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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL,
[February 5,b
Bro 24 FEB 101
SECTION 2
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(No. 23.)
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Max Müller.
(Telegraphic.) R.
CHINCHOW-AIGUN Railway.
Foreign Office, February 5, 1910. You should remind Chinese Government of our view that Japanese participation was desired in Chinchow-Tsitsihar line, and add that since project has assumed its final form of a Chinchow-Aigun Railway Russia has expressed a desire to be consulted, and that we take the same view favourable to Russia being consulted that we did with regard to Japan. You should warn Chinese Government of impossibility of ignoring Russian and Japanese interests and arriving at a final arrangement without consulting
them.
You can inform your American colleague of this instruction. Repeat to Tokyo.
(Repeated to St. Petersburgh, No. 65, with the following addition: "You should inform M. Isvolsky of substance of this telegram.")
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