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The Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company, Limited,
14556
66, Old Broad Street, London, E.C.
21st August 1883
22 AUG 03
My Lord,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 16th Instant enquiring, whether the project of laying submarine cable from Tonquin to Hongkong is still entertained by my Company.
In reply I have stated that although the French Chamber of Deputies has rejected the Convention entered into by the French Government with the Company, negotiations are still going on.
The Right Honble The Earl of Derby