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lu any further communion-

tion on this subject, please quote

No. 20078.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

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June 20, 1907.

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Sir:-

With reference to the letter from this Department

of the 17th instant am directed by Secretary Sir

Edward Grey to transmit to you a copy of a telegram,

which has been received from His Majesty's Minister

at Peking regarding the loans required by the

Viceroy of Wuchang for the Hupei Sections of the

Szechuen and Hankow-Canton Railways and by the Vice-

roy of Canton for the construction of the southern

section of the Canton-Hankow Railway.

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Sir E. Grey would be glad, in view of this tele-

gram, to learn whether in the opinion of the Earl of

Elgin there would be serious objection to some arrange-

ment whereby the northern section of this line should

be constructed with British, and the southern section

with French capital.

he Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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