CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928 — Page 123

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(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 4th February, 1928).

Proposed Resumption of the Chinese Telegraph Office in

Hong Kong.

Laid before the 33rd Council Meeting by the Provincial

Government.

(From our own Correspondent)

The Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong has

hitherto been under the control of the Foreign Office of the

bogus Government at Peking. Since the establishment of the

Nationalist Government, officers have been sent on repeated

occasions to take over charge of the office, in the hope that the bogus Government at Peking might no longer occupy it and

make it an anti-propaganda agency. But they were prevented

by the Hong Kong Goverment who were in alliance with Wu Pei- fu. We now learn that the Superintendent of the Telegraph

Administration under the Provincial Goverment in Canton,

seeing that the military administration of our Kuomintang has been developed as far as the basin of the Yellow River, has found it necessary to resume the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong at an early date so as to facilitate intelligence and to centralize propaganda. Some days ago he sent a petition to the Provincial Government requesting that steps be taken to have the office resumed, and that officers be sent at once to improve its management. On receipt of the petition, on the 3rd inst. the Provincial Goverment laid the proposal before the 33rd Council Meeting for discussion.

(By Fan)