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Strong feeling here that
there should be direct telegraphio
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communication with Singapore. The existing lines would be
stopped
in oa se
of
Avar
breaking out between breat Britain and France or Russia.
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As it has been.
of the
stated elsewhere, one
existing Telegraph lines passes_
through
French, and the other
through Russian territory; and in
x
See Gosun's Despertad h:136 of March 24/85.
the event of
war with those Powers, would, of
all Government messages
course,
be stopped, and our Naval
Forces
and Military
on
this station
would be cut off from communication with England. It is doubtful (as I
informed), if there would be any interference with private commercial me
messages.
3.
€16? Durran, the local
manager of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, has addressed
me a letter
letter stating
that he had
been instructed by the Chairman
The
(Mr.