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1 can only repeat the request of Mr. Carnegie that your Highness should request the Superintendent of Southern Trade and the Shanghae Taotai to refrain from establishing a Chinese trade mart or municipality on land adjoining the foreign Settlement at Shanghae.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
I avail, &c.
(Signed)
J. N. JORDAN
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Memorandum.
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THE question of Settlement extension would not be an acute one were it not for the operations of a certain section of the Chinese "student" class, who are at present aiming at municipal control of the large district north of the boundary, already largely foreign owned.
The matter has already been summarized in a Memorandum prepared at the request of Sir Pelham Warren, and the position taken up by the British Legation, reported in the local native press, has caused the very greatest satisfaction.
For the present no extension is required, but, while it is advisable that the Chinese Government should understand that if the foreign population continues to expand, extension will be necessary, the present attempts to thwart sanitary measures and road making on the outskirts must cease.
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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received November 3.) (No. 382.)
Peking, September 19, 1906.
Sir,
WITH reference to Mr. Carnegie's despatch of the 9th September, reporting the result of an interview with Prince Ching on the subject of the Whampoa Railway project, I have the honour to inclose, for your information, copies of a despatch dated the 21st August received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, and of a note which I addressed to Prince Ching on the 17th September.
The official Proclamation issued by the Viceroy of Canton, a translation of which is inclosed in Mr. Mansfield's despatch, disposes of Prince Ching's disingenuous explanation of the nature of the scheme, and places it beyond doubt that the trace of the proposed Canton-Amoy Railway must run for a considerable distance along the route of the Canton-Kowloon line.
I have requested His Highness either to move the Viceroy of Canton to abandon the project we object to or to accord me an interview at an early date for the purpose of stating the views of His Majesty's Government.
I have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
(No. 40.) Sir,
Consul-General Mansfield to Mr. Carnegie.
Canton, August 21, 1906.
REFERRING to my telegram No. 24 of the 17th instant, I have now the honour to forward copy and translation of a Proclamation by the Viceroy, from which it appears that the Canton-Amoy Railway has been decided on, at any rate as far as the section from Canton to Whampoa is concerned.
As to the capital required, I have been unable to obtain any accurate information. A Chinese named Chang Chien-hsun, who made money in the Straits, has, it is said, induced his countrymen there to subscribe 2,000,000 dollars. The line has been surveyed at Chang's expense, and two foreigners have been engaged, one a Dane and the other an Englishman.
In spite of careful inquiries, I have found extraordinary difficulty in obtaining any reliable information about the projected line, its capital, or its management. From the Viceroy's Proclamation it would appear to be under official auspices.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
R. W. MANSFIELD.
(Translation.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Proclamation by the Viceroy and Chang Chien-hsun.
IN view of the importance of railway extension to commercial development, the sanction of the Board of Commerce has been obtained for the formation of a Company to undertake the construction of a line from Canton to Amoy. The first section of this line, from Chuan Lang K'ou outside the East Gate of Canton to Lu Chia Wei in Whampoa, is 13 miles in length. It then passes through Tseng Cheng, Shih Lung Chen in Tung Kuan, Po Lo, Kuei Shan, Hai Teng, and Lu Feng in Hui Chou, Hui Lai, P'ing Ning, and Chia Yang districts in Ch'ao Chou, branching off to outside the city of Ch'ao...
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