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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT
is responsible for the technical maintenance and development of the Colony's broadcasting and Aeradio services, mete- orological radio services, and the V.H.F. communications of various Government Departments.
During the year a new commercial wireless telegraph circuit was opened with Hanoi, and there were further exten- sions to the number of private circuits available for leasing to commercial concerns. A total of 7 private leased circuits now operate with San Francisco, Tokyo, Manila and Singa- pore, and others to Bangkok and Saigon are expected in the near future.
The telegraphic communications of the Colony are well served by 3 modern-type duplex submarine cables linked to the Company's worldwide network of 150,000 miles of sub- marine cables, and by its 15 high-speed wireless telegraph circuits working with all the major centres of the Far East and with Europe.
The overseas radio-telephone services, worked in collabora- tion with the Hong Kong Telephone Company, were further extended and new direct services were opened to Okinawa, countries in South and Central America, the Lebanon, Sai- gon, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In addition radio- telephone relay circuits were opened for Labuan and Jesselton with the United Kingdom and for Uruguay and Canada with Macau.
Local firms continue to appreciate the advantages of having a Teleprinter installed in their offices, and during the year numerous additional installations were carried out. The Com- pany now has 180 Teleprinters in use in the Colony.
There were improvements to the radio-telephone service with ships at sea, and ocean-phone facilities were introduced for ships at greater distances from Hong Kong. The Com- pany's radio-telephone service now links Hong Kong with 61 different countries, and this number continues to expand. During the year a phototelegram service was opened to
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