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that another applicant may be in reality

the

agent or

Partner, opo

-off one of the English

Companies interested in telegraphie lines to

India, and, that if the concession

be given

to

to the (second) applicant referred to, the

Coubles 150,000 will be

deposit of

be given the Russian Government, but that the Government, will after a time, discover that

the payment has been made to stifle the Russian line, and Roubles 1500,000 will, be cheerfully paid for such a purpose.

The English Company.

by

4. W. Tietjen submits to the Imperial Government that he alone of all the competiti &hould receive the privilige and that it will be in all ways to the advantage of the Russian Eovernment= that the concession_ be given to him. He says the high & landing, respectability and responsibility of himself and of his associates in the matter is knowle to the Imperial Government. He instances his succenful establishment

of