495
remind
your
Lordship that
the Company already work.
• under the rules of the Con -vention, and would be quité prepared to formally adhere
to them, were
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it not
that
be
by
doing they would placed at a disadvantage with the Great Northern Tele- -graph Company; who, although adhering to the Convention. as far Their European oystem is concerned, are " entirely free to alter
somerhat delicate relations
in China, and their cable
from Japan and Shanghai
at HongKong
zras
landed
without the condition now
be imposed on
sought to
the Company by the Lords
Commissioners.
Moreover Iter.
Majestys Government waived
the condition when
the
Company's Hongtong - Thanghai
landed at Hong
Cable was
their
hong
Asiatic tariffs at
C
day's
notice.
aware
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your
Lordship
the great Norther
Telegraph Company is Danish undertaking, with my Company
I hom
have
in February
year wre
1883.
For the last three
have striver, to
obtain for English enterprise, as represented by my Company, an equal fosting China with the Great
esi
Northern Company,
and
Thanks
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