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ing agreement, as these must greatly depend on considerations with regard to which sufficient information was not yet available.
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I do not find that you have since recurred to the subject, and I presume that you accepted the view of the consulting Engineers. So long as Sir John Wolfe Barry were also recognised as Consulting Engineers for the Chinese section, it did not appear that the position would be prejudiced by delay in discussing the details of a working agreement, but the question has assumed a new aspect owing to the unwillingness of the Chinese administration to continue this arrangement. As you are aware, I have been in correspondence with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on this matter, and I was in hopes that His Majesty's Minister in Peking would have been able