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Admiralty,
2 May 1888
60
Sir.
With
reference
to
Your
letter of
the ant
Lecret 378
Ultime and to previous correspondence relative to
the establishment of direct telegraphic communication
between Hongkong and Singapure: I am Ammanded
by my Lords Commissioners of the Adminally to acquaint you for the information of Lord Knutsford, that they Oncur
in the course proposed
in
the
2nd paragraph of your letter under reply, vest.
that in the
event of war
the cable outside
Saigon should be out, by grappling the existing
cables outside that place, and joining them; thus
establishing direct telegraphio ammunication
between Singapore and Hongkong
same time cutting out Saigon.
and at the
2. My Lords have communicated the above decision to the Commander-in-Chief
the China Station with directions that in
on
the
Under
event
Secretary of Stats
Colonial Affin
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