No reply has been received from the Chinese Foreign Office to the above communication, although it has intimated to our Minister that it would submit a detailed plan for the carrying out of the proposed work.
Considering, however, that the abrogation of these provisions of the Final Protocol of Peking relating to the conservancy of the Whangpoo can only be brought about by the unanimous agreement thereto of the Signatory Powers, my Government is of opinion that the universally recognized urgency of the work makes an early agreement among the interested Powers imperatively necessary, and that such desired agreement can be more promptly reached by direct submission of our views to the interested Powers than through the Diplomatic Representatives at Peking.
I am therefore instructed, in bringing the matter to the attention of your Lordship, to urge your serious consideration of the foregoing views of my Government, and to express its hope that, should the proposals submitted by the Chinese Government to the Signatory Powers in June last meet with the general approval of His Majesty's Government, the British Minister at Peking may be instructed accordingly in order that this important undertaking may be promptly begun to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, and to the benefit of the vast commercial interests which it so vitally affects.
I have, &c. (Signed)
JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
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