In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. 33634/11.
and addrek --
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Ofee,
Loudon.
60 443 29315
RECE
FouRigs Dericit !! !
September 5th, 1911.
Sir:-
I an directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknow-
Gov.
ledge the receipt of your letter 27206/1911 of the
25th. ultimo enclosing a copy of a despatch from the
Governor of Hong Kong in which His Excellency again
requests sanction for the course of action which he
advocates in regard to the Hong Kong-Canton telegraph
line.
Sir E. Grey fully realises the force of the con-
tentions advanced by Sir F. Lugard, but, in view of the
danger likely to result to important British interests
in China if His Excellency puts an end in the manner
he proposes to the anomalous position now occupied in
respect of these telegraphs by the Chinese Government,
the Secretary of State considers that some compromise
must be found and that the effect on the Eastern Ex-
tension Telegraph Company of any changes that may be
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
effected