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following observations upon your
letter His Lordship has not made any
suggestions for purely drafting amendments.
3. I am also to explain that the
present letter must not be taken as
binding the Government of Hong Kong
to the views expressed therein. It
will of course be necessary for the
assent of that Government to be obtained
to the Agreement as finally drafted
before it can enter into operation.
4.
Article 1.
His Lordship would see
no objection to your Company being granted
a right to carry on radio-telephonic
communication with ships at sea. At
the same time, he would not be prepared
to agree to the grant of a sole right
for this purpose, since the Hong Kong
Government might wish to employ radio-telephony
for their own purposes in communicating
with ships at sea from the Government
wireless station, particularly in the
case of those small ships which find it
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