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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
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23 NOV 09
[September 3.]
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SECTION 4.
(No. 145.)
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.(Received September 3.)
(Telographic.) P.
CHINCHOW-TSITSIHAR Railway.
Peking, September 3, 1909.
I had a conversation yesterday with Mr. Straight, who confirmed what I had previously reported to you in my immediately preceding telegrams Nos. 143 and 144 of the 31st August and 2nd September respectively.
His own Government, he said, were prepared to ignore Japanese protests, and the Chinese were firmly opposed to the Japanese being allowed to participate in any inanner whatever. The proposal now under consideration was to create a company with American, British, and Chinese directors who would control the railway, and it was thought that such a scheme might perhaps eliminate the possibility of strategic objections on the part of Japan.
Mr. Straight added, for my strictly confidential information, that there existed an agreement, as yet unfulfilled, which the Japanese had concluded with an American revival of this agreement group in 1905 regarding the South Manchurian Railway. would be far from welcome to the Japanese, who were therefore gravely handicapped as against the Americans.
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