CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 251

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

CHINA RAILWAYS.

[May 18.]

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SECTION 13 JUN 07

(No. 55.)

(Telegraphic.) P.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

Foreign Office, May 18, 1907. SOOCHOW-NINGPO Railway: your telegram No. 82 of the 15th instant. You may accept proposal.

The British and Chinese Corporation concur in this course, and do not press Mr. Bland's opinion as to the condition mentioned in your telegram under reply, namely, that work on the Suchow-Kiahing section of the line be stopped.

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