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June 26, 1911.

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In your Telegram lio. 85 of the 17th. ul-

timo you were so good as to invite an expression of my views as to the proposals put forward by Sir Frederick laugard in his Despatch of liarch 13 last with a view to place under the immediate control of the Hongkong Govern- mant all telegraphs within the Colony and so to exclude the existing Chinese Administration. An attentivo examin- ation of the history of the Hongkong-Canton Telegraphs kas served to confirm the impression recorded in my Telegram No, 145 of the 13th. instant that the course proposed is open to grave objections.

These objections chiefly reside in the fact

that the agreement by which the Chinese Telegraph Adminis-

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR EDWARD GREY, BART., E. P..

etc. etc. otc.

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