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 176

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C.R.C.C. No.S/801.(G).

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HEADQUARTERS,

CHINA COMMAND,

HONG KONG.

April 10th 1931.

Your Excellency,

In continuation of my letter of even number dated April 8th 1931, I have the honour to suggest that the information contained therein should not be given in full to the Imperial & International Communications Company Limited.

Your Excellency will

I think agree that it is most undesirable that any firm should know the actual Line of Defence that would be occupied should the Colony be attacked by any Foreign Power.

I do not know from Your Excellency's letter whether the Company have themselves raised the question of defence or not, but I suggest that if the question of defence is raised by the Company that it should be told that "in the event of attack on the Colony by a First Class Power the defence of a Wireless Station at PINGSHAN could not be guaranteed".

I have the honour to be,

Your Excellency's obedient Servant,

(SD). J.W. SANDILANDS.

Major-General,

Commanding the British Troops in China.

To:-

His Excellency the Governor, &c.,

Government House, HONG KONG.