CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882 — Page 205

but as I think it next to curtain that the

Janish (ompany, the

Intherm will endeavour to monopolise the transmission of Messages to Europe by this new live, the new live being

I conceive into the

first liich of a system of extension inland from (auton to Thanghai- I should be glad if instructions could be sent to the fort of Hongthong to protect the

unterst

interests of the Mitish (ompany, to par it lies.

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as un

It may not be in its power, ultimately li protect them at all, for if

a chinese line were

at some future date laid inland from Canton to the edge of

[owloon and, the Office the unther Company

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harring

been then

hansferred

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to the same 3/201-) submarine live were laid

prom Cowloon along

shore

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