[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
425/
IRECR Ref 5 FEB OC
AFFAIRS OF CHINA
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
[December 3.]
SECTION. 1.
119
(No. 185.)
The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow,
Foreign Office, December 3, 1905.
(Telegraphic.) P.
LOAN for construction of Hankow-Canton Railway. The British and Chinese Corporation do not refuse to entertain the idea of the participation of French financiers which the French Government have proposed.
The Governor of Hong Kong, we are informed by the Colonial Office, holds a similar opinion to your own, and would prefer to adhere to the terms of the Agreement with the Wuchang Viceroy.
The participation of the French will probably facilitate the completion of the Hankow-Canton line, which the Colony desires to have finished by the time that the line from Canton to Kowloon is completed.
Moreover, on grounds of general policy, it is undesirable that we should reject the advances of the French unless you have strong reasons to urge to the contrary.
There seems little prospect, in the present mood of the Chinese, of our securing that the loan or concession shall be purely British.
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 425/
IRECR Ref 5 FEB OC
AFFAIRS OF CHINA
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
[December 3.]
SECTION. 1.
119
(No. 185.)
The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow,
Foreign Office, December 3, 1905.
(Telegraphic.) P.
LOAN for construction of Hankow-Canton Railway. The British and Chinese Corporation do not refuse to entertain the idea of the participation of French financiers which the French Government have proposed.
The Governor of Hong Kong, we are informed by the Colonial Office, holds a similar opinion to your own, and would prefer to adhere to the terms of the Agreement with the Wuchang Viceroy.
The participation of the French will probably facilitate the completion of the Hankow-Canton line, which the Colony desires to have finished by the time that the line from Canton to Kowloon is completed.
Moreover, on grounds of general policy, it is undesirable that we should reject the advances of the French unless you have strong reasons to urge to the contrary.
There seems little prospect, in the present mood of the Chinese, of our securing that the loan or concession shall be purely British.
[2295
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