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Dear Sir,
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Navy League,
143
Hong Kong Branch
16th July.98
With reference to your letter to us
concerning the employment of foreign operators in
the Office of the Joint Telegraph Companies and
inviting suggestions from my Committee upon the
subject, I beg leave to inform you that the subject
was discussed at a recent meeting of my Committee,
and that they then decided to make the following
recommendations to your Committee upon the subject,
namely:-
(1).
(2).
(3).
(4).
That a separation should be made between the
offices and staff of the Eastern Extension
Telegraph Company and the Great Northern
Telegraph Company, because the latter
Company must be regarded as being to a
great extent under Russian influence.
That only British subjects should be
employed as Clerks in the Eastern Extension
Company.
That the above objects, (1) and (2), are of
so much importance that it would be worth
the while of the British Government to pay
a subsidy to the Eastern Extension Company
in order to achieve such objects.
That Government, or Service Messages should
be sent by way of Labuan instead of by way
of Cape St. James, so far as practicable.
I am,
dear Sir,
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Yours faithfully,
Henry E.Pollock. Hon. Secretary Navy League,
Hong Kong Branch.
Secretary Navy League
London.
Commander Crutchley, R.N.R.,
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