PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.537
place, and not the laying of a new cable from Singapore, to be connected with the existing cable between Hongkong and Saigon.
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3. In answer to the 2nd paragraph
of your letter I am to state that their Lordships adhere to the views expressed in Admirally Letters of 25th Nov. 1887, M 0434 and 15th Feb. 1888. Ml 030: the recessity of establishing direct telegraphic communication between Hongkong
Singapore being
and
beyond question.
in their Lordships opinion.
4. der
regard
of your
letter
ту
to the last paragraph
Lords desire me to shale
that in view of the probability (which they believe to exist) of ensuring the laying of the cable between Halifax and Bermuda, if the Ambined efforts of the War Office, Colomal Office, and Admiralty
and they agree
are
ancentrated to obtain that
defer the question of the
establishment of direct communication between
Singapore and Hongkong until after the completion
of
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