[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
40792
RECS
1 November3d7 FC 09,
SECTION 1.
318
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No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Board of Trade.
Foreign Office, November 30, 1909. WITH reference to my letter of the 19th instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's consul at Hanoi,* reporting that preferential rates are accorded to goods of French and Indo-Chinese origin dispatched from Haiphong or Hanoi on the French portion of the line to Mongtze, the present terminus of the Yunnan Railway in China, now under construction by a French company, and that they will apply to goods dispatched to Yunnan-fu, the eventual terminus, as soon as traffic is opened to that town.
Sir E. Grey would be glad to be furnished with the views of the Board of Trade as to the existence of any grounds on which this matter could be brought to the notice of the French Government, with a view to endeavouring to obtain the removal of the preferential rate.
The Board will observe that the rates in question are only in force until the 1st July, 1910, on which date they, as well as the system of rebates referred to in Mr. Carlisle's despatch No. 1 of the 10th July, a copy of which was sent to you on the 1st September last, will be liable to revision.
I am, &c,
F. A. CAMPBELL,
* Consul Carlisle, No. 6, October 14, 1909.
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