[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[41686]
(No. 185.)
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J, Jordan.
[November 17.]
SECTION 1.
(Telegraphic.) P.
Foreign Office, November 17, 1909. HUKUANG loan. Please see your telegram No. 175 of the 29th October.
I hear from the American Ambassador that the German Government would accept, subject to some trifling conditions, the settlement suggested by Mr. Straight. The American Government are willing to agree to this, and hope that His Majesty's Government will no longer defer their sanction of the signature of the agreement.
I told his Excellency that, as the arrangement proposed would give 1,000 kilom. of Szechuan line to Anglo-French group without detracting from our share in the Hankow-Canton line, we saw no ground for objection.
I told him, however, that his information did not exactly correspond to the German views on the subject embodied in a memorandum of the 5th instant which we had received from the German Embassy.
[2486 r-
-1]
214
se