CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 501

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Corporation and the French group in equal moieties,

and that the Belgian group referred to in the memoran-

dum communicated by the French Embassy is not inter-

ested in the business except so far as the French group

may be willing to admit them to a participation in

that part of the capital, which is to be at the dis-

posal of the French group.

His Majesty's Government also understand that the

Chairman of the Company is to be a British subject ap-

pointed by the British group and he will have a cast-

ing-vote.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

January 24, 1906.