In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No. 20378.
and address-
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
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FOREIGN OFFICE 08 JUN 29
June 29th, 1908.
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Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 19224/1908 of the
12th instant forwarding correspondence with the Governor of Hongkong respecting the Canton-Hankow Railway.
I am to transmit to you, to be laid before the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch which has since been received from His Majesty's
Minister at Peking on the subject.
I am to suggest that Sir F. Lugard's attention
should be invited to this despatch and to the papers
communicated to this Department by Mr. Addis of the
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on February 25th, and already
sent to you in print in the usual course, which embody
the agreement concluded at that time between the English
and French syndicates. It will then be clear to
him that the present deadlock is not caused by any
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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