CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 50

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

CHINA RAILWAYS,

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received January 31.)

THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and forwards, for the information of Sir E. Grey, a copy of a telegram from the Government of India on the subject of the Bbamo- Tengyueh Railway project.

India Office, January 30, 1907.

Inclosure in No. 1.

Government of India to Mr. Marley.

January 26, 1907.

(Telegraphic.) P.

YOUR telegram of the 9th January: Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway. Government of Burmah telegraphed on the 21st instant as follows: ----

"Survey party leaves Bhamo to-day, and will probably cross the frontier on the 27th instant. The party, numbering 34 in all, consists of Lilley and three other British officers, a Chinese interpreter, and I clerk, 1 hospital assistant, and 27 followers, all natives.

'Owing to necessity of keeping the number as low as possible, the Survey of India contingent have been omitted."

(Repeated to Peking.)

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