[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
C.O.
[July 9, 1908]
[RECP SECTION 7100/08]
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(Confidential.) Sir,
No. 1.
Foreign Office to General Post Office.
Foreign Office, July 1, 1908.
WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 7th ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Postmaster-General, a copy of a letter from Mr. Hesse,* of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, on the subject of the outstanding difficulty between China and Japan concerning the Manchuria telegraph question.
I am to inquire whether Mr. Buxton would recommend that a further representation should be made to the Chinese Government, with a view to their acceptance of the compromise proposed by the Japanese Delegates to the recent International Telegraph Conference at Lisbon.
I am, &c.
(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Mr. Hesse, Confidential, June 22, 1908.
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