CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 417

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

CHINA RAILWAYS.

CONFIDENTIAL

[35507]

No. 1,

[October 28.]

SECTION 1,

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Sir F. Lascelles to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received October 28.)

Berlin, October 19, 1907.

(No. 462.) Sir,

I HAVE the honour to report that the "Berliner Neueste Nachrichten " of yesterday publishes a telegram from Peking, received through the German Cablegram Company, to the following effect:-

"The Wai-wu Pu has instructed the Chinese Minister at Berlin to inform the German Government that China intends to herself undertake the section of railway from Tsingtau to Clen-fu in South Shantung, a Concession for the construction of which was formerly granted to Germany. This railway was intended to be a branch of the projected Tien-tsin-Chinkiang Railway."

No other newspaper has published this telegram, and the "Berliner Neueste Nachrichten" itself expresses a doubt whether the news is correct.

I have, &c. (Signed) FRANK C. LASCELLES.

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