CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7] — Page 354

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Hongkong, March 10, 1925.

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The Hon: Mr. Fletcher, Assistent Colonial Secretary.

Hongkong.

Sir.

At the meeting held yesterday morning in your office, the Manager of the Hongkong Office of the Chinese Telegraph Administration said that we, the Kwangtung Telegraph Administration from which the Swatow Office must be excluded, were responsible for the debt to the Telegraph Cos. incurred up to December 1924; because we failed to pay our share of the cable charges. At the meeting we protested against this allegation and were prepared to prove not only that it was unfounded, but also that the debt was actually incurred by the Hongkong Office through their not handing over to the Telegraph Cos. the remittances we made to them as payments of the cable charges due to the Telegraph Cos. But before doing so we wish first to state on what grounds we claim our right to the further transmission charges on

inward traffic. These are as follows:-

1. The Canton-Sumchun lines are owned by us. The

Hongkong Office has no line whatsoever.

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2. We bear all the expenses of these lines and those of other lines in Kwangtung Province, whereas the Hongkong Office contributes nothing towards them. 3. A message going inland say to Wuchow on the Kwangai

border does not go direct from Hongkong to Wuchow, but passes through Canton, Fetahan, Sansui, Shiuhing and half a dozen or more other stations before it

reaches Wuchow. All these stations oertainly deserve