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fact that the present means of communication on the one hand vary that such a line, if laid, with Labuan. I believe, wrote to Cochin China and on the to mira in to the in this same vin Siberia.
This matter was the subject of correspondence with the Government and was the subject of discussion in the Legislative Council by the proposals made by this Company to meet political requirements involving a subsidy from the Imperial Government and from the Straits Settlements and this Colony.
76 7 the quuchin has not since been raised. In view even vital time of fields of she very great importance of the conc Lahnen, Adenial Salmon strongly recommended that the Company has for some time had under consideration the advisability of duplicating the existing cable between Singapore & Manila, a length of about 500 miles.
For the information of the Executive Council, the Directors would, if supported by the Govt, be prepared to consider the practicability of effecting this object by laying without delay a cable from Singapore to Labuan and there to connect with our existing Manila to Borneo line, to Broughing.
This route would give both Singapore and Borneo independent ...