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I imagined that Hong Kong's answer would be that they
would only let the Chinese Telegraph Superintendent remain
on the terms they had already stated, namely, no political
activities, nominee to be approved by them first, and so on.
Mr Procter begged that H. H. Minister would telegraph to
anquire, for the information of the Cable Companies in
their negotiations with the Chinese Telegraph Adminsitra-
tion, how this matter would stand after 1930. He agreed,
at my suggestion, not to raise the point at the joint
interview to-morrow, seeing that the matter was one prima-
rily concerning H. M. Government alone (to the exclusion
of the Danes),
E. T.