FIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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... 15 JUN 08
Government House,
Hongkong, 14th. May, 1908.
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I received by last mail Confidenti -
-al Foreign Office Prints Nos. 6,018 of February 22nd.,
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and 6,670 of February 25th. (Colonial Office receipt stamp
of March 25th.) relative to the proposals of the French
Syndicate in reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway. Both
are telegraphie and the former refers to a detailed
Despatch sent by mail to His Majesty's Minister, Peking.
This explanatory Despatch has not been sent to me.
2.
The last previous date of any
paper on this subject was September 17th., 1907, and with
reference to the fragmentary nature of the papers which
have been sent to me, on this matter in which this Colony
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is so vitally interested I have already had the honour to
address Your Lordship in a separate Despatch of even date.
3.
It would appear from such papers
unable
as are in my possession that for reasons which I am wholly IGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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