This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[September 8.]
SECTION 1.
101
Sir,
Foreign Office to China Association.
Foreign Office, September 5, 1907. WITH reference to your letter of the 25th June last, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state, for the information of the China Association, that a despatch has been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the rate of freight charges levied by the Japanese railway authorities from Dalny into Manchuria.
Sir J. Jordan has been informed by His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden that it has been announced by the Japanese railway authorities that from the 1st July last a new scale of freight charges would come into force all along the Japanese railway with no preferential rate in favour of Dalny. The scale, a high one, was to be 8 sen per ton per mile for first class goods; 6 sen for second class goods, which include beans and their products; and 5 sen for third class goods. These rates are reported by His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden to be much higher than those of the Chinese Northern Railways, which are now carrying beans for 2 cents per ton
I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
per mile.
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