CO129-514-5 Hong Kong Wireless Service 18-6-1928 - 30-9-1929 — Page 38

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Telephone :

L NDON WALL 3240.

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Imperial and International RECEIVED Communications Limited,

Electra House. Moorgate,

3 JUL 1929

London...

COL. OFFICE ndon. Fo2 2nd July,

My dear Vernon,

E.C.2.

1929.

In continuation of my letter of the 31st May, I am

now advised that the Reconstruction Council at Shanghai have opened a direct wireless service with the Post Office at Hongkong from the 1st instant in both directions at the same rates as those charged by the Cable Companies by the China coast cables.

The value of this traffic to the Cable Companies

is approximately £42,000 per annum.

This is not only a violation by China of the 1896 Agreement, Section 2 of Article 8, which provides as follows:-

"The Administration as well as the Companies

undertake to transmit between all the said ports all terminal telegrams handed to their offices, and the total charges collected for these telegrams by the two contracting parties shall be divided in the following manner, viz:

The Administration's share is the total of the charges collected for all telegrams exchanged terminally between Shanghai and Foochow, between Shanghai and

R.V.Vernon, Esq., C.B.,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.