Confidential.
FOREIGN OFFICE, February 8th, 1906.
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Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo on the subject of a meeting between your Representative and the Viceroy of Canton’s Deputies with regard to the Canton-Kowloon Railway and to inform you that a telegram has been addressed to His Majesty’s Minister at Peking enquiring the present state of the negotiations on the subject.
At the same time I am to state for the information of the British and Chinese Corporation that on November 27th last the Governor of Hongkong told the Viceroy’s Secretary that His Majesty’s Government were bound to support the Corporation in obtaining the fulfilment of the Agreement in regard to the Railway and that if there were any details in it which did not meet with the Viceroy’s approval, he should negotiate with the Corporation for their modification.
The Chairman, British and Chinese Corporation, 3, Lombard Street, London, E.C.