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Foreign Office Communications with Colonial Office with respect to Agreements &c. made between the Chinese Tele- graph Administration and the Eastern Extension Tele- graph Company and the Great Northern Telegraph Company.
Alston is away on leave, but
the encloses leuirantum has
been preparce in the Library Twill, shops, five You tu information which you wank
Your faithfully,
Loadtewart
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The Danish Company the Great Northern Telegraph
Company and the English Company
th
the Eastern Exten-
sion, Australasia and China Telegraph Company
both working to furnish China with telegraphic communi-
cation, found it desirable to endeavour to work in
harmony, and there resulted several agreements between
the two Companies and the Chinese Authorities, jointly
and severally.
The Colonial Office now (1911) say that they can
find no trace of having been informed of these Agreements
of a later date than January 21st, 1884.
The Agreement of October 17th 1884 (which granted
the Companies permission to land a cable at Sharp Peak,
and made other arrangements) was not communicated to the
Colonial Office by this Office.
On December 1st, 1886 an Agreement was made between
the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Great
Northern