In any further communica
tion on this subject, please quote
No. 14415/09.
and address -
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
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FOREIGN OFFICE
Pro 26 APR 09
April
1909.
Apt. Me
Cope.
Sir:-
I have laid before the Secretary of State for
-Gou
Foreign Affairs your letter, 12913, of the 16th instant
enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Governor of
Hongkong protesting against the repudiation of the
undertaking given by the Viceroy of Wuchang to His
Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow in 1905 regarding
the Canton-Hankow Railway.
In this connection I am to enclose, for the in-
formation of the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
copies of correspondence which has passed between this
Department and the Chinese Minister upon the subject,
and to call your attention to the recent telegrans
from and to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, of which
paraphrases have been sent you, from which it will be
seen that a strong protest has also been addressed by
Sir J. Jordan to the Chinese Government against what
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The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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