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come in the proportions will appointy
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No. 8.
CONIAL OFFICE
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FOREIGN OFFICE,
November 20, 1905.
With reference to previous correspondence res-
pecting the Hankow-Canton Railway Concession, I am
directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to state for
the information of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, that on the 5th instant the French Embassy
suggested that the understanding in regard to Anglo-
French financial cooperation in China should be ex-
tended to the Hankow-Canton iine.
The question would, it was believed, be brought
up at the General Meeting of the Chinese Central
Railways Limited, which was to take place on the
following day, and as the Company represent the Anglo-
French financial combination in the matter of Chi-
nese railways, they would be in a favourable posi-
tion to take up the Hankow-Canton railway business.
This view was shared by the French and by the
majority
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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