Cable Cos.
Nanking, Dee, 18, Strongly-worded dispatches have! been sent by the International Communications Committee of the Min: istry of Communications to the three foreign cable Companies, the Great Northern, Eastern Extension and Commercial Pacific, regarding the evasive attitude of the companies in the negotiations relative to the various cable contracts.
The communication deplores the fact that although a number of conferences had already been held, no result has so far. been achieved, Should the foreign Companies again fail to comply with the Chinese re-terminated upon expiration on~December 31 and all special privileges which the foreign Companies have heretofore enjoyed under these contreets will likewise abolished as from that date—Kuo Min,
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