The Ministry of Communications has addressed an urgent despatch to the Ministry of Foreign Intercourse, informing the latter that the laying of a submarine cable by " Japanese cable-ship near the entrance of Woosung is in accordance with the Nagasaki—Shanghai Cable Agreement, which provides for the pro-elongation of the cable from Nagasaki as far a Shanghai; and requesting a definite reply as to whether or not the work of cable-laying should be temporarily stopped, now that the German Minister has lodged a protest,
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