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IMPERIAL COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS COMMITTEE FOR TECHNICAL COLLABORATION ITH CHINA: PRIVILEGE OF GOVERNMENT RATES ACCORDED BY CABLE & IRELESS LIMITED FOR CABLES DESFAGOSED FROM
HONG KONG
Copy of a letter from Cable and Wireless Limited to the Secretary, Imperial Communications Advisory Committee.
DTM/G.2/8.
CABLE AND WIRELESS LIMITED,
Electra House,
Victoria Embankment,
London,
W.C.2.
17th March, 1938.
Dear Sir, See 2.
On the 25th February 1938 the Company was approached
by the Colonial Office with a request that cables despatched
from Hongkong by the League of Nations Committee for Technical
Collaboration with China, on League of Nations business,
should be accorded the same privileged rates as are granted
to telegrams sent on behalf of the Government of Hongkong.
Although there was some doubt as to whether the
above-mentioned telegrams were entitled to the privilege of
Government rates when addressed to parties other than the
Secretary General of the League of Nations, it was ascertained
that the Chinese Telegraph Administration had extended such
privilege when the League of Nations Commission was estab-
lished in Shanghai.
See 3.
In the circumstances, the Company informed the Colonial Office that it would be pleased to accord the priví- lege of Government rates to the telegrams in question and,