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to Hongkong connected with the Great Eastern Extension
Telegraph Company's line in Hongkong, arrangements will be
tande therefore similar to those agreed upon for Shanghai."
Article 13 runs *All the above arti-cles and
agree-ments to apply to the Chinese line between Canton exi
Hongkong when connected in Hongkong with the Great Eastern
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Extension Telegraph Company's lines.*
Article 7 refers to the Company's office ado-
omodation at Chenghai and together with the two articles
above quoted clearly establishes the reciprocal nature of
the Shanghai and Hongkong arrangements.
The conclusion of the latter followed in Jarm
uery 1084 and their intimate connexion is again aphasized
by the accompanying letter from Mr. Dum, the Company's
special agent, no less then by the toms of the agrement
itsolf. Copies of these two documents I had the honour to
forward in my despatch No. 575 of December 21, 1908.
After protracted negotiations a third agree-
mant was signed on Cetober 17, 1864, by which the Company acquired facilities for maintaining through communication
between
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