SECRET.
My Lord,
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GECE 28 JAN 07
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Government House,
Hongkong, 20th December, 1906.
In continuation of His Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan's Secret Despatch of the late November last dealing with the project to connect Canton with Whampoa by a railway, I have the honour to enclose for Your Lordship's information translations of extracts from the Wai San Yat Po Newspaper of the 5th November and the Sheung Po Newspaper of the 8th November, copies of which were forwarded to His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the 13th and 16th November respectively.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
Officer Administering the Government.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.
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800.
&C.