In the Air

The Mitsui Wireless Company (of Japan) is showing marked hostility to the plans of the Federal Telegraph Company of the United States to link America and China by a $13,000,000 wireless system.

The Japanese claim that they have a monopoly of wireless construction in China and are receiving the support of the Tokyo Government. The British are said to be siding with the Japanese.

Leon Bocqueraz, Vice President of the Federal Company, says: " The repudiation of our contract with China by the Peking Government would leave Chinese-American communications entirely in the hands of the British and Japanese. The American State Department has been appealed to, and is standing squarely behind the Federal Company." He goes on to say that the Japanese claim is in direct contradiction to their professed agreement with the open door policy, voiced at the Washington Conference.

Meanwhile it is stated that R. P. Schwerin, President of the Federal Company, is in China with a corps of engineers ready to start work on a chain of five wireless plants that will link China to America, independent of official control.