Secret.
PRINTED FOR USE,
EASTERN.
No.88
COLONIAL
OFFICE
OF
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5
Zapin
FOREIGN OFFICE.
August 10th, 1905.
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2. Phipps N°86.com
ily 29. 1905
pugnet. 2. 1995.
Sir :-
I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit
herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister
at Brussels reporting on a recent interview between the King
of the Belgians and Mr Pierpoint Morganwith regard to the inter
fion
tion of the Chinese Government to obtain a retrocession of
the Canton-llankow Railway Concession by the purchase of the
American shares in the Concession.
Sir C.Phipps has anticipated in this despatch the en-
quiry addressed to him in Lord Lansdowne ́s despatch No.65 Very :
Secret of the 2nd instant copy of which is also enclosed.
I am,
Si
Your most obedient,
humble Servant.
he under Secretary of State
Colonial office.
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