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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL
[February 1973]
TRESS SECTION 5 MAR 08
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No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Sir D. Brynmor Jones, M.P.
Foreign Office, February 14, 1908.
WITH reference to your letter of the 4th instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that there is nothing in Chinese Treaty obligations to this country which can be construed as preventing the Chinese Government from concluding an Agreement not to construct railways to compete with an existing line. As a matter of fact, His Majesty's Government would certainly raise an objection to the construction by China of railways which would compete injuriously with railways for which Concessions had been obtained in favour of British firms; and they have, indeed, actually done so in a recent case.
It need hardly be added that His Majesty's Minister at Peking will continue to give assistance to British enterprise in China whenever this can properly be done.
I am, &c.
(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL
[February 1973
TRESS SECTION 5 MAR 08
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[3993]
No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Sir D. Brynmor Jones, M.P.
Foreign Office, February 14, 1908. WITH reference to your letter of the 4th instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that there is nothing in Chinese Treaty obligations to this country which can be construed as preventing the Chinese Government from concluding an Agreement not to construct railways to compete with an existing line. As a matter of fact, His Majesty's Government would certainly raise an objection to the construction by China of railways which would compete injuriously with railways for which Con- cessions had been obtained in favour of British firms; and they have, indeed, actually done so in a recent case.
It need hardly be added that His Majesty's Minister at Peking will continue to give assistance to British enterprise in China whenever this can properly be done.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
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