CONVOY TO RUSSIA, WITH A BRITISH CRUISER ESCORT ON ARCTIC LIFELINE. DECEMBER 1941, ON BOARD THE CRUISER HMS SHEFFIELD. - When a signal arrives marked `immediate' and `Secret' it is decoded by the duty cipher officer and then locked in a slim weighted wooden box and sent by messenger to the Captain who has the only other key. Such a signal might be the ship's sailing orders

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