Peking, Oct. 6. ha negotiations, Mr MacMurray is Judging from the present lull in
not finding it: an easy matter to} rush Tuan Chi-jui into an endorsement of the Federal Wireless Contract. Negotiations have _apparently "struck a snag," and general opinion' is that this state of things is due to the conversations now proceeding in Washington beween the State Department and the ambassador. At the same Americans continue to press the Chinese for the fulfillment} Of their contract before the Tariff -eonference opens. tatives of the Amer-at least one of them, seem to be chary in indulging in discussion about their con-the present status of their conversations with the Chinese. "One of them, the lesser, the other his servant down to tell on the subject. Hence, one can only Conjecture what is going on from their side, but everything would indicate that there is no slackening, either in opposition to ce-operation, proposals prior to the erection of the Federal stations or to the whittling down of the contract it-
The Japanese are equally hostile it reception of the Chin scheme for an American-Japane: wireless consortium. At first it was thought that they were tinkering with the idea, if not inspiring it, but even if they were in that frame of mind a month ago, they now seem British and wireless arrangements in ti East. This in spite of the Washington conversation Anglo-French Interests \dy referred to the ent between the British, French and Japanese inter-would seem from this that pan would be guilty of a of faith, like China in selling the right twice to Japan and merica, if she decided to join with China and America to the exclusion of British and French interests, signed in 1 the signatories toward the present wireless con-_ troversy in Peking. While the high= powered station remained the fast word in wireless, there was excuse for jealousy of the hold which the Shanghai ion would give communications, but the highly suc-Ameri inter-ocean wireless cessful development of the Beam system, and its impend tion to the Pacific, has put Great Britain very prominently in the field of wireless communications in the Far East, whatever happens in Peking.
'A Case for Ca-operation Ca-operation must naturally suc-coed the present rivalries; in what form it is difficult to say. The agreement between the British, French and the Japanese provides for the eventual entry of the Amer-cans. The Federal interests refused to come in when the pact was first negotiated, for the good and sufficient reason that they had a costly contract with the Chinese Government which remained unfulfilled, unlike the rival contract, the Mitsui. In other words, they had the richest prize to bring to the feast, Probably Mr. Matsudaira is arguing again for American participation. At any rate, the haggling over the wireless " mess in Peking is bound eventually to end in mutual arrangements, which, it} Is to be hoped, will be as amicable as those operating internationally in South America. But if the Shanghai station should be put up, it would be as much a white elephant, to China, apparently, as the out-of-date aeroplanes which were unlonded on this country several years ago.
Japanese Suggestion of British and French Ca-operate Oct, 13.
Japan champions the British and French claims for inclusion in the wireless consortium in China in a Note handed in to-day. The Note to August 28 which in return for their abandonment of rival contracts they would nationalize wireless interests in the country with the help of Japanese-American loan.
It now transpires that the scheme was more or less on the lines of pened signed would logically, in to remain loyal to her even were she deous of throwing them over. The! lence has developed prodigiously, the advance now registered is of the time when powered station of the type was the latest. development. A revolution, matter of fact, has supervened, it foreshadows the scrapping of ex-stations for the simple, economical, and directional stations using the Beam or reflector short wave length system.
The Beam Development These improvements are persuade ing Japan to lean closer to the Marconi Company in the extension of her own wireless arrangements. Very shortly, I understand, Beam tests between England and Japan will be started, and these have interesting possibilities. The Marconi company are also constructing a Beam station for the Canadian government at Vancouver. This may eventually bring about a shortwave wireless span over the Pacific, and so cut the ground from under' the feet of the belated American memoranda previous submitted Japan, differing only in that Britain and France were excluded from the Chinese proposal.
'The Note announces Japan': lingness to scrap the monopolistic features of the Mitsui contract in favour of an international pool of all radio interests which Japan considers to be involved in the pre-mut. controversy. Tt points out that the exclusion of the British and French interests would cramp the development of wireless in China.
'Japan refers by inference to the Federal contract' calling for the erection of high-powered stations at Shanghai and elsewhere in a statement that in view of the poverty of the Chinese Government it would unwise at the present time to embark on any new wireless ventures.
Adherence to the principle Chinese control is premised throughout the Note, the only difference between the Chinese and Japanese points of view, it is remarked, being in details' which can be easily adjusted. Finally the Japanese Government says that it is encouraged to hope that American ce-operation in such a scheme is not impossible to obtai station in Shanghai, Land lines: from Vancouver would help to disseminate wireless messages from the Far East into the United States, at an extra cost of the terminal duty.
and when Hongkonig agrees to the erection of a beam station, which. the Singapore base project renders Possible within the near future, then the entire Pacific would have & network of Beam transmission, This accounts for the change in the outlook of.the British interests Japan Negotiating with China and United States Tokyo, Oct. 12.
Strict secrecy is being maintained regarding the wireless question, but it is understood that the Japanese Government, while respecting China's sovereignty, seems to) have made up its mind to solve the question by @ method satisfactory, to all the Powers concerned.
To that end, the Japanese Gov-lornment ig alleged to have opened
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