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cable I would suggest that our Consul at Canton be instructed to support

Company's application of the Viceroy of the District for permission

to land at Canton.

We are

quite

avari

that a Land

Line from thanghai to Hongkong has

been contemplated, and if laid would seriously affect the existing

submarine

cable between those ports, but in

but in case

of interruption of the former the latter conte

A

would form

The same

valuable alternative Line.

argument would affly ton Land Line from Canton & haphy,

but whether it is laid or not it in

in my opinion most important

That

that our

line should be brought into

connection with the Chinese Imperial

system shose Terminus, it is hoped,

will be at Canton, ein order that a portion, at least, of the Traffic might be carried

by the English System

and not diverted on

to the Danish and Russian Lines as sould

be the case

were made th

if Shanghai Terminus of the Chinese System.

our

We have already communicatia

news through

through the Colonial Offic

to the Governor of Houghong in the

seuse indicated in Sir J. Wade's

Telegram.

I niclose two additional copies

of the maf shearing the existing

telegraphic