CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 781

In any further commanica-

tion on this subject, please quote

No. 20378.

and address-.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Ottice,

London.

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FOREIGN OPTICE08 ༢༩༩

June 29th, 1908.

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Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter 19224/1908 of the

12th instant forwarding correspondence with the Gov-

ernor of Hongkong respecting the Canton-Hankow Railway.

I am to transmit to you, to be laid before the

Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a des-

patch which has since been received from His Majesty's

Minister at Peking on the subject.

I am to suggest that Sir F. Lugard's attention

should be invited to this despatch and to the papers

communicated to this Department by Mr. Addis of the

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on February 25th, and already

sent to you in print in the usual course, which embody

the agreement concluded at that time between the Eng-

lish and French syndicates. It will then be clear to

him that the present deadlock is not caused by any

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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