CO129-510-21 Hong Kong and Canton wireless service- report- and recommendations 7-8-1928 - 7-8-1928 — Page 33

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sufficiently powerful to effect world wide

communication. Its possibilities are I understand

not utilised to the full. For instance, work during

the day time is rendered impossible owing to jamming

and interference from the Bund Station. Some re-

arrangement with additional construction and further

equipment which would involve comparatively inconsid-

erable expenditure would render it a first class high

power station.

The technical personnel seemed, so far as I could

judge reasonably efficient. Colonel Fu had spent he

informed me two years at the big Marconi Station at

Chelmsford. Another member of the staff at the North

Parade Ground Station had also been trained at

Chelmsford. The operating staff seemed reasonably

efficient also though not very conversant with the

procedure and technique of international telegraphic

practice.

I formed the general impression that military require-

ments overshadowed all commercial considerations.

Neither Mr. Chu nor Colonel Fu made any definite

allusion to that in my presence, but everything I saw

made it clear. I feel sure that Mr. Chu and the

Wireless Administrator are sincere in their desire

to foster commercial traffic, but are faced with the

difficulty that any additional personnel and

facilities provided for short wave communication

with Hong Kong are liable to be requisitioned for

military purposes.

On the termination of the inspection we returned to

the Commissioner's Office and had a final conference with Mr.

Chu. We decided that

(1) Tests should continue a few days longer to

ascertain