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In any further communica-

tion on this subject, please quote

No. 3059/09.

and address the

The Under-Secretary of State)

Foreign Office,

London.

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FOREIGN OFFICE

January 27th, 1909.

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5761

Horden

Tel. No. 33. P.

Sir:-

With reference to the letter from this Department

of the 23rd. instant I am directed by Secretary Sir Ed-

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ward Grey to transmit to you, herewith, to be laid be-

fore the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a para-

phrase of a telegram which has been received from His

Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to the proposed

loan for the Canton Hankow Railway.

I am to inform you that the substance of this

telegram has been communicated to Mr. Addis of the

I

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation who is now

abroad engaged in negotiation with the interested

French and German groups.

As regards British rights under the agreement of

September 9th, 1905 with Chang-chih Tung, it must be

borne in mind that these will fall to the ground in the

event of a foreign group making a more favourable of-

fer

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office: