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position as regards the Chinese Telegraph office in Hong
Kong makes it necessary for me to add that it is impossible
for me to countenance any continuation of this long drawn
out dispute, and that, failing a speedy and satisfactory
solution of the question of this appointment, I shall have
no alternative but to close the office at once and to
entrust its management provisionally to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company.
I have, ato..
(Sgd)
C. Clementi.
Governor,