Faright
and the new North Pacific route contemplated by Falada
on the thes.
I don't think, however, that we should do anything to interfere with the chains of the Pender monopoly
The
Anti-Japanese Croises, without
in Love
ensuring
way Mauro
dressiles
from attack from there.
There is no other alternative. on John Pender is now dependent on the one line connecting Shanghai with Japan (Kobe or Nagasaki) for all the valuable telegraph business
with China &
* Japan.
When that line breaks,
as it has done
and may do
again, all this traffic
is diverted
and
his Cones,
the Great Northern Telegraph Company
through Russian paper.
May
be not by the
for
its own purposes
Even if monopoly
He frankly said to me that he did not make this
proposal from philanthropic
motives; but
knew that subsidies were
hopeless, but we could give him something which would be valuable: a monopoly, & he wanted to safeguard by a duplicate
line the valuable Chinese business
I told him Ignoring undertaking this, & that I even thought
his present proposal. carefully not prevent his laying the duplicate cable in
interests, if a monopoly was refused. that this meant the Cable
our
chant
Lus
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