[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
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[June 22.] JUL 08
SECTION 1.
Sir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 22.)
(No. 25.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Paris, June 20, 1908.
HAVE received your despatch No. 266 of the 18th instant and Sir J. Jordan's telegram No. 124 of the 19th instant in regard to the French demand on the Chinese Government for an extension to Hsian-fu of the Chengting Taiyuan-fu Railway.
I was informed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs this afternoon that the French Minister at Peking had reported to the French Government his conversation with Sir J. Jordan (referred to in the latter's telegram No. 124), and that he had thereupon been instructed by telegraph not to include such an extension in his demands for reparation for the murder of the French officer and soldiers on the Yunnan frontier. His instructions are merely to say that, should the Chinese Government consent to the proposed extension, the French Government would be accommodating ("bien disposé") in regard to a settlement of the question of the murders. M. Pichon said that he would, in consequence of the representations which I had made on the part of His Majesty's Government, telegraph to the French Minister instructing him to avoid making any representation which could be construed as giving a political character to the suggestion in regard to the railway extension.
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[21274]
No. 1.
25671
[June @2.JUL 08
SECTION 1.
Sir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 22.)
(No. 25.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Paris, June 20, 1908. HAVE received your despatch No. 266 of the 18th instant and Sir J. Jordan's telegram No. 124 of the 19th instant in regard to the French demand on the Chinese Government for an extension to Hsian-fu of the Chengting Taiyuan-fu Railway.
I was informed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs this afternoon that the French Minister at Peking had reported to the French Government his conversation with Sir J. Jordan (referred to in the latter's telegram No. 124), and that he had thereupon been instructed by telegraph not to include such an extension in his demands for reparation for the murder of the French officer and soldiers on the Yunnan frontier. His instructions are merely to say that, should the Chinese Government consent to the proposed extension, the French Government would be accommodating ("bien disposé") in regard to a settlement of the question of the murders. M. Pichon said that he would, in consequence of the representations which I had made on the part of His Majesty's Government, telegraph to the French Minister instructing him to avoid making any representation which could be construed as giving a political character to the suggestion in regard to the railway extension,
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