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enterprise any systems of wireless communication excent, perhaps, for purely local purposes.
I told him that we had authorised a scheme in
Hong Kong which involved the expenditure of a
certain amount of money, that this scheme
undoubtedly involved the Hong Kong Government wireless undertaking through services which
would be in competition, to some extent, with
I.I.C. and that the Hong Kong service was
already earning a surplus over expenditure
and that the probable surplus in the immediate future was put at $100,000.
I
said that I thought it was a case either for
I.I.C. to make us an offer, or for us, after
communication with the Government of Hong Kong,
to say whether we were prepared to sell and to name the price. He suggested that it would
be most convenient if we corresponded semi-
officially until we were in a position to
make on one side or the other a formal
offer. If you see no objection I should
like to send him the I.C.C. paper No.953
which contains most of the information that
we have. The paper is marked Secret, but I
do not think that there is anything in it
which could not properly be disclosed to
Sir B. Blackett, and it is obviously more
convenient that we should put our cards on
the table.
I told him that I did not know
anything about the joint purse arrangements
between