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! OCT 07
[September 17.]
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(30112]
No. 1.
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to China Association.
Foreign Office, September 17, 1907, WITH reference to the letter addressed to you from this Office on the 5th instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that His Majesty's Consul- General at Mukden has reported to His Majesty's Minister at Peking that the announce- ment of the Japanese papers, that the differential rates levied by the railway authorities from Dalny into Manchuria were to cease on the 1st July, has not been fulfilled.
The rates to Dalny are now given as 3 cents, 2 cents, and 1% cents
per ton
per mile for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class goods. Mr. Fulford states that he was misled by the positive tone of a Mukden paper to give the erroneous information referred to in the letter from this Office of the 5th instant.
In view, however, of the uncertainty which appears to exist in regard to the whole matter, a communication has been addressed to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokið requesting him to ascertain from the Japanese authorities exactly what is intended in the matter.
Sir C. MacDonald has also been authorized, at his discretion, to express to the Japanese Government the hope that the total rates from Dalny (Dairen) to Mukden and elsewhere in Manchuria will be so arranged that Nowchwang will be placed on
an equal footing with that port.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
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