CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 388

(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government)

C.O. 17226

CHINA RAILWAYS.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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(No. 85.)

(Telegraphic.) P.

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

HANKOW-CANTON Railway Loan.

REG 21 MAY 09,

[May 3.]

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SECTION 1.

Foreign Office, May 3, 1909,

I quite concur in the reply sent to Mr. Hillier on the 1st instant as reported in your telegram No. 82 of that date, and I am very glad that a satisfactory settlement of the question is now not impossible.

The Germans cannot be left in exclusive possession of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, such an abandonment of the line would be out of the question.

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