CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 496

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

because the concession was

to them

given question of the obligatory clausce

before the question of

was raised, and it was

was a

accendingly held

Heat a new condition could not be intro.

·duced, the

it

lefon

was

graut having been once made:

however intended to insist

the condition in all future

cases.

Catton if it is dispensed with now, they will sofer back to the present

case as a

want to

infinitum.

3. The

precedent when they next

Cay

They argue

a live and so on

ad

Let

our

compliance

with these clauses be dispensed with

because tite Danish company

-a-

-a. wave not

quind to comply with them when they laid their cable from

Shanghai to Hongthong and 161 do

not

With them in

comply Asiatic System.

As to .a.

493

regard

to their

when the Danish comfa-

my laid their line, I gather the telegraphic convention

of 1875

had

not been made, and briously they could

not be called upon to adhere to

an agreement As to -6.

which was not in existence.

The General Post Office latter

states distinctly that the Danish company do adhere to the convcation, This letter states that they

adhere

ed to their European

to it

only in regard System of

if

an al

statement

is considered

the latter is

treating the Fasten

argument for treating

company exceptionally, it might be well

to

refer to the G7.0. and find out

how far it is corect.

It seems to me

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