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cable I would suggest that our Consul at Canton be instructed to support
Company's application of the Viceroy of the District for permission
to land at Canton.
We are
quite
avari
that a Land
Line from thanghai to Hongkong has
been contemplated, and if laid would seriously affect the existing
submarine
cable between those ports, but in
but in case
of interruption of the former the latter conte
A
would form
The same
valuable alternative Line.
argument would affly ton Land Line from Canton & haphy,
but whether it is laid or not it in
in my opinion most important
That
that our
line should be brought into
connection with the Chinese Imperial
system shose Terminus, it is hoped,
will be at Canton, ein order that a portion, at least, of the Traffic might be carried
by the English System
and not diverted on
to the Danish and Russian Lines as sould
be the case
were made th
if Shanghai Terminus of the Chinese System.
our
We have already communicatia
news through
through the Colonial Offic
to the Governor of Houghong in the
seuse indicated in Sir J. Wade's
Telegram.
I niclose two additional copies
of the maf shearing the existing
telegraphic