CO129-532-8 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International Communications- Ltd.... 19-12-1930 - 19-4-1932 — Page 120

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PROPOSED TRANSFER OF GOVERNMENT WIRELESS

SERVICES IN HONG KONG TO IMPERIAL AND

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.

(I.C.C. 1324).

THE COMMITTEE had under consideration correspondence

from the Colonial Office concerning the transfer of Government

Wireless Services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International

Communications, Ltd., (Paper No: I.C.C. 1324).

MR. VERNON said that he had seen Mr. King, the Hong Kong

Governments' Electrical Engineer, and had written to the

Company urging the importance of a speedy decision as regards

the transfer of the Government wireless services to the

Company. The Hong Kong Government wireless service were

inclined to take on certain extensions, and it was not certain

whether the Company would be prepared to take over this extend-

ed service. He had heard from Sir Basil Blackett that the

Company hoped to arrive at a decision shortly. Despatches from

Hong Kong indicated that the proposed site for the new wireless

station was in the leased territory, but, as the Committee

knew, China had declared that it did not recognise the right

to erect wireless stations upon any leased territory, and he

questioned whether it was wise to put up a wirelese station on

such territory in the face of this declaration on the part of the

There were, he said, both military and

Chinese Government.

air force wireless stations on the leased territory, but it

was rather a different project to erect a new long range wire-

less station.

MR. CALDER, in reply to Lord Passfield, said that the

lease of the territory concerned had 99 years to run, from

1898.

CAPTAIN DORLING said that he had heard from Mr. Vyvyan,

the Company's engineer, that it was intended to erect the

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