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comunication between Sharp Peak and Foochow analogous
to those already granted between Woosing and Shanghai (soo
Foreign Office Despatch to Mr. O'Conor No. 91 of May 4,
1085).
The 1883 Agreement relating to Shanghai was
communicated to the Foreign Office by Kr. J. Fonder, h.P.,
in a covering letter where the following passage occurs:--
*As I have already explained to you, we should
much prefer the Chinese land Line system consing at Kowloon,
whore we could take over the traffic and transmit it to
Hongkong: but should the Chinese insist upon coming inte
Hongkong we should be propared, with the approval of His
Majcsty'a Goverment, to give them accomodation in our
telegraph office on the same conditions as we enjoy similar
accomodation at Shanghai, as defined by Article 7 of the
Agreement herewith, and the use of a wire on our Kowloon
line, provided it was not used to compete for traffic with
the cable system, or in any other way prejudicially to the
Capany's interests".
Cloarly thon the Company could not have
obtained
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