GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY
OF COPENHAGEN.
ABRIDGED REPORT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
HELD AT COPENHAGEN ON THE
15TH APRIL, 1882.
H. C. SHAW, Esq., Presided.
THE Chairman, C. F. TIETGEN, Esq., opened his address by remarking that the past year had undoubtedly been the most significant of those ten years during which the Company as now constituted had existed. This not only referred to the extraordinary progress which the Telegraph had made in China, but also to the prosperous state of the Company's general business. He then reported as follows:-
State of the Cables-As in former years the Cables had not been free from interruptions. In the far East these had not occurred as often in the first half of the year as in the latter half, when they had unfortunately been more frequent and of longer duration. The Shanghai-Amoy-Hong-Kong Cables had been interrupted for 14 days, the Shanghai-Nagasaki Cable for 4 days, and the Nagasaki-Wladiwostock Cable, to which Cable nothing had happened since the beginning of 1878, had been interrupted from the 1st November to the 7th December, and again from the 30th December to the 23rd January this year. In Europe the Cables bad also on several occasions been broken, as well in the North Sea as in the Baltic, bat generally the repairs had been effected very speedily. Some of these breaks, happening at the time of the violent gales last autumn, when the Cables of other Companies also suffered severely, were no doubt attributable to causes beyond human control, but most of the other cases could be traced to carelessness in anchoring and to trawl fishing, and he had therefore much pleasure in adverting to the question of
Protection of Cables,- question which it had often been desired to bring to an issue. The time had fortunately arrived for this. At the Fishery Conference held at the Hague last summer, the Danish Representative, acting upon instructions received from his Government, brought the matter before the Congress, and it was anunitously agreed that the different Governments should be recommended to follow it up. Since then, this Company had, in conjunc- tion with all the other Cable Companies, applied to the English Government, who readily promised to take the matter into consideration. The same had been the case with other Governments,
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