(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government)
C.O. 17226
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No. 85.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
HANKOW-CANTON Railway Loan.
REG 21 MAY 09,
[May 3.]
386
SECTION 1.
Foreign Office, May 3, 1909,
I quite concur in the reply sent to Mr. Hillier on the 1st instant as reported in your telegram No. 82 of that date, and I am very glad that a satisfactory settlement of the question is now not impossible.
The Germans cannot be left in exclusive possession of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, such an abandonment of the line would be out of the question.
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