File No. 763.72111/2790
The Acting Secretary of the Navy (Roosevelt) to the
Secretary of State
Washington,
August 30, 1915.
Sir: I have the honor to forward herewith, for
your information, copies of telegrams sent and received by this
department relative to the censorship of messages at the naval station,
Guam.
Sincerely yours,
The Commandant of the Naval Station at Guam
(Maxwell) to the Secretary of the
Navy (Daniels)
Naval Station, Guam,
undated.
Referring to your 16028, I have complied with instructions.
Naval Government of
Guam,
Government House,
Guam
,
August 8, 1915.
Executive Notice No. 59
The following rules governing the receipt and transmission of
local cable messages at Guam are published for the information
of all concerned:
- 1.
- Code or cipher cable messages are permitted to and
from the United States and its possessions or to neutral
countries including United States or neutral vessels of
war and merchant vessels providing they are not destined
to a belligerent subject and contain no information of
any unneutral character such as movements or location of
ships of any belligerent nation.
- 2.
- In such messages no code or cipher addresses will be
allowed except those registered prior to July 1, 1914,
and certified copies of which are filed at this cable
station.
- 3.
- All messages must be signed either with the sender’s
name or with a duly certified registered name.
- 4.
- Persons sending or receiving such messages must assure
the censor as to the neutral character of such
messages.
- 5.
- Every such message, both transmitted or received, must
be submitted to the censor at such times as he may
designate, which will be at such times as will not delay
their transmission.
- 6.
- All messages to or from belligerent countries or to or
from a citizen of a belligerent nation, or to or from a
vessel of war or merchant vessel of any belligerent
nation, must be in plain English of an unmistakably
neutral character.
- 7.
- All such messages will be submitted to the censor
before delivery or transmission.
- 8.
- The above rules will take effect from this date and
will continue in future [force?] until further
orders.
W. J. Maxwell
Governor of Guam
