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improvised makeshift measures.
Consequently
the Station is barely able to cope with the growth
of the existing traffic, and is definitely unable
to undertake the additional Services that offer
and that are of vital importance for the Colony's
commerce. Even China, until recently so
backward, now possesses stations which transmit
at a speed that the Hong Kong Station cannot cope
with; Java, French Indo China and Siam have radio
telegraphic and telephonic communication with Europe, and Shanghai will very shortly be linked by radio telephone with Europe and America.
Either the Merger Company or the Government must proceed forthwith to remedy the situation and put
an adequate development programme in hand to keep
abreast of the urgent and daily growing requirements
of the times. Much valuable time has already
been lost.
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3. I am not aware of the difficulties
presented by the Chinese Government's attitude
towards the Cable Companies and I cannot surmise
how far that attitude will be maintained when the
Merger Company takes over the Hong Kong Government's
Wireless Services. Up to the present however it
has been frankly hostile and quite recently
manifested itself by forcibly closing down the Amoy Cable office and transferring the traffic to
wireless. Had the Hong Kong Wireless Station been
unable
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