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Today's Times contains an article on the clash between the karooni Company and the American Federal Wireless Company in
wireless matters in China. As there may be some stir about this
A BUMATY of the position may be useful.
1. In August, 1918, the Marconi Company signed an Agrement
with the Chinese Government for the supply of 200 sets of wireless
telephones, The Company lent the Government £600,000 of which
£300,000 was actual purchase price, the residue being for the
erection of the sate. (In point of fact we have always known
that is was the price paid to the Government for giving the
Company the contract: in fact the price for establishing British
wireless predominance in China),
The Government undertook that until the loan was repaid
they would exclusively adopt the Marconi system of wirel oss
telephony, and they further bound themselves "in the event of
the Government deciding to establish a repair shop or factory for
the maintenance of wireless installations in China, or for the manu➡
facture of wireless apparatus, the Goverment will first open
discussions with the Company with a view of arranging joint
operation of such factory by the Government and the Company"
2. Arising out of this article, the Chinese Government on May 24th, 1919, signed a subsequent agreement with the Marconi
Company for the form: tion of the "Chinese National Wireless Telegraph Company" a joint concern between the Chinese Government
and the Marconi Company. The object of the Company was "the
manufacture of wirelous telegraph and telephone apparatus, materials and supplies, and to repair and maintain wireless installations now
existing and hereafter established, but nothing in this agreement
confers/
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