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16. Your Petitioners beg further most respectfully to represent that the continued existence of the Convention, the subject of this Petition, and of the negotiations for its approval or modification, is an impediment to all improvement in Telegraphic Communication between the Fast and Europe, and in particular prevents the Chinese Government from completing its telegraphic system and connecting it with the general network of Telegraph communication throughout the world via Kiachta.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray Your Majesty—
1. To refuse your assent to the Convention or to any modification of it.
2. To represent to the Imperial Chinese Government, through Your Majesty's Minister at Peking, that any such Convention would be in violation of the spirit of existing Treaties.
3. To represent, further, to the Chinese Government that to enter into any such Convention would be detrimental to their own best interests.
4. To move His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China, to put an end definitely to the Convention as having failed to attain Your Majesty's Assent.
5. To move His Imperial Majesty, to join the International Telegraphic Convention and connect the Chinese Lines with the general European System.
6. To move the Governments, parties to the International Telegraphic Convention of 1875, having representatives at Peking, to instruct their Ministers to co-operate with your Majesty's Minister to the same end.
And Your Majesty's obedient and dutiful servants will ever pray.
Amoy 27th July 1890
Robens diver
Chairman of the Amoy General Chamber of Commerce
Francis Cass
Joint Chairman of the Canton General Chamber of Commerce
S.M. Bench, Alush
members of the Committee
Canton General Chamber of Commerce
1889. Go
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Exco Krithing
Secretary
Under Secretary of State Foreign Office
MINUTE.
Mr. Frouch 29 Sept.
Mr.
Sir,
With reference to the letter from this Dept. of the 20th instant, regarding the Telegraph Convention between the Chinese Government and the Great Northern and Eastern Extension Telegraph Companies,
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Mr. Meade.
Sir R. Herbert.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
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I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Marquis of Salisbury,
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