CO129-518-1 Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong 28-6-1929 - 3-1-1930 — Page 24

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other arrangements in respect of the Chinese Telegraph

Office in the colony. They prefer not to appear in the

matter but have made the suggestion that the Canton

authorities should be induced to make an official demand

for the removal of the office. The Cantonese while anxious

to obtain control of the Canton-Hong kong line would

however prefer that they should be put in charge of the

Hong Kong office rather than that the terminal station

should be removed to Cantonese territory.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

1st October, 1927.