of British North Bonus have addressed them with a view to the extension of
means
of a cable
system to that place by from Singapore to British & North Borneo,
touching
en route at Labuan & Jarawak,
Should this arran
be rrangement opportunity would be
carried out, an
afforded, by continuing the new cable from North Bornico to Hongkong, of giving This Colony direct communication with that rapidly developing country,
same
and of the
time providing that alternative route to singapore touching only on British Territory, which has been so geneully. recognised as politically & strategically important.
I would point out that the
cables are
the existing
amply sufficient to carry
considerable increase of the present traffic, and as the additional traffic due to the
new cable would be
retablishment of the
entirely insignificant in proportion to the large outlay, my Directors instruct
me
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to state that the extension could only be carried out in consideration of the undertaking
being subsidized by the Government interested.
I would mention that the subsidies
named in.
my
-Cotton of eApril 14th 1888 were
for a duration of 20 years, that being the period upon which all our actucerial. calculations are bazed, and dam now- instructed to inquire whether the Government
of Hongkong would be disposed to grant subsidy for 20 years for this purpose, and if so, of what amount.
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taken by
gather that
one...
a
of the objections
the Chamber of Commerce to formal. proposals was that the advantages
were
beg to
e purely political, I would now point out that the presont proposition, if
carried into effect,
would subserve both
political and commercial interests. I have re
(Signed) Walter Judd,
Manager
in China.
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