Icarus, Flight Safety, Pom Pax and Foghorn:
Gosh! Where do you gentlemen get all this knowledge from. I almost feel guilty for asking such a difficult question. Flight Safety’s observation that there is possibly a page or two missing from the second telegram is probably correct. The page I copied from the bundle of Military documents was alone but that doesn’t mean the missing pages were not in another bundle. ( I did not open them all). The entire cache of documents were all written in Chinese with some in Manchu. The only words of English to be found was contained on the “ letterhead”s of both the telegrams. I can’t comment on the encoding pads as I don’t understand how they fit into the system. I must say I’m now “behind the aeroplane “ as the aeroplane is flying me. Thanks all for your efforts so far. I watch with great interest.
KIFIS