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(a) the Information Officers at our Missions in foreign

(b)

(c)

territories and their staffs:

I.R.D. material from London;

they are supplied with

the Public Relations Officers in British territories,

i.e., Singapore, Federation of Malaya, Borneo (a part-

time officer), Sarawak, Brunei (no officer) and

Hong Kong;

in the British territories, the organization of Radio

Malaya (medium and short wave) broadcasting and Radio

Hong Kong;

(a) covering the whole area, but under remote control and

at low power, the B. B.C. relay station in the Far East

known as the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Station

(short wave) and (temporarily) the 100 kw. short wave

station in Ceylon, which also relays certain B. B. C.

services. The first-named station is to develop

into two 100 kw. short wave transmitters which will

give a powerful signal in the whole area in not less

than a year;

(c)

(f)

a Regional Information Office in Singapore;

proposed additional Information Officer represent-

ing the Regional Information Office (Singapore) in

Hong Kong and concerned primarily with anti-Communist

propaganda designed for Hong Kong and for indirect

reflection into China. (The Treasury are still

holding up their agreement to this appointment, but

it is being pressed for at a very high level.)

(g) residual Information staff in Shanghai, who after

recognition of the Chinese People's Republic may

be transferred to Peking. (It is improbable that,

even if we find we can retain this Information

staff usefully at all in China, they will be able

to do/