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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[March 9.]
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SECTION 1
Brc 14 APR 10
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No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, March 11, 1910.
Sir William Bull,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of certain clauses in the Anglo-Japanese treaty of alliance, His Majesty's Govern- ment will ask Japan to define the limits of her interests in Manchuria, and more especially to explain on what ground she bases her demand for so large a measure of participation in the Chinehow-Aigun Railway, which is, in Chinese opinion, so far removed from the South Manchurian Railway as to prohibit any objections on the plea of competition.
Answer by Mr. McKinnon Wood (for Sir E. Grey).
I do not see that there is anything in the question to modify the answer given to the honourable member on the 28th February, and I can only refer him to that answer, and especially to the first two paragraphs of it, in view of which there is no object in pursuing the course advocated in the question, even if it were on other grounds reasonable.
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