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CONFIDENT I A L.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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Government House, m 10
Hongkong, 31st. March, 1910.
I have the honour to draw Your
Lordship's attention to certain documents in the Parliament
-ary Blue Book C. 9131 *Correspondence respecting the
Affairs of China" (China No. 1 of 1899) which show that the
Kowloon-Canton Railway was a concession demanded from China
as an indemnity for breach of faith with regard to the
Peking-Hankow Railway and that in 1898 negotiations were
already in progress for the connection of the Kowloon-
-Canton with the Canton-Hankow line. The papers to which I
specially refer are Nos. 314, 323, and Enclosure 3 (XI) in
No. 459.
2.
Your Lordship will also find in
the paper printed for the use of the Colonial Office marked
*Eastern No. 91 Confidential" an allusion to a preliminary
agreement dated the 28th. March, 1899, entered into between
Sheng,
Director-General of the Imperial Chinese Railway
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREVE,
Administration
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