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Minutes of the Meeting to discuss the
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question of the Joint Working Agreement between British and Chinese Authorities on the Kowloon Canton Railway. (7.6.10.)
Present:-
His Excellency Mr.Wei Han, Mr. C. Clementi,
Mr. E. S. Lindsey.
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Mr. Wei Han and his Secretary Mr. Kwok Fung-
-1 had a preliminary discussion of the Working Agreement with Mr. Lindsey and myself today in the Council Chamber at 11 a.m.
I told Mr. Wei Han that Mr. Lindsey and I were authorised to negotiate and conclude with him a Working Agreement for the two Sections of the Kowloon Canton Railway. He replied that he was similarly authorized by his Government,
We then told him that there were 3 general
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(we wished settled in the first instance as upon them the whole Working Agreement depended, viz.:- the question of joint management, the question of connection with the Hankow- -Canton line and the division of profits. We then communicated to him the gist of (a) paragraphs 2 - 7 and 26: (b) paragraph 28 and (c) paragraph 17 sqq. of the draft Working Agreement, Mr. Wei, then, said that he must refer these general principles to Peking and asked for leave to do so by telegram, saying that, although he was authorized to conclude the agreement, it was necessary for him to submit matters of principle to Peking for approval in the first instance. He added that he considered our proposals under these three heads very fair and reasonable, and that from a business point of view he had no objection to make to them. I gathered that he would recommend them for favourable consideration to Paking. He was entirely in favour of connect- -ion with the Hankow line being made at an early date. The only question he asked was whether we should be prepared to consider the possibility of managing the two sections separately. To this we replied that we hoped it would be unnecessary for us to discuss such a possibility, as, after much consideration, we
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