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remind

your

Lordship that

the Company already work.

• under the rules of the Con -vention, and would be quité prepared to formally adhere

to them, were

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it not

that

be

by

doing they would placed at a disadvantage with the Great Northern Tele- -graph Company; who, although adhering to the Convention. as far Their European oystem is concerned, are " entirely free to alter

somerhat delicate relations

in China, and their cable

from Japan and Shanghai

at HongKong

zras

landed

without the condition now

be imposed on

sought to

the Company by the Lords

Commissioners.

Moreover Iter.

Majestys Government waived

the condition when

the

Company's Hongtong - Thanghai

landed at Hong

Cable was

their

hong

Asiatic tariffs at

C

day's

notice.

aware

من

your

Lordship

the great Norther

Telegraph Company is Danish undertaking, with my Company

I hom

have

in February

year wre

1883.

For the last three

have striver, to

obtain for English enterprise, as represented by my Company, an equal fosting China with the Great

esi

Northern Company,

and

Thanks

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