TEGICAL
IREVENTS
RE.
278
(7) The wireless stations required by the Empire for
strategic reasons.
(1) It is proposed to link up the Empire in the manner
shown on the attached chart. Direct working between England, Australia, South Africa, India, Canada and Singapore are already provided for, if proposed high power stations materialise.
(2) It must be accepted that stations which are erected for strategic reasons only, 1.0., for the purpose of avoiding the isolation of a colony if its
cables are cut will not necessarily be remunera- tive while those cables are in operation.
(3) West Indies, The Naval stations of Jamaica and
Bermuda should be reopened and modernized.
stations are being provided at Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, St. Kitts and possibly Montserrat. There are
already stations at Trinidad and Tobago, and the stations at Demerara and Belize will link up
British Guiana and British Honduras respectively
with Jamaica.
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Note. The Colonial Office representative remarked
that while the reopening of the naval stations at
Jamaica and Bermuda for commercial traffic would
be welcomed, it is feared there might be difficul-
ties if these stations were to be allowed to take
traffic in competition with the cable companies
it would be preferable from the Test Indies point
of view and probably from that of the Treasury if
the companies concerned would run suitable stations
on their own account.
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