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(CHINA RAILWAYS,
CONFIDENTIAL.
RECR
Rege 17 FC 09
[November 26.]
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SECTION 2.
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(No. 6.) Sir,
No. 1.
Consul Carlisle to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 26.)
Hanoi, October 14, 1909. IN reply to your despatch No. 1 of the 30th August last, I have the honour to state that the preferential rates in question extend to the whole line, that is to say, that they are accorded to goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin dispatched from Haiphong or Hanoi, on the French portion of the line, to Mongtze, and the present terminus of the line in China, and will apply to goods dispatched to Yunnan-fu, the eventual terminus, as soon as traffic is opened to that town. "They are only applicable to goods exported into China, therefore they are not accorded to goods travelling between two stations on the French part of the line. Similarly they would not apply to goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin dispatched from a station on the Chinese part of the line. In such a case, however, the goods would presumably have already benefited by the preference on their original journey into Yünnan.
In this connection, and in continuation of my despatch No. 3 of the 2nd instant, I have the honour to state that these preferential rates are only in force until the 1st July, 1910, on which date they, as well as the system of rebates referred to in my despatch No. 1 of the 10th July last, will be liable to revision.
I have, &c.
T. FF. CARLISLE.
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