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No. "Private".
Dear Mr.Thomson,
CO 30173
Rece
Rrot 1 OCT 10]
13th August, 1910.
352
I beg to acknowledge and thank you for your letter
dated 3rd August, and for a copy of the notes taken by His
Excellency on the occasion of our interview.
As I have been slightly misunderstood on the following
point, I should be glad if you would inform His Excellency that
I have had no communication on the subject with Sir John Jordan.
The Director General of the Chinese Telegraph Adminis-
tration, in the letter in which he asks if the Company will agree
to supervise and maintain the proposed new line between the old
and new boundaries at Kowloon, mentions that during the negotia-
tions with the British Minister at Peking, Sir John Jordan
expressed as his opinion that the Hongkong Government would be
satisfied if the proposed line was supervised by the Cable
Companies, and that if this xxx ÌÈɛ XSİN*t were arranged it
seemed immaterial whether the line was the actual property of
the Chinese Administration; and that Sir John Jordan further
intimated that if the Administration made such an arrangement,
it would not be necessary to make the question a diplomatic one.
The Chinese Administration have now been informed that
the arrangement proposed by them would not satisfy the Hongkong
Government, and that if the Administration wish to erect new
lines in the leased territory, it will be necessary for them to obtain permission from the Hongkong Government.
I am,
Yours very truly,
A.M.Thomson, Esq.,
Colorial Secretary,
Hongkong.
(sd) W. Bullard.