CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 249

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA RAILWAYS,

CONFIDENTIAL.

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[January 21.]

SECTION--1.

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RECP

13

No. 1.

Colonial Office to Foreign Office.--(Received January 21.)

(Confidential.)

THE Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments. £££ 07

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and is directed by the Secretary of State to transmit, for the information of Sir E. Grey, with reference to the letter from the Foreign Department of the 14th November, 1906, copies of Secret despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong and inclosures on the subject of the Canton-Whampoa Railway.

Downing Street, January 19, 1907.

(Secret.) My Lord,

Inclosure 1 in No. 1.

Governor Sir M. Nathan to the Earl of Elgin.

Government House, Hong Kong, November 1, 1906. IN continuation of my Secret despatch of the 19th September, 1906, dealing with the project to connect Canton with Whampoa by a railway, I have the honour to inclose, for your Lordship's information, a copy of a despatch with inclosures (except Chinese newspapers) which I have this day addressed to His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking.

1 have, &c.

(Signed)

M. NATHAN.

Sir,

Inclosure 2 in No. 1.

Governor Sir M, Nathan to Sir J. Jordan,

Government House, Hong Kong, November 1, 1906.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Carnegie's despatch of the 9th September, and your Excellency's of the 9th October, inclosing copies of despatches dealing with the Chinese project to connect Canton with Whampoa by railway, addressed on the 9th September and the 4th October respectively to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

2. In continuation of my Secret despatch of the 19th September, I inclose, for information, a copy of the issues of the "Sheung Po" of the 18th, of the "We Tsz Ya Po" of the 19th, and of the "Tsun Wan Yat Po" of the 20th October, together with translations of articles in these papers on the subject of this railway scheme.

I have, &c. (Signed)

(Translation.)

Inclosure 3 in No. 1.

Extract from the " Sheung Po" of October 18, 1906.

THE Whampoa Railway Engineer passing Hong Kong.

M. NATHAN.

His Excellency Cheung, Lord High Chamberlain, who undertakes to build the Canton-Whampoa Railway, has engaged an American engineer at a monthly salary of 1,800 dollars. The engineer, having arrived at Hong Kong, has departed for Canton in the steam-ship "Ying King" last night to take up his duties.

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