experts to get hearly
in tim draghi
Working for
but it
Clnet Seely
ale
that in funt forand
is food footing the in
them you really exspect
Pr. 1915
10837.
I had been through there pafee before
consulting Me Fis des
다
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& I entirely
afree with his view. If the leading
д
this money by Hong Kong advantage
Coca weve
with be
we ought not to be or tale the Color bankrupt, Itzecons
to me that we
diplomatic cape
a
have
rey strong baged on
on the preli
afseement (effender to Easter 88) for
the Therese Gost linking of
the two lines and we
insisting
it as stoply
Article 4 of
Avo
ought to pien
ought possible
may
pp.163 336 of
C. 9131.
the preliminary asserment
is bound to produce
Cortaraly
be altered.
HB z
1915
a
deadlock & must
see appendix to Eastern 88.
Entirely agree with Mr. Fiddes. To effect the junction with the brunk line Northward,
is plainly a vital interest of Hongkong, and if we enn secure this result by lending another £₤£40,000 we
clearly ought to do it. J
Proceed gennetty
suggests,
as all. Roteiron
CC Legends
a iti cimpout much ver. Frida de Cork
Agrar (1390), Wt, 20024-26, 6000, 11/08, A, & E, W, (8327).
1081-7. 6000. 4,09.
21.57
see p. 325 of
0.9131.
TETORANDUM.
45 /
In his confidential despatch of the 11th of
Merch, Sir F. Lugard asks for diplomatic assistance
at Pekin, with a view to facilitating the negotiation
of the working: Agreement, though he does not wish to
have it referred to. His grounds are that the chang
and Kowloon Canton Railway Loan agreements were
negotiated with the help of the Minister.
It may
be as well to state the history of the ria ber.
1. On the 14th of April 1898 the American
China Development Company signed an agreement with the
Chinese Minister to the United States of America for
the building of a line from Canton to Hankow. And
on the 28th of March 1899 a preliminary ag'eonent was signed between the Director of Railways (Sheng) and the Agents (Jardine Matheson & Compan) of the British and Chinese Corporation, for the construction of a
line from Canton to Kowloon, to be worked in conjunc-
tion with the Canton Hankow line. It would appear from a draft agreement between the American Company and the British and Chinese Corporation that before the preliminary agreement was si ned the two Companies had nearly come to terms for a combination to run the
two Railways.
2. The British and Chinese Corporation mode no
further move in the matter, and we appear to have heard nothing about it till the end of 1903, when I'r. May who was then the Officer Administoring the Govern-
ment