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· Telegram -

Strong feeling here that

there should be direct telegraphio

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communication with Singapore. The existing lines would be

stopped

in oa se

of

Avar

breaking out between breat Britain and France or Russia.

Propatch by Mail ?

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As it has been.

of the

stated elsewhere, one

existing Telegraph lines passes_

through

French, and the other

through Russian territory; and in

x

See Gosun's Despertad h:136 of March 24/85.

the event of

war with those Powers, would, of

all Government messages

course,

be stopped, and our Naval

Forces

and Military

on

this station

would be cut off from communication with England. It is doubtful (as I

informed), if there would be any interference with private commercial me

messages.

3.

€16? Durran, the local

manager of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, has addressed

me a letter

letter stating

that he had

been instructed by the Chairman

The

(Mr.

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