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Red: 30 MAY 05
FOREIGN OFFICE.
May 27th, 1905.
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You communicated to this Dupartment on the 23rd
instant a copy of a letter, dated April 21st last,
from the Hongkong branch of the China Association,
urging that the preliminaries in regard to the con-
struction of the Canton Kowloon railway should be
pressed forward with the greatest possible expedition
in view of various schemes which are believed to be
under consideration for building a line from Canton
to Whampoa.
As you are aware negotiations are at present in
progress batwoon the British and Chinese Corporation
and the Chinese Government for the conclusion of the
Final Agreement for the Canton Kowloon Railway, and
I am to inform you that is Majesty's Minister at Pe-
king has been instructed to make it clear to the
Chinese Government that His Majesty's Government ex-
e ionorary Secretary
to the China Association,
159, Cannon Street, E.C.
pect.
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