CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7] — Page 352

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at the rate of exchange fixed for any quarter. Again they have actually cheated us in the matter of Press Telegrams. These telegrams are usually paid for by the receivers. This means that though we send them out we receive nothing for them, and the Cable Companies is not collect the charges on them from us knowing that the charges are paid over to their Offices in Shanghai. However, the Hongkong Office had until recently been collecting the charges from us. then not only lost our own revenue but had to pay out to the Chinese Office every month a sum, about $500, equal to the Cable charges on these messages and which we never

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For January, we reckon that we have paid over to the Cable Companies more than we ought, and our suspicion for the discrepancy, which is also entertained by the Cable Companies, is that the Hongkong Office is making us pay for messages that are not sent through us by altering the place of origin to "Shameen".

The Head Office is prepared to remit the charges due to the Cable Companies every half-month and my Director hopes that you will be able to urge the Cable Companies to have this agreed to as soon as possible.

My Director asks me to inform you that his desire

to have control of the Hongkong Office is actuated by the fact that the Hongkong Office is very badly managed and in consequence the telegrams of the Kwangtung Telegraph Administration have been greatly delayed causing us and the public no small amount of annoyance and inconvenience. Again my Director says that the constant interruption to the Canton Hongkong telegraph lines is due to the cutting

of the lines by troops fighting against the Canton Government and stationed along the Railway line. He believes that this would not happen if the Hongkong Office were under the control of his Administration as should the troops cut the lines they themselves would not be able to

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