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CHINA RAILWAYS.
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[April 19.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
de 16 JUN (1
SECTION 3.
[14238]
No. 1.
Sir A. Nicolson to Count Benckendorff.
My dear Benckendorff,
Foreign Office, April 19, 1911. SIR E. GREY is away and will not return here for a few days, and I therefore reply to your letter of the 17th enclosing a summary of a telegram from M. Nératof.
I think that the information which reached your Ministry for Foreign Affairs is
not quite correct. So far as our information goes, the facts are as follows:-
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A portion of the 10,000,000l. currency loan is to be devoted "to the promotion and extension of industrial enterprises in Manchuria," but we are not aware what is the nature of the proposed enterprises, nor do we know what will be exactly the amount allocated to them. We have heard that it will be between 2,000,000l. and 3,000,0001. We have no reason to believe that any railway projects are on the tapis, and our attitude towards the Chinchow-Aigun Railway remains unchanged.
I have, &c.
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