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and as to 50 per cent. to reduction of rates or such other purposes as the Advisory Committee (see below) may approve. The Report contained suggestions for the adjustment of the above figures in the event of additional capital expenditure:
The Communications Company to consult, in regard to questions of policy, including any alteration of rates, an Advisory Committee including repre- sentatives of the Governments parti- cipating in the Conference: no increase of rates prevailing at the date of the formation of the Commu- nications Company to be made except with the assent of the Advisory Committee:
Provision for guaranteeing British control of all the Companies; for
the right of the Governments to assume control of the cable and wireless systems in time of war or other national emergency; and to enable the Fighting Services to build and work cable or wireless stations for their own purposes, but not for commercial purposes:
The Post Office in London reserves the right to conduct the externa 1 telephonic services of Great Britain, but will agree with the Company the terms on which it shall have the right to use the Company's wireless stations or portions thereof for telephonic purposes.
After hearing a statement from the Secretary
of State for Scotland, as Chairman of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference, the Cabinet agreed
(s) To approve the Report of the Imperial
Wireless and Cable Conference:
(b) That the Secretary of State for Cominion Affairs should send a telegram to the Governments of the Dominions concerned to the effect that His Majesty's Gover- ment in Great Britain approve the Report and are prepared to implement it; that before Parliament rises they are very anxious to present to Parliament the version of the Report prepared with a view to publication and to announce their approval, since a pledge has been given that effect will not be given to the Report until Parliament has been informed; and
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