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No. 25524.
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Foreign Office,
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I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter 26638/1907 of the
30th. ultimo in which you advance certain considera-
tions which deter the Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies from concurring in the proposal of Sir E. Grey to
communicate to the French Ambassador a Memorandum re-
garding French participation in the Hankow-Canton Rail-
way, the draft of which was enclosed in the letter from
this Department (22861) of the 25th. ultimo.
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In paragraph 3 of your letter you state that Lord
Elgin cannot see how an arrangement between two finan-
cial groups (which had been officially represented to
the Chinese Goverment as "internal and purely finan-
cial") can be held to impose on His Majesty's Govern-
ment the obligation to accept French participation of
the nature described by Monsieur Cambon.
he Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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