C Confidential.
to E Saloo
Oct 31.1905
504
Sir:-
TED
FOR USE
EASTERN
88
O
IAL OFFICE
FOREICH OFFICE.
Noyember-306-1905.
39500
IRC 4 NOV 06
With reference to the letter from this Office of the
30th. ultimo,' I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne
to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a telegram
from His Majesty's Kinister at Feking relative to the ne-
gotiations respecting a loan for the construction of a
railway from Hankow to Centon.
I am to add that Lord Lansdowne is not aware of the
purport of the Viceroy's Despatch of September 9th. last,
to which reference is made in the telegram, but that an
enquiry on the subject has been addressed to Sir 1.Satom.
I am, ds,
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
F. A. Vilcies.