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IREC
RES 3 MAR 08
Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J. Jordan,
No.39, dated February 22nd, 1908.
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Canton Hankow Railway. Your telegrams Nos.41 and 45 of February 15th and 19th.
The following proposals of the French Syndicate, which, I understand, emanate from the French Foreign Office, have been communicated to me by Mr. Addis.
Concession for Hankow-Canton Railway to be negotiated and controlled by British and Chinese Corporation; but it is also proposed that the Concession should include the whole line from Peking to Canton, and that the French group should be confirmed in possession of the line from Peking to Hankow, as presumably it is feared that right of repurchase may be exercised by the Chinese. It is further proposed, as this arrangement would be so much in favour of the Corporation, that the English group should bind themselves to support French negotiations to obtain contracts for:
(1) an extension of the Yunnan Railway to Szechuen.
(2)