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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[January 13]-
SECTION 1.
Mr. C. S. Addis to Foreign Office.--(Received January 13.)
Dear Sir Francis.
Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation,
31, Lombard Street, London, January 13, 1910.
I ENCLOSE copy of my telegram to Hillier, in reply to the proposed substitution of a railway from Kai-feng-hi to Hsa-chou as the object of the Shanghae-Hangchow Ningpo Railway loan of 1,500,000%.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Mr. C. S. Addis to Mr. Hillier.
Yours truly,
C. S. ADDIS.
(Telegraphic.)
London, January 12, 1910. RE your wire of the 10th. We are in communication with the Foreign Office. British and Chinese Corporation are taking counsel's opinion regarding. It will be necessary also to come to an understanding with the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), since suggested railway is in their sphere.
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