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UPPLEMENTARIOS
(1) It is suggested that any attempt to elicit further
information about the possible increase in the power of the
Hong Kong Station should be resisted.
(2) If it be asked why the high frequencies necessary to
enable a station in Hong Kong to broadcast over a large part of China
were not secured in the same international agreement as accorded
them to the Singapore Station, it may be said that acute and world-
wide shortage of suitable frequencies made this impracticable.
(3) Any suggestion that Hong Kong rather than Singapore should
have been chosen originally as the main site for the projection of
the voice of Britain to the Far East would be primarily a matter
for ocument by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
(4) If it is suggested that the British Far Eastern
Broadcasting Station in Singapore is not widely or easily audible
China, Members may be remindad
(a) thịt the present station is only a temporary one with
relatively low power,
(b) that it will be replaced as soon as possible (1-2 years)
the powerful 'Voios of Britain' station in the state of
Johore, the necessary instrument for the establish:ent of
which by the B.B.C, was recently approved by the House
(20.1,49: Cand.7584), and
arrangement
(c) that it is understood that, to tide over the intervening
period until the Johore station is ready,
with the Government of Ceylon, a powerful transmitter there
was brought into service last month (April), which
broadcasts programes in Chinese and other languages and is
heard well in China,
(5) Any implication that it is a simple matter to increase
substantially the power and range of a broadcasting station might be
refuted by pointing out that even during the late war this considerab)
and complex operation could not be accomplished in the twinkling of
an eye and mist always require a good deal of planning and
preparation,