[Secret]
From: Manila (Nihro)
To: Tokyo
November 30, 1941
Purple (Priority)
#809
Due
to the straining of international relations, we have destroyed in readiness for
emergency out of the codes kept at this office the Yokohama Special Bank code,
the TU code, MATU Chinese Character List (it was, of course, reported in my
#806 (?)) on the 29th.
As
a result we find it impossible to decipher your message of the 29th (Yokohama
Special Bank request telegram — - - - number of words 18.)
Will
you please wire the same in the Foreign Office code.
25862 Trans. 12/7/41 (6)
(EXHIBITS
OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 1 INTERCEPTED DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES SENT BY THE
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BETWEEN JULY l AND DECEMBER 8, 1941)