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(4)
sufficiently powerful to effect world wide
communication. Its possibilities are I understand
not utilised to the full. For instance, work during
the day time is rendered impossible owing to jamming
and interference from the Bund Station. Some re-
arrangement with additional construction and further
equipment which would involve comparatively inconsid-
erable expenditure would render it a first class high
power station.
The technical personnel seemed, so far as I could
judge reasonably efficient. Colonel Fu had spent he
informed me two years at the big Marconi Station at
Chelmsford. Another member of the staff at the North
Parade Ground Station had also been trained at
Chelmsford. The operating staff seemed reasonably
efficient also though not very conversant with the
procedure and technique of international telegraphic
practice.
I formed the general impression that military require-
ments overshadowed all commercial considerations.
Neither Mr. Chu nor Colonel Fu made any definite
allusion to that in my presence, but everything I saw
made it clear. I feel sure that Mr. Chu and the
Wireless Administrator are sincere in their desire
to foster commercial traffic, but are faced with the
difficulty that any additional personnel and
facilities provided for short wave communication
with Hong Kong are liable to be requisitioned for
military purposes.
On the termination of the inspection we returned to
the Commissioner's Office and had a final conference with Mr.
Chu. We decided that
(1) Tests should continue a few days longer to
ascertain