WIRELESS FOR CHINA
AMERICA AND THE OPEN-DOOR PRINCIPLE. Washington, July S. Mr. C. Hughes (Secretary of State) has replied to the Chinese Minister’s inquiry whether America contemplated withdrawing support to the Federal Telegraph Company, which contracted to erect wireless stations for the Chinese Government) in view of the protests from Britain, Japan, and Denmark. Mr. Hughes states that the Government has no intention of withdrawing its support. He added that the communications from the above Governments tended to confirm the American Government’s belief that tho claims for urging the exclusion of the Federal Telegraph Company were founded on assertions of monopolistic preferential rights in a Chinese Governmental enterprise, which were unreconcilnble with the Treaty rights of Americans in Chinn or the open-door principle, which America continues to support whoiC-ncartedly. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 246, 12 July 1921, Page 5
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