Incl.
Received
Ivete in ho
Sir E. Salow to the marquers.
to
F. O.,
Foreign Office
PEKING,
36011 363
July 18, 1905.
No.254.
Confidential
My Lord: -
With reference to my despatch, Very Confi-
dential, No.193 of June 8th and to my telegram No.114
of June 13th, I have the honour to state that after
as
the signing of the Peking Syndicate Agreements,
reported in my despatch No.251 of July 15th, I did
not consider it expedient, though privately informed
that Sheng kung-pao had in a large measure reassured
his position to approach the Wai Wu Pu again on the
subject of the Canton-Kowloon railway until I had
some clearer indications of the course which the
negotiations in regard to the Hankow-Canton railway loan (which will be reported in a separate despatch)
were likely to take.
On July 12th I instructed Mr. Campbell to
see Na tajen with the object of ascertaining the at-
titude of Sheng and of the Viceroy of Canton towards
the contents of my summary of the draft agreements
The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.,
&C.
&C.,
&c.,
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