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In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No. 23598,
and address-
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London,
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Received 13 JUL 1906.
FOREIGN OFFICE
July 17, 1906.
Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant respecting the negotiations for the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
With regard to your statement in the above-mentioned letter that the Chinese authorities were pressing forward a scheme for the construction of a railway to Swatow and Amoy, I am to inform you that in reply to enquiries His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking reports that he has received no official answer from the Chinese Government to the representations mentioned in your letter as regards the projected Whampoa line, but that Tang Shao-Yi had stated privately that the Wai-wu-pu knew nothing officially of this project.
Sir Edward Grey informed Mr. Carnegie in reply that Tang's statement as to there being no official information...
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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