CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
F.o ref. to 325.8.
19H 24/6
My Lord,
I.B. It is the "Can presume that ... is to pay the contribution to the HangKey university. If so apparently, it is already under the control of the Chinese fort. This position is difficult.
I recommend withdrawal at once.
[left Chancellor of ... papers]
Dr. Sun
J.AC 27.7.19816
14 JUN 09 Government House, Hongkong, 12th May, 1909.
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Enclosure 1.
I have the honour to acknowledge your Confidential Despatch of February 5th last, referring to the working of the Telegraph from the Chinese border across British Territory. In order that Your Lordship may be fully in possession of the history of this matter, I enclose a copy of a précis compiled by Mr A. G. M. Fletcher, Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary. From this précis and from my Despatch of 3rd September, 1908, the following facts emerge:
(a) The telegraph line from the frontier to Hongkong Island is in part owned by the Chinese Telegraph Company and in part by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company. The latter, under the sanction of the Secretary of State dated 30th May, 1882, laid a cable across the harbour and constructed a land line to the then frontier at Kowloon; the former owned the line from the old...
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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