CO129-514-5 Hong Kong Wireless Service 18-6-1928 - 30-9-1929 — Page 3

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enterprise any systems of wireless communication excent, perhaps, for purely local purposes.

I told him that we had authorised a scheme in

Hong Kong which involved the expenditure of a

certain amount of money, that this scheme

undoubtedly involved the Hong Kong Government wireless undertaking through services which

would be in competition, to some extent, with

I.I.C. and that the Hong Kong service was

already earning a surplus over expenditure

and that the probable surplus in the immediate future was put at $100,000.

I

said that I thought it was a case either for

I.I.C. to make us an offer, or for us, after

communication with the Government of Hong Kong,

to say whether we were prepared to sell and to name the price. He suggested that it would

be most convenient if we corresponded semi-

officially until we were in a position to

make on one side or the other a formal

offer. If you see no objection I should

like to send him the I.C.C. paper No.953

which contains most of the information that

we have. The paper is marked Secret, but I

do not think that there is anything in it

which could not properly be disclosed to

Sir B. Blackett, and it is obviously more

convenient that we should put our cards on

the table.

I told him that I did not know

anything about the joint purse arrangements

between