political objections
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land system, the question of a new cable to con next Hongkong with Changhai
and Japan will have urgency.
Again, as a real objection, the Danish officials are, with a fer exceptions, insolent, meddle -come, disliked and mistrusted.
If you want proof, you can' refer to your agent, Mr. Equier, and if you consider the reasons. why the Oriental Telephone bey has succeeded ill, you will find proof of what I cart.
Besides, British political
and commercial interest an rast and chill grow in Chind. An alliance works injury to British enterprise, and all-
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countrymen an pained to see that a hostile and evil asscan ition such as that of the Northern loty is supported, almost entirely. by revenues drawn from Britisti tradors.
The attempt made last year, happily discomfited, to obtain a monopoly in China was carried out by shameful ways. The great Chinese openly say that wilful deception was practised
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