CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 733

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

CHINA RAILWAYS.

CONFIDENTIAL.

11287

Rece REGP 1 APR OC

[February 23.]

SECTION 1.

(7474)

(No. 35.)

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

(Telegraphic.) P.

Foreign Office, February 23, 1909, THEIR agent at Peking has informed Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim by telegraph that British and Chinese Corporation, with your aid, are strongly opposing the negotiatious for a loan for the construction of new war-ships for the Chinese Government.

We presume that the question has been confused with that of Railway Loan, and that a complete misunderstanding has arisen.

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