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Letter of His Excellency Sheng relative to the prefer-
ential right to the Hankow-Canton Line.
IMPERIAL ADMINISTRATION OF CHINESE RAILWAYS,
SHANGHAI,
June 26th 1898.
The undersigned, Sheng-Hsuan-huai, Director Ger
eral of the Chinese Railway Company, declares that he
reserves to the Société d'Etudes des Chemins de fer
en Chine, a preferential right as regards the railway
to be built from Hankow to Canton, in case the pro-
visional contract, as drawn up in Washington between
His Excellency Sheng and the American Syndicate
(Carey-Washburn), should not become a definitive
one.
It is well understood that this preferential
right is granted to the Société d'Etudes des Chemins
de fer en Chine, under the terms of Article 14 of
the Wuchang contract, which formally prohibits the
Société Belge d'Etudes des Chemins de fer en Chine
from transferring any of its rights to any company
of
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