[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
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1798
REG 17 JAN 08, [November 1:]
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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received November 11.)
(No. 191.)
Peking, November 10, 1907. (Telegraphic.) P.
CHINA-JAPAN telegraphis. Please see my telegram No. 189 of the 8th instant. The Foreign Adviser of Chinese Telegraph Administration communicated to the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires on the 8th instant a proposed Agreement of which the following is a basis:-
1. Japan to close all its telegraph stations in Manchuria which are situated outside the railway territory.
2. Japan is expected to make an Agreement for the working of the railway telegraphs in Manchuria. This Agreement to be on the same lines as that respecting the Chinese Eastern Railway telegraphs recently concluded with Russia.
3. Japan to consent to the 7 miles of the Chefoo end of the proposed cable between Cheloo and Dalny being the property of China, who will work it from Chefoo, except for terminal Chefoo-Japanese Government traffic and terminal Chefoo-Liaotung- Japanese private traffic in Kana, which traffic shall be sent at stipulated times each day from the Chefoo-Japanese Post Office.
4. Private terminal Japanese-Chinese traffic may pass over the Chefoo-Dalny-- Sasebo cable only, provided the assent of the Great Northern Company to such an arrangement be given.
I have repeated this telegram to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tôkiô.
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