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do not see why the service is expected to "get wärse-
With the stimulus of new premises and equipment and a rising revenue,
it might surely be expected to get better?
(might not
We are inclined to agree with you that there would probably be
insuperable difficulty in the operation by a commercial company
under licence of a broadcasting service designed partly for reception
(in any com
as you will see from what outside Hong Kong; but that project, on which I hope we shall be
apps feln, in
in moms dead.
able to give you more
inite information very soon, does not now
likely to come to anything..
To sum up, the present difficulties and future prospects of the
Government broadcasting service, as represented, do not seem to us to
justify the rather drastic and, in practice, not at alt easily revocable,
step of handing it over to the Rediffusion Company, particularly in
view of the capital assistance now available from U.K. funds.
As a footnote I should add,
that.
indeed
as you will have seen from 7.0. tel. no 859 to Nanking, reputed to thing
Hing King
The Foreign Office and phot
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should be
am
disposed to
that
used
As
a
base for broadcasts
ained
at China.
To do this on
an adequate scale
would
have ast
a lot of money
and, apart
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from the fun facter and other considerations,
as
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The station
easily been
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cheaply provided jausming
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the main autres of population, it is felt
that
the expenditure would not be a justifiable risk. You will also have noted
tom ta A belegram to 12 from heathing forego ofice (repeated to you by Larsing
fout.
telegram) that the advice of the Ambassador
Ine Freigh Office wible packe
supporto
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position
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communication in det finne & this effect.
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