Enclosure 2 in Sir J. Jordan's No. 382 of Sept: 19th, 1906.
Copy of Sir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.
Proclamation.
Your Highness:-
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131 NOV 3 1906!
September 17th, 1905.
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Reg'd 15 NOV 1906
With reference to the correspondence which has passed between Your Highness and this Legation since May last on the project of a railway from Canton to Whampoa, Mr. Carnegie informs me that at an interview on September 8th Your Highness stated that this was an old scheme dating from the plague epidemic of 1890, the object being to relieve the congestion of Canton city, and, by means of a railway, to favour residence at Whampoa. Your Highness declined to admit that this short line interfered in any way with the Canton-Kowloon Railway. Though Mr. Carnegie pointed out that according to his information the line as proposed must inevitably run along the route of the Canton-Kowloon Railway for a considerable distance, that in so far as it followed the
Imperial Highness,
PRINCE CH'ING
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