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The Secretary,
Admiralty, Whitehall,
London, S.W.
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Admiralty,
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sir,
Aday 29733
With further reference to your letter of the
27th September No.29733, respecting the erection of a
5 k.w. Wireless Telegraph Station at Hong Kong, and in
confirmation of the conclusions reached at the Inter-
departmental Conference which took place at the Admiralty
on the 7th instant, I am commanded by my Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty to request that you will inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that they accept his suggestion that no naval station should be erected, Cape d'Aguilar, on the understanding that in time of war the Colonial Station to be erected there shall (so long as it is in use) be entirely at the disposal of the Navy,
2.- My Lords are willing to take over the work of the Colonial Station, when erected, ror commercial well as for naval purposes, and concur generally in Mr. Harcourt's proposals relative to the financial side of
the undertaking.
3.- Assuming that the Colonial Government desire the existing visual Signal Station at Cape d'Aguilar to be retransferred to them for the purposes of the new Wireless Telegraph Station (to which course My Lords raise no objection), I am to observe that the agreement made in 1906 provided for the payment by the Colonial Government of $/2,000 per annum in respect of two Signe?
Stati The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
IP.-No. 8.