Sept. 19.
The British Legation filed a protest to-day against the exclusion of British interests from the scheme of wireless ce-operation outlined in the Government of China's Note of August last.
The protest calls attention to the charter of the national wireless administration, founded as a semi-official enterprise by the Marconi Company and the Chinese Government, in which certain rights for supplying mat-rials were conceded. It also directs the Chinese Government's notice to the radio resolution and the declaration passed by the Washington Conference. Yeh Kung-cho is working hard to obtain Amer-tean and Japanese adherence to his scheme for reconciling their con-fileting monopolistic interests.
The Japanese Government has not yet given a definite reply, but the American Government insists on the fulfilment of their Federal contract, their argument being that cooperation cannot be discussed until the terms of the agreement have been realised.
It is pointed out that the Federal contract is as yet merely a quasieqatract, whereas the Japanese have erected their station and have something from which to start. In these circumstances, say the Americans, the first requisite China to put America on the same footing as Japan, namely, to allow Federal stations to be erected as 'a prelinlinary measure to the discussion on ce-operation, In American official circles it is admitted that eventually there must Chi be some talk about ce-operation, but it is contended that if the Chinese Government wishes two countries to start again at scratch in- the wireless ace, then the Federal contract must go as far forward as the Mitsui.
The American Government attaches great' importance to the fulfillment of the terms of the Federal agreement and is not likely to consider the Chinese way out of the wireless imbroglio as an-/mounced in the August Note.
All three parties seem to be ignoring the British ease altogether.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.