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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL,
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[June 15.]
RECO
SECTION 2.
Rro? 2 JUL 09)
No. 1.
[22549]
(No. 111.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
Foreign Office, June 15, 1909, A GLASGOW firm who is interested in the matter has made enquiries as to contracts for the Shanghae-Ningpo Railway. The "Times" correspondent at Shanghae stated, in a telegram dated the 26th ultimo, that the Provincial Railway Bureau had limited competition to German manufacturers, when publicly advertising for tenders for locomotives for the above-mentioned railway.
Please report as to the truth of this statement.
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