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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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C.O.
5944
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[January 27t
SECTION 1.
(REG: 18 FEE 09
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.
Foreign Office, January 27, 1909. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 31st October, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking with regard to the telegraph line from the Chinese border across the leased territory to Kowloon, which has hitherto been worked by the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration.*
Sir E. Grey concurs in the views expressed in the two final paragraphs of the despatch, and will be glad to be favoured in due course with the Earl of Crewe's observations thereon.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Sir J. Jordan, No. 575, December 21, 1908,
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