This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[9849]
No. 1.
[March 17.]
SECTION 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, March 17, 1910.
Mr. Meysey-Thompson,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, owing to diplomatic pressure, the Chinese Foreign Office has been obliged to abandon all further negotiations in the matter of the Chenchow-Aigun Railway; and whether, in view of the importance of the undertaking both to British trade and the maintenance of the principle of the open door, he will state what instructions have been given to the British representative to deal with the situation.
Answer.
His Majesty's Government have no information to the effect stated in the first paragraph of the question. His Majesty's representative at Peking is fully aware of their views on the situation, which are as stated in the answers given to the honourable Member for Hammersmith on the 28th February and the 4th March, to which I have nothing to add.
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