CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905 — Page 11

Incl.

Received

Foreign Office

to

Endes

Sui E. Saline to the marquess of

10

Lanvedowne

lo.130.

F. O.,

C 0. 19701

RECR

April 18 1905UN 05

PEKING,

#

My Lord:-

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt

of Your Lordship's despatch No.42 of February 24th

enclosing copy of a letter from the Colonial Office

with enclosures relating to the proposed railway from

Canton to Kowloon.

Mr. Ross who is mentioned in the second

paragraph of Your Lordship's despatch called on me

by appointment on the 15th instant and we discussed

the question of the appointment of a negotiator on

the Chinese side. I said that our experience of

Sheng Kung-pao in connection with the negotiations

for the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, and for the conver-

sion of the Peking Syndicate's railway into a Chinese

Government line had not been satisfactory. Mr. Ross

observed that the preliminary contract was signed by

Sheng, and informed me that when passing through

Shanghai on his way to Peking he had endeavoured to

ascertain

The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.,

&C.

&c.