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In the mentine I get inte touch with ir. Inoe.
the leal representative of the Metern zutena lan cable
Company, ant & lasovured that he had already been informally
syproached by the Minese Telegraph administration about
the proposal. Ne meened to think that his principals woul &
be quite prepared to give the propomal a trial, since they
vero naturally alone that any solution some te should be
reached by agroeme ná with, rather than in diarogarë of,
the Chinese Talograph administrat tons
Ne, the
On September 19th homver Mr. Ju oame round to ss00
me to say that he had delayed neznowledgent and emmtizam-
tion of my lo tter because the Minister of Communicationa
waa namking diffimul tion over the propoml.
*iniuter, had suggested as an alternative, that a new
Superintendent, who could be persons rate to K.M.Legation, might be appointed and a mettlement reached by permitting
him to tɛke charge,
Mr. Ja evidently did not expect a favourable reception of this proposal, and I informed him at snoe that I did not think there was the least shanne of ite being
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saceptable to the Hongkong authorities. Then tier wa in ne aunde a persona #no. It was simply that in the then of "antonese objections and somtimmel peli timal intri- guse sentring round the office, the Hongkong Dever ment could not yewis it is be controlled from Faking ary åonger. They wanted it removed to Minome territory and if the Chinese authori ti as wald not do that, the preferred to
alone it.
om
Mr. Ju said that he would quite understand, but that the nominos af the Minister of demeur: i ont ions for the
post, a Mr. C.M. Oben of the Railway Department, who ma unyposed to be far mrakly known to H.M. Legation, vou) A be saning to see me and that I ha better explain the
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