CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905 — Page 293

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THE BRITISH AND CHINese CorpoRATION LIMITED.

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No. 58

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office, $

June 16th. 1905.

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I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th. instant numbered 19701/1905 and to inform you that a telegram was despatched last evening to Messrs. Jardine,

Matheson & Co., Hongkong, in the following terms:-

"Referring to letter from Ross to British Minister 17th.

"April we repudiate Ross's statement with regard to Section

"number 16 and our practice. Colonial Office exceedingly

"annoyed.

Inform Ross."

I extremely regret Mr. Ross's unfortunate remark for

which I can offer no justification but feel bound to submit that

when read and examined in conjunction with Sir E. Satow's

letter, to which it is in reply, there is no suggestion of any

meditated surrender of a position which the Corporation and

Mr. Ross were specially charged to maintain.

The paragraph, as I read it, does not refer to the

main mode or principle of sharing profits according to the cost

of the two sections of railway but to the subsidiary point of

the exclusion from the capital cost, of land, discounts and

commission.

That this anticipated "Stumbling block" and others

should have been the subject of conference between Mr. Ross and

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