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No.343. Confidential.
BRITISH LEGATION,
PEKING
PREC
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Miket 9 DEC 05
October 18th, 1905.
My Lord:-
With reference to my Despatch No.329 of
October 5th I have the honour to state that, in the
course of an interview with the Grand Secretary Na-
t'ung at his private residence on October 13th, I
drew His Excellency's attention to the unsatisfactory
attitude of the Chinese Government towards British
enterprises, especially railway and wining conues-
sions. I remarked that as we continued to maintain
our uniform policy of friendly assistance and consi-
deration for China's interests there was nothing in
our actions to account for this attitude, the general
hostility of which caused His Majesty's Government
and myself a little perplexity.
The Grand Secretary strongly disclaimed any
feeling of antagonism to British interests on the
part of the Chinese Government and proceeded to give
The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.
&c.,
&C.,
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