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Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
TABLE showing approximate Distances and Heights by Road and proposed Railway between Tengyueh and Tali.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 583
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
C.
[July 15.28491
REC SECTION 10 AUG 07
REG
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No. 1.
Distances in Miles.
Heights in feet.
Mountain Passes,
Valleys.
Road.
Road.
Railway.
Railway.
Tengyueh
5,400
5
13
Divide
7,800
6,500
15
24
Shweli River
4,000
23
37
Divide
8,000
6,900
38
57
Sulween River
2,400
53
?
Divide
7,200
6,600
61
?
Yungchang
5,500
73
Divide
7,800
5,400
81
121
Mekong River
4,000
92
139
Divide
$,200
7,400
100%
155
Yung-ping
5,200
111
181
Divide
8,100
7,700
123
192
Shun-pi River
5,100
135
Divide (avoided by Railway)
8,100
218
Junction of Shun-pi and Yang-pi
Rivers
4,550
149
228
Ping-po (Yang-pi and Hsia-kuau
Rivers)
4,900
160 1704
230
Hsia-kuan Town
240
Tali
6,600 6,700
6,600
6,700
Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
Tracing showing the Main Roads from Bhamo to Talifu, and the possible Railway Route.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 15.)
(No. 255. Confidential.) Sir,
Peking, May 29, 1907. WITH reference to my despatch No. 240 of the 16th instant, and to my telegrams Nos. 86 and 87 of the 21st instant, and No. 90 of the 25th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, and which gives a complete summary of the Viceroy of Wnchang's loan negotiations up to the 25th instant.
In accordance with your instructions I have throughout communicated freely with my Japanese colleague on the subject, and I have supplied him with a copy of the Viceroy's note to Mr. Consul-General Fraser of the 9th September, 1905, recording his Excellency's obligations to us relative to the Hankow-Canton line. In regard to the Hankow-Szechuan line, I explained to Mr. Hayashi that we also had an engagement with the Wai-wu Pa recorded in an exchange of notes of September 1903, whereby China agreed that, in the event of her desiring to construct that line, and her own capital proving insufficient, she would obtain the necessary foreign capital from Great Britain and the United States. I also informed him of our position in regard to the French capitalists.
In a letter of the 24th instant Mr. Hayashi informed me that he had telegraphed to Hankow stating our position, and suggesting to his people to act in conformity with it. From the tenor of this communication, and from a conversation which Mr. Hillier had with Mr. Flayashi on the same day, a memorandum of which I have the honour to inclose, I did not feel sure that the Japanese would refrain from entertaining the Viceroy's suggestion of a loan nominally for general purposes, but really for railway construction, nor that they fully realized the unfortunate effect which would be produced on His Majesty's Government and the London market by such an under- mining of our position which had been clearly explained to them.
I therefore again saw Mr. Hayashi on the 27th instant, and am glad to be ab 1 to report that he gave me further and stronger assurances than those he had previously given, but expressed the hope that some scheme enabling the Japanese to participate would be arranged.
In regard to this point Mr. Hillier informed me on the 27th instant that he had received a telegram from London suggesting the advisability of allowing Japanese co-operation. I expressed the opinion that His Majesty's Government would probably have no objection to such co-operation either in the Hankow-Szechuan or in the Hankow-Canton line, provided that British preponderance were maintained, but I insisted strongly that his principals in London should consult with you on the subject. Mr. Hillier has communicated with his French colleague, M. Casenave, and finds that he also has no objection to giving the Japanese such participation in the proposed loan. as will remove their opposition. They have, therefore, decided to telegraph to the Anglo-French group to ask what terms they are prepared to offer to the Japanese.
In this connection, and with reference to my telegram No. 240 of the 7th November last, I have the honour to inclose copy of a letter addressed on the 22nd November, 1906, by the Special Japanese Financial Commissioner at Paris to the French Minister of Finance in regard to Japanese participation in railway construction.
I have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
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