CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906 — Page 274

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Consul-General to Viceroy.

CANTON, 30 January, 1906.

Your Excellency,

I beg to refer Your Excellency to your letter of the 8th instant, in which you claim that the concession for the Canton-Kowloon Railway, as negotiated between Director-General Sheng of the Railway Administration and the Representative of Jardine Matheson & Co. and the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, is merely a draft Agreement and has not the binding effect of a regular contract. Your Excellency further claims that under the last Article of the Agreement, which provides for certain possible arrangements in connection with local conditions, you are free to alter the Agreement.

In reply, I beg to state that I duly communicated your letter to H. M. Minister and to the Governor of Hong Kong. I am now in receipt of an answer from the Governor, requesting me to point out to Your Excellency with regard to your first claim, that this Agreement was accepted by the Tsung-li Yamen and H. B. Minister at the time; that it was duly ratified by Imperial Edict; and consequently that the Viceroy of Canton cannot deny that it is a regular contract, nor ignore its terms.

With regard to Your Excellency's further claim under Article 5 of the Agreement, the Governor begs to point out, that the arrangements and amendments in question refer merely to the local conditions and difficulties which may arise

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Insulation. 270 Consul-General to Viceroy. CANTON, 30 January, 1906. Your Excellency, I beg to refer Your Excellency to your letter of the 8th instant, in which you claim that the concession for the Canton-Kowloon Railway, as negotiated between Director-General Sheng of the Railway Administration and the Representative of Jardine Matheson & Co. and the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, is merely a draft Agreement and has not the binding effect of a regular contract. Your Excellency further claims that under the last Article of the Agreement, which provides for certain possible arrangements in connection with local conditions, you are free to alter the Agreement. In reply, I beg to state that I duly communicated your letter to H. M. Minister and to the Governor of Hong Kong. I am now in receipt of an answer from the Governor, requesting me to point out to Your Excellency with regard to your first claim, that this Agreement was accepted by the Tsung-li Yamen and H. B. Minister at the time; that it was duly ratified by Imperial Edict; and consequently that the Viceroy of Canton cannot deny that it is a regular contract, nor ignore its terms. With regard to Your Excellency's further claim under Article 5 of the Agreement, the Governor begs to point out, that the arrangements and amendments in question refer merely to the local conditions and difficulties which may arise 20

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Inslation. 270 Consul-General to Vioaroy. CANTON, 30 January, 1906. Your Excellency, I bag to refer Your Excellency to your letter of the 8th instant, in which you claim that the concoesion for the Canton-Kowloon Railway, as nogotiated between Director-General Sheng of the Railway Administra- tion and the Representative of Jardine Matheson & Co. and the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, is merely a draft Agreement and has not the, binding effect of a ragu- lar contract. Your Excellency further claims that under the last Article of the Agreement, which provides for certain possible arrangements in connection with local conditions, you are free to alter the Agreement. In reply, I beg to state that I duly communicated your latter to H. M. Minister and to the Governor of Hong Kong. I am now in receipt of an answer from the Governor, requesting as to point out to Your Excellency with regard to your first claim, that this Agreement was accepted by the Tsung-11 fanen and B. B. Minister at the time; that it was duly ratified by Imperial Ediot; and consequently that the Viceroy of Canton cannot deny that it is a regular contract, nor ignore its terms. ith regard to Your Excellency's further claim under Article 5 of the Agreement, the Governor hegs to point out, that the arrangements and amandments in question refer merely to the local conditions and difficulties which may arise 20

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Inslation.

270

Consul-General to Vioaroy.

CANTON, 30 January, 1906.

Your Excellency,

I bag to refer Your Excellency to your

letter of the 8th instant, in which you claim that the

concoesion for the Canton-Kowloon Railway, as nogotiated

between Director-General Sheng of the Railway Administra-

tion and the Representative of Jardine Matheson & Co. and

the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, is merely a

draft Agreement and has not the, binding effect of a ragu-

lar contract. Your Excellency further claims that under

the last Article of the Agreement, which provides for

certain possible arrangements in connection with local

conditions, you are free to alter the Agreement.

In reply, I beg to state that I duly communicated

your latter to H. M. Minister and to the Governor of Hong

Kong. I am now in receipt of an answer from the Governor,

requesting as to point out to Your Excellency with regard

to your first claim, that this Agreement was accepted by

the Tsung-11 fanen and B. B. Minister at the time; that it

was duly ratified by Imperial Ediot; and consequently that

the Viceroy of Canton cannot deny that it is a regular

contract, nor ignore its terms.

ith regard to Your Excellency's further claim under

Article 5 of the Agreement, the Governor hegs to point out,

that the arrangements and amandments in question refer

merely to the local conditions and difficulties which may

arise

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