TheCodeBreakers
The consuls stay on. Now, in this
particular set of dispatches they not only told their diplomats in
Washington and London to burn their codes, but they told their consuls
in Manila, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Batavia to burn their codes and
that did not mean a rupture of diplomatic relations; it meant war."
A few hours after the code-destruction MAGIC reached Stark, he
dispatched the electrifying news to Kimmel and Hart:
Highly reliable information has been received that categoric and
urgent instructions were sent yesterday to Japanese diplomatic
and consular posts at Hongkong X Singapore X Batavia X Manila X
Washington and London to destroy most of their codes and ciphers
at once and to burn all other important confidential and secret
documents X
He followed this five minutes later with another message:
Circular twenty four forty four from Tokyo one December
ordered London X Hongkong X Singapore and Manila to destroy
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