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prout out, if you have not already done so, that the loan agreement with the British

and China Corporation is no uzw depaskirs it having been accepted in principle as long ago as the year 1898 when the precummary Agreement for the Canton - How von maivas, (of which you.

have

a

Copy) was signed by Shang Kung Pao. This prelimmar, document

quial autreipated that the signature of a

agreement should follow the Conclusionit our for the Shanghai - Nanking railway. It is the draft of this fuial agreement that now awaits acceptance by the Chuiese authorities.

4.

An agreement for the jouit working t the Chinese and British sections of this

Cauton - Kowloon Railway has also been foreshadowed in a previous convention, vitz: Lu the agreement signed at Peking on the 9th June 1898. The draft, of which you have communicatîd a summary & His Excellancy, will I trust be Reoguard as fair alike to the territories under His Excellency's and under

ay

Control.

5. As His Excellency recoquines, the early

conclusion of both these agreements and the consequent commaneament of the con struction of the railway an matters to which H.w's Government attribute great importance I chanfors await with much aitinst Communication of the reply which His Brentux may receive to his telegram is Peking.

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I have the honour to be

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Your obedient serrant. Wabilum, Jiathan.

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