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Enclosure

-Mr. Judd to Colonial: Secretary.

Hopy.)

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Hongkong, 14th April 1ans.

888.

I have the honour to communicate

the following for the information of His: Exellency the Govenier.

"I will no doubt be within the

Revill

- recollection of the Governm

and 188t there

das DONE

↑ that in 1885

correspondence

on

the subject of a direct cable betioun Singapore and Hongkong for political and strategie purposes, in view of the fact that the -existing cable is landed on French Invritory of Cape St. James, and that the alternative of communication with England

Mean

passes through Russia .

The Honorabile & Shivant, HD.

Colonial Secretary,

Hongkong.

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