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In continuation of the Secret Despatch which
I addressed to Mr. Lyttelton on the 5th. April, 1905 on the
subject of a Chinese project to connect Canton with Whampoa by a
Railway, and with reference to Sir Ernest Sator's telegram to the
Marquess of Lansdowne dated the 18th. of that month on the same
subject of which telegram a copy was sent to me in Mr. Lyttelton's
Secret Despatch of the 11th. May, 1905 have the honour to
transmit for Your Lordship's information a copy of a Despatch
which I have this day addressed to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires
at Peking, and of the translations of newspaper articles it en-
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-closed. l also enclose a map on which I have approximately
indicated the routes that have been proposed for the Canton-
Kowloon and Canton-Whampoa-Amoy kailways.
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I have the honour to be,
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My Lord!
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
Mbathan
Governor,&c..
THE BARL OF BLGIN, K.G.,
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