Confidential
DRAFT.
Hong Kong
F.O./5732.
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The Under Secretary of State
Mr.
Foreign Office.
MINUTE. April
Sir Nathan 15
Mr. Antrobus.
Mr. Cox,
Mr. Lucas.
Mr. Graham,
15
Sir M. Ommanney.
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The Duke of Marlborough.
Mr. Lyttelton.
will send on later important papers relating to the
proposed Hongkong-
Canton Railway
Sir,
FOR USE IN
COLONIAL
OFFICE
Apr 22 1904
I am directed by Mr. Secretary
Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 16th of February, and with regard to its first two paragraphs dealing with
the Han Kow-Canton railway, to transmit for
such action as may appear fit to the Marquess
of Lansdowne copies of further despatches and
of a telegram from the Officer Administering
the Government of Hong Kong, showing the progress that is being made in the transfer of
this undertaking from American management
to Belgian direction in Russian and French
(P. Jamallégetter,
opposed to guarantee
into
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interests.
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