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CHINA RAILWAYS.
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CONFIDENTIAL.
[April 12.]
SECTION 2.
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No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, April 12, 1910.
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Mr. Arbuthnot,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the agree- ment of 1899 between Great Britain and Russia, whereby the former undertook not to seek railway concessions north of the Great Wall of China, was a formal agreement or merely an understanding based on certain letters; and whether such agreement or letters have been published; and, if so, when aud where.
Answer.
The 1899 agreement was a formal agreement effected by an exchange of notes between His Majesty's Government and the Russian Government. It was published the same year as a Parliamentary Paper, No. 11, Treaty Series.
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