CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 556

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that, if His Majesty's Government do not abandon their attitude, they must consider the revival of the rights of the China Electric Company and thus seek to invalidate the Marconi agreements. Put this Company's agreement refers to telegraphy and telephony and does not mention wireless apparatus. As, according to the information of His Majesty's Government, neither the China Mectric Company nor its Japanese affiliated company the Nippon Electric Company manufacture wireless apparatus, the application of their agreement to the supply of wireless apparatus to the Chinese Government can hardly have been contemplated; and this view is strengthened by the fact that the China Electric Company has negotiated with the Sino-Pritish Company for the

If the United purchase of wireless equipment. States Government were now to claim that the China Electric Company's agreement extends to wireless supplies it would be patent that the claim was deliberately made to block the rights

His of the subjects of & friendly power. Majesty's Government decline to believe that the United States Government can seriously contem-

plate such a step.

Attention is drawn to the fact, doubtless susceptable of explanation, that though the China Electric Company's agreement was signed on

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