CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 137

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to Hongliong

and

thence to Shanghai

joining up the Treaty Ports en route

lo

ہو گا

100vátero

bre

connection with the

Submarine

English Eirect System of

cables

to

the

Fast, and in December of

that year. Prospections

EX

the Public dever

describing

was iwued li

the hopect and

cmplying for the necessary capital for carrying

cxx.

out the coort.

The Company likewise despatched

Agent to

China who obtained from

the Chinese Government in May 1870.

the instrumentality of

through

Her

Setting permission

Wajesty's Ministers at Petting

to

connect Shanghai with Kangliong

the

and any of the

the two places

An

appeared in

Treaty Corts between

Announcement hower

the Newspapers. Sernetary

of the following year (1870) that the Danish Company

0

wow about to lav

cable from Hongkong to Shanghire

to be

worket Ex conncelion with the

Russian Government land lines passing through Siberia and Russia, chowcipion, to avoid competition at this early

stage of submarine -Telegraphy - which

would

have

been dwarsbrows to been

foll

Companies