368
C.O.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[1796]
No. 1.
355
[January 17.]
26 APR 08
SECTION 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 17.)
(No. 14.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Peking, January 17, 1908. IN reply to your telegram of yesterday's date, I have the honour to inform that the Chinese wish to leave the matter in abeyance until after the New Year holidays, which commence in a few days, and until other outstanding questions with us have been settled. Pauling's agent is absent. The matter remains therefore in statu quo, but I venture to suggest that if I were authorized in the meantime to speak to the Japanese Minister on the subject it might help to clear the situation.
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