16. Your Petitioners beg further most respectfully to represent that the continued existence of the Convention, the subject of this Petition, and of the negotiations for its approval or modification, is an impediment to all improvement in Telegraphic Communication between the East and Europe, and in particular prevents the Chinese Government from completing its telegraphic system and connecting it with the general network of Telegraphic communication throughout the world via Kiachta.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray Your Majesty--
1. To refuse your assent to the Convention or to any modification of it.
2. To represent to the Imperial Chinese Government, through Your Majesty's Minister at Peking, that any such Convention would be in violation of the spirit of existing Treaties.
3. To represent, further, to the Chinese Government that to enter into any such Convention would be detrimental to their own best interests.
4. To move His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China, to put an end definitely to the Convention as having failed to attain Your Majesty's Assent.
5. To move His Imperial Majesty, to join the International Telegraphic Convention and connect the Chinese Lines with the general European System.
6. To move the Governments, parties to the International Telegraphic Convention of 1875, having representatives at Peking, to instruct their Ministers to co-operate with your Majesty's Minister to the same end.
And Your Majesty's obedient and dutiful servants will ever pray.
On behalf of the Committee of the
Hongkong General Chamber
of Commerce.
Hohing 26th June 1890
China
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16. Your Petitioners lg further most respectfully to represent that the continued existence of the Convention, the subject of this Petition, and of the negotiations for its approval or modification, is an impediment to all improvement in Telegraphic Com- munication between the East and Europe, and in particular prevents the Chinese Government from completing its telegraphic system and connecting it with the general network of Telegraphic comniunication throughout the world via Kiachta.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray Your Majesty--
1. To refuse your assent to the Convention or to any modification of it.
2. To represent to the Imperial Chinese Government, through Your Majesty's Min- ister at Peking, that any such Convention would be in violation of the spirit of existing Treaties.
3. To represent, further, to the Chinese Government that to enter into any such
Convention would be detrimental to their own best interests.
4. To move His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China, to put an end definitely
to the Convention as having failed to attain Your Majesty's Assent.
5. To move His Imperial Majesty, to join the International Telegraphic Conven-
tion and connect the Chinese Lines with the general European System.
6. To move the Governments, parties to the International Telegraphic Convention of 1875, having representatives at Peking, to instruct their Ministers to co-operate with your Majesty's Minister to the same end.
And Your Majesty's obedient and dutiful servants will ever pray.
On behalf of the Committee of the
Hougtong Jineral Chamber
Hoghing 265 June 1890
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