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Sir:-
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3, LOMBARD (STREET)) 08
LONDON, E. C.
October 8th. 1908.
Canton-Kowloon Railway.
Consulting Engineers and Engineer-in-Chief.
Mr. Bland, our Representative in China, informs us
that at the interview which you were so good as to ac-
cord to him recently when he submitted the text of a
telegram the Corporation had received from its Agents
in Hongkong (copy for reference annexed here to) and the
text of the reply which he suggested the Board should
make, it was arranged we were to forward to you a copy
of the reply as soon as authorised by the Board and
despatched.
Accordingly we beg leave to inform you that we
have telegraphed to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Com-
pany, Hongkong, to-day as follows:-
ir Francis Campbell, K.C.M.G.,
Foreign Office, S.W.
"Referring