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In any further commnuicn-

tion on this subject, please quote

No.

28629.

and address -*-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

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C.

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FOREIGN OFFICE September, 1907.

Confidential.

mm

ssed draft Meme for

to M. Cambon.

ish portions enclosed in red brackets/

Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sin E, Grey to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter 29760/1907 of the

24th ultimo on the subject of the claims of the

French Government in respect of French participation

in the proposed Canton-Hankow Railway loan and to

state for the information of the Secretary of State

for the Colonies that the points raised therein have

been given careful consideration.

It is understood from paragraph 7 of your letter

that the Earl of Elgin's objection to the terms of the

proposed reply to the French Ambassador is based on

the fact that in his opinion the position taken up in

the French Memorandum is inconsistent with the propo-

sal on which his predecessor was consulted in November

1905; and constitutes in fact a new departure and

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office."

that