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Schedule oF PAYMENTS OF INTEREST AND REPAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL.
Year.
Date.
Interest,
Principal.
Total Payment.
E. H. Fraser, Esquire,
May 27
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£
£
185
I have the honour specially to write the above for your information.
I have, &c.,
His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,
Hankow.
Card of the Viceroy CHANG.
24,750
24,750
1906
November 27
24,750
110,000
134.730
(2.)
May 27
22.275
22.275
(Translation.)
1907
November 27
22,275
110,000
132,275
SIR,
May 27
19,800
•
19,800
1908
November 27
19,800
110,000
129,800
May 27
*
17,325
17,325
1909
November 27
17,325
110,000
127,325
May 27
14,850
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1910
November 27
14,850
110,000
14,850
124,850
May 27
12,375
1911
November 27
12,375
110,000
12,375
122,375
May 27
9,900
9,900
1912
November 27
9,900
110,000
119,900
Muy 27
7,425
7,425
1913
(Received August 9, 1905.
6 p.m.)
THE Canton-Kowloon Railway is a question apart from the present loan, and it was never mentioned when I first consulted you about raising the loan.
My powers and office relate solely to the Canton-Hankow Railway, and I am also entirely unacquainted with the details of the first discussion of the Canton- Kowloon line. I cannot venture, therefore, rashly to obtrude my opinion on the arrangements for that railway, a matter which it really would not do for me to concern myself with.
The fact is, that while I am indeed deeply grateful for the genuine friendship and kindly feeling shown me by Sir Ernest Satow and yourself over the loan, had rather not take any part in the Canton-Kowloon Railway question.
I should feel very grateful if you would convey to Sir Ernest Satow my hope that he will pardon my insisting that the loan and the Canton-Kowloon Railway question be kept quite separate.
E. H. Fraser, Esq.,
His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,
Hankow.
I have, &c.,
Çard of Viceroy CHANG.
November 27
7,125
110,000
117,425
May 27
4,950
1914
November 27
4,950
110,000
4,950
114,950
Enclosure 4 in No. 138.
May 27
2,475
1915
November 27
Total
2,475
272,250
2,475
110,000 112,475
1,100,000 1,372,250
Enclosure 3 in No. 138.
(1.)
DEAR SIR MATTHEW NATHAN,
His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General,
Canton, August 22, 1905. I RETURN the three Hankow documents. The Viceroy did not exhibit any cagerness to see them, and seemed interested only in the amount and date of payment. He was aware of the negotiations and the terms generally, but he said that the Hankow Viceroy and himself did not view matters from the same standpoint.
My interview, I regret to say, has been a failure. To myself, knowing the Viceroy as I do, the result came as no surprise; but I was not quite prepared for his owning up so readily to his famous telegram to the Wai-wu-pu. He defended this telegram and repudiated entirely the Agreement of 1899. He talks of construct- ing a line with Chinese capital, but seeing that his Treasury does not possess enough even to pay a small debt to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, I do not see where he can get the money; for it is notorious that native merchants and bankers have all refused to subscribe.
From a remark the Viceroy made, I take it that he trusts entirely to a Singapore multi-millionaire to show himself the Deus ex machina.
SIR,
(Translation.)
(Received August 9, 1905. 6 p.m.)
I AM most grateful for your arranging the present loan for me on such very fair terms.
Hereafter, should the Canton-Hankow Railway need to borrow further funds for construction purposes, I will, of course, first make application to England, and if the interest, security, &c., are suitable in comparison with elsewhere, I will give England the first option of undertaking (the provision of capital).
If English money is borrowed for constructing the line, one-half the engineers required for the Canton-Hankow Railway will be English. As to the machinery and equipment of the Canton-Hankow Railway, with the exception of the iron rails, which will be provided by the Hanyang Ironworks, and the sleepers, which will be of Chinese provenance, England will have the first option of tendering for the equipment from abroad, and the general company of the three Provinces of Hupei, Hunan, and Kwang Tung will contract for those found to be moderate and suitable.
(Translation.)
Enclosure 5 in No. 138.
Yours, &c.,
JAMES SCOTT.
DESPATCH from the DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF CHINESE RAILWAYS to the VICEROY OF THE TWO KWANG with regard to the Canton-Kowloon Railway. YOUR EXCELLENCY,
December 31, 1898
On the 9th December, 1898, I received the following communication from the Tsungli Yamen.
On the 11th and 15th October, 1898, we received your telegram with regard to the objections raised locally to the construction of the Canton-Kowloon Railway,
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