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PROPOSED TRANSFER OF GOVERNMENT WIRELESS
SERVICES IN HONG KONG TO IMPERIAL AND
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
(I.C.C. 1324).
THE COMMITTEE had under consideration correspondence
from the Colonial Office concerning the transfer of Government
Wireless Services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International
Communications, Ltd., (Paper No: I.C.C. 1324).
MR. VERNON said that he had seen Mr. King, the Hong Kong
Governments' Electrical Engineer, and had written to the
Company urging the importance of a speedy decision as regards
the transfer of the Government wireless services to the
Company. The Hong Kong Government wireless service were
inclined to take on certain extensions, and it was not certain
whether the Company would be prepared to take over this extend-
ed service. He had heard from Sir Basil Blackett that the
Company hoped to arrive at a decision shortly. Despatches from
Hong Kong indicated that the proposed site for the new wireless
station was in the leased territory, but, as the Committee
knew, China had declared that it did not recognise the right
to erect wireless stations upon any leased territory, and he
questioned whether it was wise to put up a wirelese station on
such territory in the face of this declaration on the part of the
There were, he said, both military and
Chinese Government.
air force wireless stations on the leased territory, but it
was rather a different project to erect a new long range wire-
less station.
MR. CALDER, in reply to Lord Passfield, said that the
lease of the territory concerned had 99 years to run, from
1898.
CAPTAIN DORLING said that he had heard from Mr. Vyvyan,
the Company's engineer, that it was intended to erect the
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