Hongkong.
Se79 13th August, 1872..
Governor
Sir Arthur Kennedy, K. C. M.G.
To
The Right Honourable
The Earl of Kimberley.
Police Force.
Reports Telegram regarding
recruits required for –
THE INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICES, 16, TELEGRAPH STREET, LONDON, E.C.
B.C. 79 459 6'8 Mon 296.3 267 2
London 72
Central Station,
From Station
187
The following message has been handed to this Company by the Postal Telegraph Department for transmission to India, VIA TEHERAN, and has been duly forwarded:-
Governor
Hongkong
Horspool.
Police special
be
not
not
Come
Twenty
from they
Kimberley.
Direct overland telegraphic communication with Persia, India, Penang, Singapore, Java, China, Australia, and the East generally, speedy and certain by the wires of this Company, VIA TEHERAN.
English clerks and inkwriting recording instruments of the latest and most approved construction are employed throughout line, and there being but three, or at the most four, transmissions between London and India, the greatest advantages are offered in point of speed and accuracy.
All messages intended to be forwarded by this Company's line should be marked by the sender VIA TEHERAN, for which no charge is made.
All Postal Telegraph Stations throughout the Kingdom accept messages to be sent VIA TEHERAN.
Books of this Company's Special Message Forms, with the words "Via Teheran" printed on, will be sent, post free, on application to the Company's Office, as above.
W. ANDREWS,
Manager and Secretary.