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March, 1918), the only wireless concession which can be said to exist in China to-day is that of the British Marconi Company and dates from April 1914".
On the 19th March, 1918, Mr. G. Isaacs, London manager of the Marconi Company, called at the Foreign Office, and in the course of a consultation agreed that the company must make the best of a bad business and try to indise the Japanese Government to admit the Marconi Company to participation in the Japanese
concession or to co-operation with Mitsui,
Accordingly in answering the Japanese Goverment's request for assistance (No.28998 of the 25th March, 1918), His Majesty's Government put forward a plea for the Marconi Company. They stated that they did not object to the Japanese Government negotiating with China for the disposal of the existing wireless stations (i.e. the Telefunken stations already in existence), but trusted that the Japanese Government would similarly recogni the rights of His Majesty's Government to support the Karconi Company to secure concessions for other wireless stations.
However, the position of the Marconi Company was for a time rendered difficult because (1) the Mitsui Agreement had already been signed; (2) it was impossible for more than a year
February 1918 to March 1919 to discover its scope, and (3) the Japanese Goverment never sent a reply to His Majesty's Govern-
ment's above-mentioned request.
In April 1918 the Karconi Company learning that the United States of America Goverment were pressing the American Federal Company's arc system in China, came to the very proper sonalu- sion that the Japanese Agreement could not be so extensive as had been supposed, and, assisted by the British Legation at Peking, reopened negotiations with the Chinese Goverment to establish a series of wireless stations between Peking and Kashgar (see Minute to Sir J. Jordan's telegram No.735 of the 31st August 198
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