whom
a
letter is
similar
brought
addressed, concur
Lyttelton proposes
to telegraph to the
O. AG that the sailors
when convalescent
should be sent back
to Russia through the
medium of the Russian
consul at Hongkong
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1904
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Hongkong Canton & Macao Steamboat Co.
letter from their authorised agents re French Steamers:
sending reply
(Minutes.)
There are
only two conceivable
ways of protecting British-owned lines from their competition with Foreign subsidized lines.
(1) to prohibit the latter
(2) to penalize them
or counterbalance the
benefit of the subsidy.
Either course
at present
instance appears equally
impracticable.
I think we can only reply that the system
stops regrets that there appears to be no
practicable method of...