CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 726

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CUINA RAILWAYS.

REC

(REGE 25 OCT 09

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[September 27.]

SECTION 2.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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(No. 100.)

(Telegraphic.) P.

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan,

CHÊNCHOW-FU - Tsitsihar Railway.

Foreign Office, September 27, 1909.

Please see your telegram No. 158 of the 25th September.

We cannot,

The view you have taken of your instructions is the correct one. however, meanwhile support the negotiations of the Americans and Pauling's. Our attitude, if we are obliged to intervene, should be that we regard as reasonable the Japanese request for conditions which will protect the South Manchurian Railway from competition which would be injurious to its interests.

[2413 dd-2]