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(a) Acquisition must be by Imperial and Inter-
national Communications Limited, themselves
and not by any branch or subsidiary Company,
and the Colony must be included within the
scope of Imperial Communications Advisory
Committee instituted by the agreement of the
29th of May, 1929, copies of which wore
forwarded with Your Lordship's despatch of
the 15th of August, 1929. If it is co
desired negotiations will be conductod with
Mr. Richards but it must be understood that
he has full power to act for and does act for
the main Company and not merely for Marconi's
Wireless Telegraph Company whose representative
he claims to be, still less for the Chinese
National Telegraph Company mentioned in Your
Lordship's unnumbered telegram or the 5th of
October, 1929.
(b) The Company to take over from the Government
at a value to be agreed upon all plant per-
taining to the Service transferred whether
such plant is actually required by the Company
for its own services or not, and to establish
its own transmitting and receiving stations.
(c) The Company to take over from the Government
its lease of the offices in the Peninsular
and Oriental Building now used for Radio work.
(a) The Company to absorb as far as possible all
members of the Government staff who will cease
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