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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
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[November 20.]
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REGE 30 JAN 07
(No. 224.)
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 20.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
BURMAH-YÜNNAN Railway.
Peking, November 20, 1906,
Please see your telegrams Nos. 147 and 156 of the 16th and 31st August. Subsequent telegraphic correspondence with Burmah and Yünnan has, no doubt, been communicated to you by the Indian Government.
Would His Majesty's Government be prepared to accept an arrangement for the railway on the lines of the draft Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon line, a copy of which formed an inclosure in my despatch No. 421 of the 16th ultimo ?
Before I approach the Wai-wu Pu on the question of the reconnaissance, it would be advisable that I should be informed how far it is desired to hold the Chinese Government to their engagement of 1902. (See Sir Ernest Satow's despatch to the Foreign Office No. 75 of the 20th March of that year.)
I am of opinion that the Yunnan Viceroy should be kept to his word, and the Central Government informed of our intention to keep him to it.
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