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the seal of his office to the Canton Government.
A possible alternative course, to which the Hongkong
Government will raise no objection, would be that the
control of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hongkong
should be handed over by your Department to the Eastern
Extension Telegraph Company in whose building the Office
is situated.
The settlement of this matter is long overdue and
& decision will have to be taken as soon as I return to
Hongkong in the early days of next month.
I am, etc.,
(Signed) C. Clementi.