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(No. 63. Confidential.)
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Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
CANTON-HANKOW Railway Loan.
Foreign Office, April 1, 1909.
My telegram No. 62 of to-day's date. Instructions have been sent to His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin to mention privately and confidentially the promise which Chang gave us in 1905, and to state that while we wish to see an Agreement between the three groups and do not desire to interfere with German enterprise, we should, in the case of this particular line, feel obliged to protest to the Chinese authorities that the spirit of the 1905 Agreement would be violated by its being given to others.
The suggestion has been made to Mr. Addis that, at the meeting to be held on the 2nd, he might explain that in the event of the Chinese refusing to modify the Preliminary Agreement, and with a view to persuading them to do so, we should act thus, and that the step would therefore be taken as much in German as in British interests.
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