Name and Date.
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DESCRIPTION OF ENCLOSURE.
Sir E. Satow, No. 160, April 9, 1906
Habjoat.
Hankow-Canton Railway.
Enclosure in No. 257.
Foreign Office,
June 8, 1906.
Enclosure in No. 255. TELEGRAM to Mr. CARNEGIE, Peking.
(Sent 4.30 p.m., June 8, 1906.)
No. 112. Your telegram, No. 116 [of May 30. Canton-Kowloon and Soochow- Ningpo Railways.]
Bland telegraphs to British and Chinese Corporation that Chinese Government intend to appoint negotiator Canton-Kowloon Railway, but not for Soochow-Ningpo line. He considers acquiescence in further delay dangerous.
We have given Corporation substance, confidentially, of your telegram and said that Prince Ching's view does not appear unreasonable and that unless you con- sider advisable to press for immediate appointment of negotiator for Soochow line, we think it better to deal with Kowloon first, and leave Chinese Government time. to persuade Chekiang Board.
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SIR,
No. 256.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN. [Answered by No. 275.]
(Confidential.)
Downing Street, June 8, 1906. WITH reference to your confidential despatch of January 12th,† I have the honour to forward to you the enclosed copies of two letters from Sir J. Wolfe Barry and Partners with regard to the reclamation required for the Kowloon ter- minus of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
2. I should be glad if you would forward, for the information of the Con- sulting Engineers any larger scale plans that may exist of Hunghom Bay.
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No. 257.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. .
(Received June 11, 1906.)
THE Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments
to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.
Foreign Office,
June 11, 1906.
(No. 160.)
SIR,
Peking, April 9, 1906. WITH reference to my despatch, No. 316, of the 22nd of September last, I have the honour to forward herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, enclosing an extract from the Memorial of the Viceroy of the Hukuang Provinces, as published in the "Universal Gazette," on his redemption last autumn of the China Development Company's concession for the construction of the Canton-Hankow railway.
I have, &c.,
ERNEST SATOW.
Canton-Hankow Railway Resumption Loan-Forwards extract from Viceroy Chang's Memorial on.
SIR,
(No. 12.)
Mr. Consul-General FRASER to Sir E. Satow.
(Received April 5, 1906.)
British Consulate-General, Hankow, March 22, 1906. I HAVE the honour to forward in Chinese, with an English translation, an extract from the Viceroy Chang's Memorial on his redemption last autumn of the China Development Company's concession for the construction of the Canton-Han- kow railway, as published in the "Universal Gazette" of the 15th instant.
This account of the negotiations is far from agreeing with the facts established in our telegraphic correspondence, these facts being probably garbled to make a better defence against the attacks which have been made on him for borrowing from England to pay off America, instead of freeing the enterprise from all foreign shackles.
His Excellency's omissions seem to me serious. Thus, besides keeping silence as to the Wai Wu Pu's communication to you of the Decree approving the loan, he implies that the loan was absolutely unconditional.
His Excellency's despatch of 9th September, which was enclosed in my despatch, No. 45, of the following day, can be construed to make the privileges given us depen- dent on China's having to borrow for the construction of the railways mentioned. I think that His Excellency at the time thought such borrowing would be indispen- sable. Now that the opposition to foreign loans has become so virulent, he hastens to disclaim any such intention, and he has left unanswered my suggestion, in accord- ance with your telegram, No. 1, of 29th January, that the Consulting Engineer for the whole trunk line should in fairness be British.
His Excellency in his Memorial shows no sense of obligation to His Majesty's Government for the extraordinarily good terms given him, and in his actions since the loan was granted one perceives no trace of gratitude for British support at a crisis in his career, concerning the gravity of which the Memorial is frank enough. In the "Universal Gazette of 15th March is a report (copy and translation enclosed) which proves the Canton Viceroy to be equally insensible of English claims to consideration.
I have, &c.,
Sir Ernest M. Satow, G.C.M.G.,
His Majesty's Minister,
&c.. &c., &c.,
E. H. FRASER,
Consul-General.
• No. 253.
† No. 213.
Enclosures in No. 254.
Peking.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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