CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 345

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,]

CHINA RAILWAYS.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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RECE [January 15.

SECTION 1.

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(No. 14.)

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J, Jordan,

(Telegraphic.) P.

Foreign Office, January 15, 1909. RAILWAY loan. See my telegram No. 12 of the 13th instant. The British and Chinese Corporation's reply is being sent to Berlin this evening, It is to the effect that as it is evident that the loan which is referred to is that which is being negotiated between the Chinese and the Corporation's representative for the Canton-Hankow line, and as this line falls within the British sphere as defined in the Agreement of 1898 between Great Britain and Germany, the Corporation hope that when the German Syndicate receive this information they will decline to offer for the loan.

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