Telephone: NATIONAL 6321
Telegrams: Gentel Cent London
TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT,
GENERAL POST OFFICE,
LONDON, E.C.I.
Your Reference
P.O. Reference 53863/39
27
A pril, 1939
29 APR 193
C.0. 100
Dear Big,
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With reference to your letter of the 24th of April regarding tele rams despatched by the League of Nations Committee for Technical Collaboration with China, I am sorry that I cannot support the suggestion that the messages should be sent to the former agents of the Committee in Hong Kong for reforwarding thence to Geneva. practice of reforwarding telegrans in order to secure the benefit of a cheaper rate from an intermediate point has been condemned by International Telecommunication Conferences: provisions designed to suppress reforwarding appear in paragraphs 418 to 422 of the International Telegraph Regulations.
The French have direct wireless services between Hanoi and Saigon on the one hand and Paris on the other, and no doubt they send the Committee's telegrams for Geneva by one of these routes.
You will see from item VIII of the minutes of the 106th meeting of the Imperial Communications Advisory Committee that as a result of negotiations with the French Administration, Cable and Wireless, Ltd. are withdrawing their wireless service to French Indo-China via Siam, presumably the service is also being withdrawn in the reverse direction.
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