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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government*
CHINA RAILWAYS.
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[November 112 DEC 09
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No 3.) Sir,
No. 1.
SECTION 1.
Consul Carlisle to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 11.)
Hanoi, October 2, 1909. IN my despatch No. 1 of the 10th July last, I stated that the local representative of the Yunnan Railway Company had promised the merchants here that he would endeavour to obtain from his directors permission to make a further reduction on the freights of manufactured goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin. This was intended to be in compensation for the rebates granted to the large customers of the railway, sending at least 500 tons per half-year, who are mostly Chinese.
I have now the honour to inform you that the management of the company in Paris have accorded this additional preference, which has been published and is already in force. The reduction of freight on manufactured goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin (such as cotton yarns from the Tonquin mills) conveyed from Haiphong to Mongtze is now 10 dollars per ton instead of 5 dollars as formerly, and is equivalent to a preference of about 20 per cent, on the ordinary tariff.
This reduction only given when goods are sont by truck-loads of at least 5 tons. The table which I have the honour to enclose should now be substituted for the first of the tables accompanying my despatch No. 2, Commercial, of the 20th May last.
I have, &c.
T. FF. CARLISLE.
Inclosure in No. 1.
· Statement of Goods Tariff on Yünnan Railway.
By truck-load of 5 tons with the Company's liability limited to 100 dollars per ton.
Goods of French or Indo-Chinese
origin.
Goods of every description.
Manufactured products.
Per tou.
Per ton.
Dol, c.
Dol. c.
Groceries, pro- visions, preserves, liquors, &c.
Per ton.
Dol. c.
From Haiphong to Mongize
50 40
40 40
36 40
Amichou
53 80
43 40
30.80
Hanci Mongtze
11
47 40
37 40
33 40
71
Amichou
50 80
40. 40
36 80
'T'in.
Per ton.
Dol. c.
From Mongtze to Haiphong
40 40
NOTE-If the Company's liability only extends to that part of the journey which Bes through Tonquin and not to Yunnan, these rates are 40 c. per ton less.
The rates given above are at present subject to a surtax of 10 per cent. In the above table Mongtze refers to the Pi-che-tchai station for that town.
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