No. 105.
COPY
Enclosure Wo. 6.
Kr. Brenan to Sir Kils Lampson.
H.B.. Consulate General,
Canton.
July 7th 1928.
(and 1 copy)
Copies to :-
F. 0. No. 66.
Hongkong No. 290.
Shanghai.
Swatow.
G.0.C. Hongkong.
Sir,
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Kr. Yamazaki, the local manager of the Japanese Hitsui Bussan Kaisha has informed me privately that the Canton Government is about to
enter into a contract with the German firm of Siemsen & Company for the erection of forty eight wireless stations in this province. This was confirmed to me in conversation by the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, who did not know the details, but stated that the matter had been arranged by Tu Te-chen the late head of the Bureau of Reconstruction, a department which appears to fulfil locally the functions of the Ministry of Communications.
2.
According to Fr. Yamazaki, the stations are only for short range communications and are merely intended to bring the outlying parts of the province into closer touch with the capital. The station at Canton is to be 3 kilowatts, Swatow and loihow 800 watts, Weichow & Shuikuan 5.0 w tts, Kongmoon and ten other stations 75 watts, and the others of smaller
The system adopted is long wave transmission which
power.
His Majesty's Minister,
Peking.