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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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