C.0.
2017
32
In any further communica tion on this subject, please quote
No.
1433.
and address-
The Under-Secretary of State,
London.
Foreign Office,
Fo
43304
Sir:-
STED FOR
RINTED
USE OF
EASTERN
Ne.
88
OLONIAL
OFFICE
REC
R: 19 JAN 20
FOREIGN OFFICE
January 18
+
1906.
On the 6th and 8th ultimo, copies of telegraphic
Correspondence with His Majesty's Minister at Peking,
respecting the question of French participation in
the Hankow-Canton Railway, were forwarded to your
Department from this Office.
As you will have observed, it was decided not
J. J. Bertie No 20
Jan. 12 1906.
Jan
b-1906
Ir Latow Tal 230 Aic 5 1905
to Do The 185
Dec 7 1905
to move further in the matter for the present.
Steps had however already been taken to ascer-
tain privately whether the British and Chinese Corpor-
ation saw any objection from a business point of view
to allowing a French group to participate in the un-
dertaking.
The Corporation who appear to have assumed from
the communication made to them that His Majesty's
Government were favourable to the project of joint
enterprise had in their negotiations with the Banque
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
de
ch
C.0.
2017
32
In any further communica
tion on this subject, please quote
No.
1433.
and address-
The Under-Secretary of State,
London.
Foreign Office,
Fo
43304
Sir:-
STED FOR
RINTED
USE OF
EASTERN
Ne.
88
OLONIAL
OFFICE
REC
R: 19 JAN 20
FOREIGN OFFICE
January 18
+
1906.
On the 6th and 8th ultimo, copies of telegraphic
454f7/Correspondence with His Majesty's Minister at Peking,
respecting the question of French participation in
the Hankow-Canton Railway, were forwarded to your
Department from this Office.
As you will have observed, it was decided not
J. J. Bertie No 20
Jan. 12 1906.
Ar Chinese Corpor"
Jan
b-1906
Ir Latow Tal 230 Aic 5 1905
to Do The 185
Dec 7 1905
to move further in the matter for the present.
Steps had however already been taken to ascer-
tain privately whether the British and Chinese Corpor-
ation saw any objection from a business point of view
to allowing a French group to participate in the un-
dertaking.
The Corporation who appear to have assumed from
the communication made to them that His Majesty's
Government were favourable to the project of joint
enterprise had in their negotiations with the Banque
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
de
ch
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