Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Mr. Carnegie to Prince Ching.
Your Highness,
Peking, May 12, 1909
On the 19th April Sir Ernest Satow addressed a note to your Highness on the subject of the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, in which he pointed out that the Governor of Chekiang, relying on the Decree of the 23rd September, was ignoring an earlier obligation of the Chinese Government, regarding which your Highness stated that the Governor should negotiate with the British and Chinese Corporation. Sir Ernest Satow repeated his former requests that your Highness should inform the Governor that the Preliminary Agreement must be faithfully carried out, and that he should consequently receive the Corporation's Representative for the purpose of negotiating a Final Agreement.
To this note your Highness has not yet been good enough to reply. In the meantime the Representative of the Corporation, Mr. Bland, has arrived in Peking on business connected with the Shanghae-Nanking Railway; and as it is clear that his Excellency the Governor of Chekiang has no intention of carrying out the negotiations, which in your letter of the 1st January your Highness stated would be continued by his Excellency, I beg to suggest that advantage be now taken of Mr. Bland's presence in Peking to discuss the terms of the Final Agreement here. I have the honour, therefore, to request that your Highness will be good enough to obtain the Imperial sanction for the appointment of a negotiator to discuss and determine a Final Agreement in a friendly spirit with Mr. Bland in Peking.
I avail, &c. (Signed)
L. D. Carnegie
Peking the Final Agreement for a line from Canton to the boundary of the Kowloon territory.
Further, as I have had the honour, in my immediately preceding note of to-day's date, to request that a negotiator may be appointed for the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway Agreement, I would suggest, for your Highness' consideration, the advisability of entrusting the arrangements for both Agreements to one negotiator, for the sake of convenience and expedition.
Awaiting the honour of an early reply, I avail, &c.
L. D. Carnegie,
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Your Highness,
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Mr. Carnegie to Prince Ch'ing.
Peking, May 12, 1909
I have the honour to inform your Highness that I have received a telegram from his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong stating that he has learnt, on trustworthy authority, that the Canton provincial authorities are taking energetic steps to give effect to the Chinese scheme of constructing a railway from the provincial capital along the right bank of East River through Whampoa. Such a line would follow for the distance of about 120 Chinese li the proposed route of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, his Excellency points out that as the Preliminary Agreement for the construction of the Canton-Kowloon Railway provides that the Final Agreement shall follow, as far as practicable, the terms of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement, and the latter Agreement stipulates that no rival lines shall be constructed without the consent of the Director-General and the Corporation, the present Chinese scheme for building a line from Canton through Whampoa is a breach of the Preliminary Agreement of the 28th March, 1899.
I find it difficult to understand, if Sir Matthew Nathan's information is correct, how the support of the provincial authorities to such a scheme can be reconciled with the understanding arrived at in Canton between the Viceroy's representatives and Mr. ... representing the British and Chinese Corporation. This understanding, as communicated to me by Mr. Bland, was to the effect that his Excellency was prepared to agree to the arrangements which might be arrived at between the Chinese Government and the Corporation.
Mr. Bland thereupon came to Peking with the object of giving effect to this understanding, and I therefore have the honour to request your Highness to impress on his Excellency the Viceroy, by telegraph, that the construction of the Whampoa line by China herself is a breach of the Preliminary Agreement between the British and Chinese Corporation, and should not be further considered; and I beg to request your Highness to obtain the Imperial sanction for a negotiator to be appointed to discuss and determine in a friendly spirit with the Corporation's representative.
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Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Mr. Carnegie to Prince Ching.
Your Highness,
Peking, May 12, 1 ON the 19th April Sir Ernest Satow addressed a note to your Highness subject of the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, in which he pointed out th Governor of Chekiang, relying on the Decree of the 23rd September, was ignor earlier obligation of the Chinese Government, regarding which your Highnes stated that the Governor should negotiate with the British and Chinese Corpor Sir Ernest Satow repeated his former requests that your Highness should infor Governor that the Preliminary Agreement must be faithfully carried out, and th should consequently receive the Corporation's Representative for the pur negotiating a Final Agreement,
To this note your Highness has not yet been good enough to reply. la meantime the Representative of the Corporation, Mr. Bland, has arrived in Pekiz business connected with the Shanghae-Nanking Railway; and as it is clear tha Excellency the Governor of Chekiang has no intention of carrying tut i negotiations, which in your letter of the 1st January your Highness stated woul continued by his Excellency, I beg to suggest that advantage be now te Mr. Bland's presence in Peking to discuss the terms of the Final Agreement here, I have the honour, therefore, to request that your Highness will be good eno obtain the Imperial sanction for the appointment of a negotiator to discus determine a Final Agreement in a friendly spirit with Mr. Bland in Peking.
I avail, &c. (Signed)
L. D. CARNEGI
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Peking the Final Agreement for a line from Canton to the boundary of the Kowloon territory.
Further, as I have had the honour, in my immediately preceding note of to-day's date, to request that a negotiator may be appointed for the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway Agreement, I would suggest, for your Highness' consideration, the advisability of entrusting the arrangements for both Agreements to one negotiator, for the sake of convenience and expedition.
Awaiting the honour of an early reply, I avail, &c.
L. D. CARNEGIE,
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Your Highness,
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Mr. Carnegie to Prince Ch'ing.
Peking, May 12, 19 I HAVE the honour to inform your Highness that I have received a telegraa bis Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong stating that he has learnt, on trusta authority, that the Canton provincial authorities are taking energetic steps to give to the Chinese scheme of constructing a railway from the provincial capital al right bank of East River through Whampoa. Such a line would follow for the de of about 120 Chinese li the proposed route of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, Excellency points out that as the Preliminary Agreement for the construction Canton-Kowloon Railway provides that the Final Agreement shall follow, as practicable, the terms of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement, and the Agreement stipulates that no rival lines shall be constructed without the consento Director-General and the Corporation, the present Chinese scheme for building from Canton through Whampoa is a breach of the Preliminary Agreement 28th March, 1899.
I find it difficult to understand, if Sir Matthew Nathan's information is corred the support of the provincial authorities to such a scheme can be reconciled t understanding arrived at in Canton between the Viceroy's representatives and Mr. representing the British and Chinese Corporation. This understanding, as comm to me by Mr. Bland, was to the effect that his Excellency was prepared to agree arrangements which might be arrived at between the Chinese Government Corporation.
Mr. Bland thereupon came to Peking with the object of giving effect understanding, and I therefore have the honour to request your Highness to impress on his Excellency the Viceroy, by telegraph, that the construction of the Whampoa line by China herself is a breach of the Preliminary Agreement an British and Chinese Corporation, and should not be further considered; and ses to request your Highness to obtain the Imperial sanction for a negotiator to be all to discuss and determine in a friendly spirit with the Corporation's representa
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