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Dear Granthen,

There are some

prints about

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(1) Top Leant Despatch No 21 of the 8th June a the

subject of legislation to authorize the interception of telephone messages & ingrection of the Hong Kong Telephone Company's records which I should like to raise insteality

The Lingepon telephone Же выйдаро

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FURTHER ACTION.

cnn officially in the pusti place- Our exqirives here indicate that no

penisio exists in the U.K. on the lines of your draft bill. be wondered whether any special difficulty arises in this connection in Hong Kong from the fact that the telephone

survive is mun

by a punte company. legislation

The Singapon present to of which you allude is similar to that of the 4 of the Hong Kong Telecommunceaten Ordinance 1936 in that the definition of " Telegraph". includes" "telephonic communication". We have not been able to find any sinsider ligealation,

similar be

you duft kill, in force in any