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The British and Japanese representatives at Peking having made objections that the Danish firm of Larsen & Co. was in effect merely a German agent acting in the interests of the Telefunken Company, notification of the cancellation of this agreement was sent to Sir J. Jordan by the Chinese Government
on the 10th December, 1917.
Japanese Wireless Agreement.
The Mitsui Wireless Agreement, signed on the 21st February, 1918, now turns out to be practically identical with the Larsen Agreement, except that the article relating to the two cable companies is more vaguely worded.
Up till March 1919 all our efforts to obtain a copy of the Mitsui Agreement had been unsuccessful, so that we were kept in the dark as to its exact scope, and Sir J. Jordan had rather led us to believe that Japan might have acquired a virtual monopoly
In the last few days, of wireless communications in China. however, we have got a summarised version of the agreement, which bas taken three and a half months on the journey from Peking, and we now know that the agreement is for one high-power central station only. The material appears to be Larsen's original Telefunken station, which at the time of the cancellation of his
A site agreement was said to be in the United States of America, for the station has been selected at Tung chow, 14 miles east of
Peking.
Japanese Telegraph Loan Agreement.
Other wireless stations, however, are provided for under the Telegraph Loan Agreement signed by the Chinese Ministry of Communications and Japanese capitalists in the summer of 1918. of this agreement we have not been able hitherto to obtain a
copy,
but we have in the course of the last few days received a
copy/