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Confidential.

FOREIGN OFFICE, February 8th, 1906.

163

Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo on the subject of a meeting between your Representative and the Viceroy of Canton’s Deputies with regard to the Canton-Kowloon Railway and to inform you that a telegram has been addressed to His Majesty’s Minister at Peking enquiring the present state of the negotiations on the subject.

At the same time I am to state for the information of the British and Chinese Corporation that on November 27th last the Governor of Hongkong told the Viceroy’s Secretary that His Majesty’s Government were bound to support the Corporation in obtaining the fulfilment of the Agreement in regard to the Railway and that if there were any details in it which did not meet with the Viceroy’s approval, he should negotiate with the Corporation for their modification.

The Chairman, British and Chinese Corporation, 3, Lombard Street, London, E.C.

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Confidential. FOREIGN OFFICE, February 8th, 1906. 163 Sir:- I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo on the subject of a meeting between your Representative and the Viceroy of Canton’s Deputies with regard to the Canton-Kowloon Railway and to inform you that a telegram has been addressed to His Majesty’s Minister at Peking enquiring the present state of the negotiations on the subject. At the same time I am to state for the information of the British and Chinese Corporation that on November 27th last the Governor of Hongkong told the Viceroy’s Secretary that His Majesty’s Government were bound to support the Corporation in obtaining the fulfilment of the Agreement in regard to the Railway and that if there were any details in it which did not meet with the Viceroy’s approval, he should negotiate with the Corporation for their modification. The Chairman, British and Chinese Corporation, 3, Lombard Street, London, E.C.
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FOREIGN OFFICE,

February 8th, 1906.

163

Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo on the sub-

ject of a meeting between your Representative and the

Viceroy of Canton's Deputies with regard to the Canton-

Kowloon Railway and to inform you that a telegram has been

¡

addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking enquiring

the present state of the negotiations on the subject.

The Chairman

At the same time I am to state for the information of

the British and Chinese Corporation that on November 27th

last the Governor of Hongkong told the Viceroy's Secretary

that His Majesty's Government were bound to support the

Corporation in obtaining the fulfilment of the Agreement

in regard to the Railway and that if there were any details

in it which did not meet with the Viceroy'

Is approval, he

should negotiate with the Corporation for their modifica-

of the British and Chinese Corporation,

3, Lombard Street,

London, E.C.

tion

3

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