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obtain in China. This Agreement to include the lankow- Canton Railway.
To enable this to be done, the British Group agrees to waive the preference on material secured to them by the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1905.
In return for participation the German Group agrees to withdraw their offer to the Chinese and to adhere along with the Anglo-French Group to Canton-Kowloon terms of control as a minimum.
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Appointment of Engineer to be approved by the lenders. It is understood that Prince and Germany would not object to the appointment of a British Engineer in the case of the Hankow Canton Railway. It is suggested that similar concessions might be made in future to other groups where their intereste can be show to predominate.
Commission to be sured between the three Groups us may be hereafter arranged.
The British preference having been abandoned an endeavour would be made to substitute a preference to the "lendora", the Chinese retaining, within these limits, the right to purchase railway material in the open market.
London.
26th. February 1909.