DOMESTIC.
These figures are extracted from the agreement between the French Government and the concessionaires who undertake to form the Company, annexed to the law of July 5th, 1901, copy of which was published in the "Journal Officiel" and enclosed in Your Lordship's despatch to this Legation No.183 of August 7th, 1901.
It is for the Government of Hongkong to decide whether in their opinion the financial position of the Colony would admit of their taking a leaf out of the French book for the purpose of constructing a much less costly and probably much more profitable line of railway.
I am sending a copy of this despatch to the officer Administering the Colony of Hongkong.
(Signed)
I have &c.,
Ernest Satow.
19 July 1904
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(Minutes.) as to evidence against will. I think the matter should be allowed to drop.
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