Non- 


3356 Postal Communications order 

WAR 1946 

1946 

1940. 

3357 

3358 

3359 

3360 

3361 

Arrangements for the Exchange 


held in Eritrea. 

The Foodgrains (Futures and 

Options)(Prohibition ) Order, 

1946. 

Report from the Publicity officer 

Tehran Containing porposals for 

publicity in Persia. 

Notification amending a Home 

Deptt. Notification regarding 

certain protected Areas. 

Escape of Italian prisoners of War 

to Portuguese India. 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 



3362 High Denomination Bank note 

WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

held in the Persian Gulf. 

3363 

Return to former owners of 

presents of revolvers, binoculars 

etc. 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


Progs., Nos. 11(11)-W, 

3364 High Denomination Bank Notes 

WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

held in Singkiang. 

3365 

Protocol concerning the Handing 

over of British interests in 

Germany. 

Progs., Nos. 24(10)-W, 

WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

3366 The Allied Forces (China) Progs., Nos. 2(11)-W, WAR 1946 



WAR 

3367 

3368 

3369 

3370 

Ordinance, 19*46. 1946 Secret 

The Banking Companies 

(Inspection) Ordinance, 1946 

Request from the Indian Military 

Mission Berlin for despatch to the 

Berlin Exhibition of Photographs 

posters and films showing life in 

India. 

Orders, etc., issued by the 

Baluchistan administration under 

the Defence of India Rules. 


WAR 1946 

1946 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 


WAR 1946 

1946 

Return of loan of revolvers and 

binoculars gifted to Govt. by 

Progs., Nos. 36-W, 1946 

H.H.the Maharaja of Nepal for use 

WAR 1946 

Secret 

of Defence Services for the 

duration of the war. 




WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

held by the Tibetans. 

3372 

3373 

Exchange of messages between 

H.E. the Viceroy and the Agent 

General for India in Washington 

regarding procurement of food 

from U.S.A. 

Revision of the Italian Armistice 

Terms. 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 35-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 


Progs., Nos. 11(165)-W, 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

held in Afghanistan. 

3375 

3376 

Question of continuing in force 

the Enemy Agents Ordinance 

1943. 

Progs., Nos. 2-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 

Question in the Legislative 

Assembly by Sri V.C.Vellingiri 

Gounder regarding evacuees 

received in India from abroad -transferred 

to the Commonwealth 

Relations Deptt. 

Progs., Nos. 29-W, 1946 

WAR 

Secret 

1946 

A Proposed Conference of the 

Secreataries of certain Depatts. of Progs., Nos. 10-W, 1946 

3377 

WAR 1946 

the Govt. of India of Consider the Secret 

Policy in regard to the re- 



WAR 

3378 

3379 

3380 

3381 

employment of former Civil 

employees who fell into enemy 

hands during the war and 

collaborated with the Enemy. 


demonetised notes held in China. 

Declaration etc., Regarding 

enemy territories. 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret 

Progs., Nos. 12-W, 1946 

WAR 1946 

Secret 



held in Saudi Arabia and Certain 

Other Foreign Countries 

Progs., Nos. 

1946 Secret 

11(7)-W, 

WAR 1946 

Impot Trade Control---Imports 

from Frances and certain Other 

Countries on Currency ground. 


WAR 1946 

1946 Secret

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