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Inclo. No. 1 in Mr. Carne fie's No. 370 of September 5 1906.
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Minutes of Meeting held at the Waiwupu on Thursday,
23rd August at 3 p.m.
Present:
Their Excellencies Na-t'ung and T'ang Shao-yi,
representing the Wai Wu Pu.
Kung Tao tai and Mr. Hu,
representing H.E. the Viceroy of Canton.
Messrs. Chu Pao-fay and En Hou
Secretaries to the Wai Wu Pu; and
Mr. J.O.P. Bland
representing the British and Chinese Corporation, Ltd.
It was agreed that the negotiations should be
conducted in Chinese. Mr. Bland requested that it be noted
that the Corporation, recognising the special nature of the
case due to the railway being partly in Chinese and partly
in British territory, was prepared to agree to certain
modifications of the "anking railway Agreement and to meet,
as far as possible, the views of H.E. the Viceroy of Canton
and of the Chinese Government, but that it should be clearly
understood and recorded that such modifications would not
constitute precedents affecting the rights and interests
of the Corporation under other agreements. The concession
as originally granted by the Chinese Government gave the
right of financing and constructing this railway under
conditions not less favourable than those of the Luhan line,
but