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shall be carried out in conformity with the Regulations
fixed by the International Telegraph Convention.
There is no reason therefore why the Company
should be allowed to dispense with the formality
of adhering to the convention for this section of
the beable seeing that it must be worked under
the regulations referred to; and as the Empire of
China has been invited to join the Convention
reason for refusing the
there is all the
more
Company the exemption asked for.
The exemption is probably required to permit
should be brought within the
Convention rules, the
Castern Extension Company will not be at any
disadvantage compared with other Companies, if,
as
suggested
in
my
letter
of
the 19
th
March 1883,
more of the
every company linking one
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Contracting states together be required to submit
to the conditions imposed by the convention, and
the inconvenience occasioned by differences of Rules
and Fariffs
will be avoided.
As stated in
my
letter of
the
19
March 1983
the Great Northern Telegraph company, who have
alteration
of any
of rates or rules being made at
any moment with a view of helping the Company
in any competition which it
may
have to undergo
a beable from Hongkong, adhere to the Convention
and it would be unfair to that Company not
to require the reastern Extension Telegraph Company
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with any other leable Company of Administration;
but as it is the desire of all the Foreign Telegraph
Administrations that all private Alegraph Companies.
should
to do the same.
In compliance with the request contained in
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the last paragraph of your Lordships' letter
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