CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905 — Page 538

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C.O.

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14 NOV 05/

September 11, 1905.

Your Highness:-

I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

ceipt of Your Highness' Note of September 3rd on the

subject of the Canton Kowloon Railway. In this it

is objected that the proposals sketched in my memo-

randum of April 26th, according to which the line

falls into two sections, one to be built by the Hong-

kong Government and the other by the British and Chi-

nese Corporation on behalf of the Chinese Government,

are at variance with the terms of the Preliminary

Agreement of March 28th, 1899. Your Highness states

that, as regards the railway within Kuangtung terri-

tory, Chinese notables and merchants desire to raise

capital and construct the line themselves, and that

there is consequently no need for the British and

Chinese Corporation to borrow money on China's be-

Your Highness also mentions

half for this purpo80.

His Imperial Highness,

Prince Ch'ing.

&c.,

&c.,

&c.,

that,