CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 17

Mission from

Office for

DOD

15

the Chinese Foreign

American Cable

to be baken into Treaty Ports under

nonal conditions of convenieure

of shipping

We

AA

informed

that the Wanish Company

is now in discredit with the

Chinese officials, and that the

the proposed

construction of

line from Tientsin to Pettin which they

coere

to have made,

has been promised by the Viceroy to

Or

English Telegraph Construction Com -pany. The Russian Minister however

arsenformed,

d, use his utinost-

will, we a

inflecruce during

the winter to rehabilitater

the Danish interests, and when he leams that the scheme referred to in

the

next paragraph is in favor, he will

endeavour to secure such Concession

the Danish

as will give

Russian systems the transmisse.