CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 437

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ing agreement, as these must greatly depend on considerations with regard to which sufficient information was not yet available.

I do not find that you have since recurred to the subject, and I presume that you accepted the view of the consulting Engineers. So long as Sir John Wolfe Barry were also recognised as Consulting Engineers for the Chinese section, it did not appear that the position would be prejudiced by delay in discussing the details of a working agreement, but the question has assumed a new aspect owing to the unwillingness of the Chinese administration to continue this arrangement. As you are aware, I have been in correspondence with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on this matter, and I was in hopes that His Majesty's Minister in Peking would have been able

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J • 430 hir. A. I. Barry a ing agreement, as these must greatly depend on considerations with regard to which sufficient information was not yet available. 2. I do not find that you have since recurred to the subject, and I presume that you accepted the view of the consulting Engineers. So long as Sir John Wolfe Barry were also recognised as Consulting Engineers for the Chinese section, it did not appear that the position would be prejudiced by delay in discussing the details of a working agreement, but the question has assumed a new aspect owing to the unwillingness of the Chinese administration to continue this arrangement. As you are aware, I have been in correspondence with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on this matter, and I was in hopes that His Majesty's Minister in Peking would have been able

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J • 430 hir. A. I. Bany a ing agreement, as these must greatly depend on considerations with regard to which suf- ficient information was not yet available. 2. I do not find that you have since recurred to the subject, and I presume that you accepted the view of the "onsulting ngineers. So long as Sir John Wolfe Barry were also recognised as Consult- and Fast firs ing Engineers for the Chinese section, it did not appear that the position would be prejudiced by delay in discussing the details of a working agreement, but the question has assumed a new aspect owing to the un- willingness of the Chinese administration to continue this arrangement. As you are aware, I have been in correspondence with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on this matter, and I was in hopes that His ajesty's Minister in Peking would have been able :

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hir. A. I. Bany

ing agreement, as these must greatly depend

on considerations with regard to which suf-

ficient information was not yet available.

I do not find that you have since

recurred to the subject, and I presume that

you accepted the view of the "onsulting

ngineers. So long as Sir John Wolfe Barry

were also recognised as Consult-

and

Fast firs

ing Engineers for the Chinese section, it

did not appear that the position would be

prejudiced by delay in discussing the details

of a working agreement, but the question

has assumed a new aspect owing to the un-

willingness of the Chinese administration

to continue this arrangement. As you are

aware, I have been in correspondence with

the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

on this matter, and I was in hopes that His

ajesty's Minister in Peking would have been

able

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