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DOL
REICH
OFFICE
C.0.
FOREIGN OFFICE, 31561
October
1910.
233
(36170/10)
Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir E.Grey to acknowledge
Secretary
the receipt of your letter, 30041/1910 of the 6th instant
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respecting the proposed railway and customs agreements
between China and Hong Kong.
Sir E. Grey notes that Sir John Jordan and Sir
Frederick Lugard agreed, at the informal conference held
on the 2nd instant, that while in the question of the
agreement as to the Canton Kowloon Railway the principle
of joint management of the two sections of the Railway
should be pressed upon the Chinese Goverment, it would
be a mistake to offer as a counter advantage to the
Chinese the proposed Customs Agreement and that the
Earl of Crewe has consequently informed the Acting
Governor of Hong Kong that the question of the Customs
Agreement must not for the present be brought into the
railway negotiations.
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The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
With
w.