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guarantee that all ships should berth at the landing stage at the moment of their arrival. The Company also reserve to themselves the prior right of using their landing stages for their own ships before those of any other commercial concern.
Art. 7.-The Company will allow to the German authorities at any time the joint use of the Company's flagstaff for signalling purposes.
Art. 8.-In the event of the proprietary right of the Company to the three parcels of land indicated in Article 4 not being recognized as definitely valid by the competent Tribunals, the present Agreement shall be so far null and void, and the German Government shall enter again into full possession of the rights which were conceded to them by the Agreement of the 13th April, 1905.
Art. 9. The present Agreement comes into force on the payment to the German Garrison Administration at Tien-tsin of the sum of 2,500 dollars mentioned in Article 3.
Art. 10.-This Agreement is done in duplicate in the German language. Each party receives a copy.
Done in Peking, the 15th May, 1907.
And at Tien-tsin, the 24th May, 1907.
Agent
(Signed)
(Signed)
GRAF REX.
W. S. NATHAN,
and General Manager, Chinese Engineering
and Mining Company, Limited.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
SHINA
HINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
[July 25.]
SECTION 1.
(No. 89.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Foreign Office, July 25, 1907. TIEN-TSIN-YANG-TSZE Railway. Please refer to your telegram No. 140 of
the 14th instant.
The Syndicates agree in principle to the Chinese offer, but they reserve all rights under the preliminary Agreement.
During Bland's absence Cordes is the agent of the Chinese Central Railways for the Tien-tsin-Yang-taze negotiations.
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