CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 272

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THE FASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA AND

CHINA TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LICITED,

Electra House,

Finebury Favement,

LONDON,E.C.2.

27th June, 1921.

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Dear Mr.Wellesley:-

I beg to thank you for your letter of the 25th

instant on the subject of the proposed Cable and Wireless

Negotiations with the Chinese Teegraph Administration, and in

reply, to state that the telegram headed "Proposed Joint

telegram to Peking" was despatched, without any alteration

in the wording, to the Companies Representatives in Peking

on the morning of the 9th instant, or a few hours before we

met on that day! Enclosed I send you a copy of a further

telegram from Peking relating to the Wireless phase of the

negotiationa.

Your understanding of the attitude of the Cable

Companies towards cable communication between Shanghai,

Chefoo and Taku is quite correct.

The proposed cable connection with Swatow depende

upon an arrangement being arrived at with the Administration

possibly in the form of a Terminal Rets for the traffic

exchanged with that Treaty Port in order to protect the

Administration's/

Victor Wellesley, Eng.,C.B.,

aistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,

Foreign Office,

8.W.1.