258
to
bf the Cunese Gommment the Butal Legation at Rebung
in 1870 to the effect that
it should
be open
to all
to lay down Cables in the
Chinese seas,
through not to lave
land
the same
there is one
pout where the
otre
antagonim of the Cengleske Compreny has assumed. immediately tracheal shape verf the question
of the construction of aline
between Hong Kong
and Canton
The establishment ofthus
live
Mas
been entrusted
to a
Camere
Company
under the Control of
the Gournment and the Bauch Company has on the 25th of Dometer
concluded a contract with the Currese Company
for the construction
of the line. The length of this
line is 14O
it
extremity.
English
Jules and
only at the southernmost
tthat it would touch
on Butesh territory viston overland
the small pemmoula
line
on
of Kowloon and thence a
But
marine portion to Victonces, the Caputat of Hong Hong The laughed. Company
has not only done with
all in its power to prevent the
conclusion of this Contract between
Thi
The