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(No. 163.) (Telegraphic.)
The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow (Peking).
Foreign Office, October 29, 1905, 11 A.M. YOUR telegram No. 191 [of the 27th instant: Hankow-Canton Railway]. Your reply to Consul Fraser approved.
It would appear that Sheng's promise, in addition to being anauthorized, became null and void on the conclusion of the final Agreement with the Americans in July
1900.