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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 22nd. December, 1911.
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of
your cypher telegram of 20th. instant in which you inform me that
in reply to representations from the Eastern Extension Telegraph
Company (that they feared a prejudicial effect on their negotia- -tions with the Revolutionary party in consequence of action taken at Hongkong) you had assured them that no such action would
be taken by me without consultation with His Majesty's Minister
and approval of His Majesty's Government.
2.
It of course goes without the saying that I
should not have dreamt of taking any action without your prior
approval and without the concurrence of Sir John Jordan. The
fears of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company have I presume
been aroused because I enquired from Sir J. Jordan whether he considered that the present crisis in China would not afford a good opportunity for arriving at a satisfactory settlement of
this troublesome question, and he in turn I understand cou-
-municated my wishes to the Manager at Shanghai.
3.
In former despatches I have fully acquainted you with the general grounds of dissatisfaction with the existing condition of affairs. They are mainly two. (a) The fact that a Foreign Government owns and operates a line of telegraphs and an office in a British Colony which is entirely removed from the
control
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&C.,
&c.,
&c...