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Hongkong Government.
In consequence of pressure from the Wai Wu Pu the Viceroy now appeared to abandon his attitude of flat rejection. On January 24th the Governor of Hongkong telegraphed that the Viceroy had asked for the English and Chinese texts of the Northern Railways Loan Agreement of 1898, and had stated that if he found it satisfactory he intended to open negotiations for the Canton-Kowloon Railway on the lines of that agreement. In reply I suggested that if we gave the text it might be inferred that we were not altogether averse to the idea of making an agreement on those lines, and recommended standing out for negotiation on the basis of the draft agreements. If in the course of discussion, I said, the Chinese delegate brought up the proposal the British negotiator might examine it, but without showing any eagerness to accept it in place of the Corporation's draft.
Sir Matthew Nathan telegraphed on January 26th that