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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Goverment/1899

CHINA RAILWAYS.

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REG 27 MAY 09) [May 11.]

CONFIDENTIAL

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No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

SECTION 1.

(No. 90.) (Telegraphic.) P.

Foreign Office, May 11, 1909. CANTON-HANKOW Railway loan. Please see your telegram No. 88 of the 9th

instant.

In negotiations at Berlin Mr. Addis will, on the strength of your opinion that protests from us would in any case successfully prevent the signature of the German final Agreement, hold out for the terms which you indicate in your telegram No. 86 of the 7th instant.

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