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Enclosure 1.
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Paraphrase of Telegram from the Governor to the
Secretary of State dated 3rd. April, WAY¡A!
1914.
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I have information of the signature at Peking of a
preliminary agreement granting a concession for the construction
of a railway from Yunnanfu to Poseh, Hanning and Pakhoi to a
French Syndicate:
The section of this Railway from Poseh to Manning would forestall a proposal made by Macdonald & Co., a British firm in
Hongkong, for the construction of a line to Possh, Nanning and
Wuchow from Saamo which would attract trade to longkong and to
the West River.
The French Concession should therefore be opposed. If it
is too late to do this, Macdonald & Co. are ready to change their
route so as to go straight from Poseh to Wuchow, and in the
interests of longkong trade this proposal should be strongly
supported.
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