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will then be in direct
communication with
the Chinese Imperial line whose terminus it is hoped will be made at HongKong.
The Danish
Company with the assistance of the Russian Minister will doubl
less indeavour to get Shanghai made the kominus of the Im- perial Line, so that all the traffic might be forwarded by the Danish and Reessian Lines to the Exclusion
of the English Com- pany. In
confirmation
of the above statements extracts from our