CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 534

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The prompt actions of Sir Thomas Wade, upon my protists averted the danger.

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new fact was confidentially com municated to me by a foregr friend. It was it seems the inten tion of the Gt. Northern Company to abstain from knowing their. much damaged coast line, which is laid from Hongkong to amoy and Shanghai.

The Sea line that connect Shanghai with Japan and Madivostock was to have been

The projected Cand

maintained.

line suptim, which was

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been barred against you and all others would have been in hands. and under sole control of the Danish Company.

Thus the G.72. boy

would not have sequined a const line, and the concession of sea port monopoly would have excluded you and all other competitons. The Sea line to Wladivostock would han givin access to the Russian land lines, and a land line of 1300 miles across Mongolia to Kachtä would han afforded an

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routs. You would have been effec- Keally shut out from China beyond Hongkong.

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