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# CHINA RAILWAYS

## CONFIDENTIAL

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No. 1,

18 SEP 08

[June 25.]

## SECTION 1.

Sir,

Foreign Office to Colonial Office.

Foreign Office, June 25, 1908.

I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant on the subject of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.

Sir E. Grey concurs in the terms of the despatch which the Secretary of State for the Colonies proposes to send to the Governor of Hong Kong with a view to effecting a working agreement between the administrations of the British and Chinese sections of the Railway.

A copy of the draft will be sent to His Majesty's Minister at Peking for his information.

I am to take this opportunity of forwarding, for the Earl of Crewe's information, a copy of a despatch which has recently been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking.*

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I am, &c.

(Signed)

F. A. CAMPBELL.

* Sir J. Jordan, No. 238, May 26, 1908.