the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce should be informed,
in reply to their petition,
that the
matter is
now in
Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. March 1890.
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abstinence, but that their
representations on the subject
will be considered.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant, G. Sanderson
Sir E. Monson,
No. 31, Commercial, August 21, 1886.
May 18, 1887.
Mr. Pender, September 15, 1887.
IN 1886 Mr. (now Sir John) Pender, as Chairman of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, came to an arrangement with the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Denmark, thereby closing the old rivalry of the two Companies in regard to the extension and working of telegraphic communication with China. To use Mr. Pender's words, the result was "practically the substitution of an English for a Russian control over the communication before mentioned."
The two Companies then set to work to get what Mr. Pender described as "a joint purse arrangement between the Companies and the Chinese Telegraph Administration on mutually beneficial terms."
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They informed us that they had the support of the Russian, German, and British Ministers, and that Russia proposed to give the Chinese connection at Vladivostock immediately the Agreement was signed, so as to save an alternative and more expensive line by Kiachta.
The negotiations resulted in an Agreement being signed on the 10th August, 1887, of which the principal features were--
1. That the Companies retain the tariff on international traffic with the cable stations in China and Hong Kong, paying to the Chinese a terminal tax on the traffic with Shanghae, Foochow, and Amoy.
2. That the Chinese retain the tariff on international traffic with the interior of China.
3. That the coast-line or local traffic should be worked at equal rates by either the cables or land lines.
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the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce should be informed,
in reply to their petition,
that the
matter is
now in
Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. March 1890.
>
CONFIDENTIAL.
(0918.)
341
J.
17409
Rec2 3 SEP 30
Memorandum on the Chefoo Telegraph Agreement of August 10, 1887, Sir J. Pender's Letter of September 18, 1889, and subsequent Correspondence.
abagance, but that their
representations on the subject
will be considered.
I am, Six,
Your most obedient,
humble servant, SpSanderson
Sir E. Monson,
No. 31, Commer- cial, August 21, 1886.
May 18, 1887.
Mr. Pender, Sep- tember 15, 1887.
IN 1886 Mr. (now Sir John) Fender, as Chair- man of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, came to an arrange- ment with the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Denmark, thereby closing the old rivalry of the two Companies in regard to the extension and working of telegraphic communication with China. To use Mr. Pender's words, the result was "practically the substitution of an English for a Russian control over the communication before mentioned."
The two Companies then set to work to get what Mr. Pender described as " a joint purse arrangement between the Companies and the Chinese Telegraph Administration on mutually beneficial terms.
33
They informed us that they had the support of the Russian, German, and British Ministers, and that Russia proposed to give the Chinese connection at Vladivostock immediately the Agreement was signed, so as to save an alternative and more expensive line by Kiachta.
The negotiations resulted in an Agreement being signed on the 10th August, 1887, of which the principal features were--
1. That the Companies retain the tariff on international traffic with the cable stations in China and Hong Kong, paying to the Chinese a terminal tax on the traffic with Shanghae, Foochow, and Amoy.
2. That the Chinese retain the tariff on inter- national traffic with the interior of China.
3. That the coast-line or local traffic should be worked at equal rates by either the cables or land lines.
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