ANNEXURE.
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Copy of letter from the Colonial Office to Imperial and International Communications, Limited.
Downing Street,
28th July, 1932.
92640/32.
Sir,
I am directed to refer to the Colonial Office
letter of the 20th instant on the subject of wireless
services in Hong Kong, and to the interview which your
representative, Mr. Corby, had at this Office with
members of the Department and the Governor of Hong Kong.
I am to inform you that a telegram has been received from the Officer Administering the Government
of Hong Kong, representing that it is impossible to
allow any further extension of the period of
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inactivity which has lasted in effect for three years.
He states that it is imperative to proceed with overdue
improvements in the service by introduction of
equipment and regularising and recruiting establishment.
He represents that the interests of Hong Kong are being
prejudiced by the long delay in arriving at a
settlement and therefore proposes that negotiations
with your Company should be broken off, and that the
Colony should proceea to develop its own service with
China in the interests of local trade, which would be
prejudiced materially by further delay, and also to
develop communications with the neighbouring Eastern
countries which are almost of equal urgency and
importance.
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As your Directors are aware, it has always been the desire of the Government to abstain from
THE GENERAL MANAGER,
IMPERIAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED.
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