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Transmits copies of two letters from the Consulting Engineers promising_a further communication when Mr. Bruce's report and estimates of his survey for the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway have been fally considered.
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200
Crown Agents
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Foreign Office
December 27 Transmits Intelligence Report for Sep- tember quarter from the Consul- General at Canton on the position of the various railways.
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201
192
Ditto
December 27
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Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lang- downe.
(430)
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Governor
Nathan.
Sir M. Secret
November 30 (Rec. Dec. 80.)
Transmits copy of a letter informing the British and Chinese Corporation of the objection of the Viceroys of Canton and Wuchang to a loan of £2,000,000, and that the Governor of Hong Kong considers £1,500,000 will be sufflolent.
Transmits further telegraphic corres- pondence relative to the Loan Agree- ment and Joint Working Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon line, and notes of an interview with the Secre- tary to the Viceroy of the Two Kwang.
Transmita further telegraphic corres- pondence relative to the proposed loan to the Viceroy of Wochang.
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Secret
December 1 (Rec. Dec. 30.)
1906.
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202
Governor
Nathan.
Sir M. Secret
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1906.
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January 26
December 11, 1905. (Rec. Jan, 27, 1906.)
December 29 1905. (Rec. Jan. 27, 1906.)
January 29
Expresses opinion that the Hong Kong Ordinance, No. 12 of 1905, amending the General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance (1893), is quite inadequate for the purpose for which it has been passed, and that an error in section 2 apparently renders it inoperative : submits views as to the relative ad- vantages of raising the stock by loan or debentures.
Reports that the Viceroy Ts'en had been instructed to open negotiations in regard to the Canton-Kowloon Railway but bad insisted upon the appoint- ment of Sheng as negotiator; he (Sir E. Satow) has objected to this, and the Viceroy will be instructed to negotiate or appoint a deputy.
Transinite further telegraphic corres- pondence, minutes of "Mr. Ross's meetings with the Viceroy's deputies, and a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General, Canton, covering a letter from the Viceroy, on the sub- ject of the Loan Agreement and Joint Working Agreement, Canton-Kow- loon Railway.
Transmite copy of a despatch from Sir E. Batow enclosing translation from the "Shuntien Shih Pao" of 29th Novem- ber, 1905, reporting a conversation between M. Deloncle and the Wai Wu Pu on the subject of French enter- prise in China,
Submite documents showing that the Viceroy of Canton refuses to consider the draft final Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon line and demands the cancellation of the preliminary Agreement, and asks what stepe are being taken to protect their interesta.
Transmits report of the Consulting Engi- geers on the survey report and anti- mates submitted by Mr. Brace, on the British section of the Kowloon-Can- ton Railway, and oopy of correspond- ence as to gange, weight of rails, do.; requests authority to carry out the work in accordance with the recommendations made.
Acknowledges receipt of No. 204, and states that the Foreign Office is being communicated with on the subject.
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Foreign Office
January 29
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Secret
December 15, 1905.
(Rec, Jan. 13, 1906.)
Transmits telegraphic correspondence relative to a Loan and Joint Working Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon Railway and reports progress of nego- tiations.
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196
Foreign Office
January 18
Transmita copy of correspondence_with His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, The British and Chinese Corporation, and Sir E. Satow, showing conditions on which the French are to participate in the Hankow-Canton loan.
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204
The British
and
Chinese Corpora-
tion, Limited.
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Ditto
198
Ditto
199
Ditto
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Crown Agents
January 30
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January 19
Transmite copies of further papers com- municated by the British and Chinese Corporation relative to foreign co- operation in the Hankow-Canton loan.
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January 23
January 24
Transmits, with remarks, reply of the British and Chinese Corporation to the objections to their proposal to insert the sum of £2,000,000 in Article I. of the Agreement, as the amount of the Canton-Kowloon Railway loan.
Transmits copy of a note from the Chinese Minister communicating a telegram from the Viceroy of Canton suggesting that each party should commence work on ita own end of the Canton-Kowloon line, junction being made later, and of the reply taking exception to the statement that the preliminary Agreement of 12th March, 1899, was a private one between Sheng and the British and Chinese Corporation.
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To The British and Chinese Corpora. tion, Limited.
February 3
207
To Crown Agents...
February 7
Concurs generally in the course pro- posed in No. 200 as to the method of raising the loan.
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