CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6] — Page 304

FIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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... 15 JUN 08

Government House,

Hongkong, 14th. May, 1908.

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I received by last mail Confidenti -

-al Foreign Office Prints Nos. 6,018 of February 22nd.,

$519

and 6,670 of February 25th. (Colonial Office receipt stamp

of March 25th.) relative to the proposals of the French

Syndicate in reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway. Both

are telegraphie and the former refers to a detailed

Despatch sent by mail to His Majesty's Minister, Peking.

This explanatory Despatch has not been sent to me.

2.

The last previous date of any

paper on this subject was September 17th., 1907, and with

reference to the fragmentary nature of the papers which

have been sent to me, on this matter in which this Colony

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is so vitally interested I have already had the honour to

address Your Lordship in a separate Despatch of even date.

3.

It would appear from such papers

unable

as are in my possession that for reasons which I am wholly IGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREWE,

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