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Government, House
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Hongkong, 22nd. Lay, 1911.
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With reference to my Confidential letter
No. 1425/1903 of the 17th. May, 1909, I have the honour to for- -ward for Your Excellency's information the following corres- -pondence:-
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Lord Crewe's Despatch of 29th. June, 1909,
Gov. 11966/ and my Despatch of 13th. March, 1911.
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I have also to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter of the 27th. of last February informing me that the telegraph line between Canton and Hongkong is among the lines taken over by the Board of Communications and that the transfer to the Imperial Government came into force on the 30th. of last January. I have further received from Mr. Harcourts a copy of your Confidential Despatch No. 97 of the 1st. of last March to the Foreign Office covering the draft of a proposed agreement between the Board of Communications, the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Great Northern Telegraph Company, and Mr. Harcourt has asked for my observations on the draft agreement in so far as it appx affects the Chinese Telegraph line to Hongkong.
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I have been informed that the Authorities of
the Imperial Chinese Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway have an agreement with the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration by which the latter are constructing the telegraph line along the Chinese Section of the Railway and are handing over for the use of the Railway a certain number of wires. This line is now
completed from Canton as far as Chou Pin (54 miles) and will be
used by the Railway as far as Sheklung. The Railway Telegraph line will be completed from Canton to Shamchun during next month and the wires appropriated to the Imperial Chinese Tele-
-graph Administration will be then put into use by them, and
have
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