CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 178

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Reking

And

Company,

as well as

fo

your toxcellency, that there

should be no doubt whatever

the matter, which ought

in

now

to be definitely settled,

1

humbly petition your Excelling that you will request the Yamon to ratify officially the conventing and inform the Foreign Min -isters at Peking that this

It having

has been done.

Come

Each wostick to the Great Northern Telegraph land lines Coy's Knowledge that the Chine. Government contemplates the construction of a telegraph line overland from Tuntun and Peking to Maduroctock I humbly beg to point out

that such a

line

world be.

in opposition to the convention above named, which promises that for tiventy (20) years the Chinese Gorcanment will build no lines in opposition to a

a my of the Company's Cables, and such as are laid from Chena to Mladivostock. Further that such a line, or

line con - -necting the Chinese with the

Russian telegraph systion

any

could in

70

way

become a

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