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copy of the memorandum thereon by the Ministry of Communi ca- tions, and it is on this memorandum, apparently, that Sir J. Jordan relies for his far-reaching conclusions as to Japanese aims in regard to the control of the telegraph system in China, This memorandum indicates the construction of wireless stations at Ch'ih-feng (Jehol), Taku (Chihli, Ch'ang An (1.8, Hsianfu), Chungking (Szechuan), and Batang (on the Szechuan-Thibetan marches). The cost of these five stations will be about 1,500,000 dollars, With regard to the material, Sir J. Jordan, in his despatch No.104 of the 15th March, 1919, says that the present Kalgan station (Telefunken) will be removed to Ch'ang An (Hsianfu), and for the other four the German Telefunken material will be used, which was contracted for in January 1914, and delivered secretly in 1917, and the existence of which the Chinese Government had long denied,
Other provisions of the Telegraph Loan relate to the con- struction and reparation of seven land lines, five of which are situated in outlying provinces, at a total cost of some 6,000, 000 dollars, Sir J. Jordan in his despatch No.285 of the 17th June, 1918 (when he was still under the impression that Japan had secured a practical monopoly of wireless telegraphy in China) wrote that by these two loan agreements Japan had largely attained her aim, revealed six years ago, of securing the
In view of eventual control of the telegraph policy of China, the money to be advanced by Japan, it may safely be concluded that the Telegraph Loan contemplated Japanese supervision of the maintenance and extension of the land line system throughout China, and Sir J. Jordan, in June 1918, drew attention to the fact that the agreement laid special stress on the repair and extension of telegraph lines in the frontier provinoes, and expressed the opinion that the use of Japanese money and engin- eers for this purpose in outlying portions of the country like
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