104277
Confidential.
Encl. in 320
C.O.
23285
Reco
28 JUN 06
458
1908.
FOR BRITISH AND CHINESE CORPORATION,
June //
Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant in regard to a telegram from your Representative in Peking reporting that the Chinese Government intend to appoint a negotiator in the matter of the Canton Kowloon Railway but not in the case of the Cuchow-Foochow line. Acquiescence in the delay in appointing negotiators appears to Mr. Bland to be likely to prejudice the position of the Corporation.
I am to state for the confidential information of the Corporation that a telegram was received on the 30th ult. from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking to the effect that on pressing the Wai-wu-pu for the appointment of negotiators for these railways he had been informed on the previous day...
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To the Chairman,
British and Chinese Corporation, Limited,
22, Abchurch Lane,
E.C.