Governor,
Hongkong
K
96834/15/48
SECRET.
Despatch
No...
16
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sir,
I have the honour to refer to
your despatch No. 4 of 16th January,
1948, on the subject of long-distance
broadcasting and to inform you that
the project to which you have referred
has been discussed with other inter-
ested Departments of His kajesty's
Government in the United Kingdom.
2. In the course of these discussions
the Foreign Office has emphasised its
view that any broadcasts from Hongkong
intended for reception in South China
should be confined to the English and
Chinese languages and transmitted on
medium frequencies, on the ground that
(a) Chinese susceptibilities would
be less likely to be offended and, in
any event objections could be more easily
countered, if it could be argued that
the broadcasts from Hongkong, heard in
South China, were an 'overflow' of the
local medium-wave service,
and (b) His Majesty's Government
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