CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928 — Page 169

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the seal of his office to the Canton Government.

A possible alternative course, to which the Hongkong

Government will raise no objection, would be that the

control of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hongkong

should be handed over by your Department to the Eastern

Extension Telegraph Company in whose building the Office

is situated.

The settlement of this matter is long overdue and

& decision will have to be taken as soon as I return to

Hongkong in the early days of next month.

I am, etc.,

(Signed) C. Clementi.