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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[January 13.]
SECTION 3.
[1596]
(No. 22.)
No. I.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir A. Nicolson.
(Telegraphic.) P.
Foreign Office, January 13, 1910. PLEASE refer to your conversation with M. Isvolsky on the Chinchow-Aigun Railway, as reported in your telegram No. 15 of the 14th instant. The account of the circumstances as given in my telegram No. 2 of the 3rd January will, I trust, convince his Excellency that, considering the manner in which the question developed, the omission to consult the Russian Government at an earlier date was a natural, though regrettable, one. You might put it clearly to M. Isvolsky that this omission is solely due to the fact that a British firm, acting quite independently of us and in conjunction with the American financial group, began by applying for the Fakumen line, a railway which would affect Japanese interests alone. The opposition which the Japanese showed to this rendered the scheme abortive, and it was not till after its failure that the English firms, co-operating with the same American group, extended their application to the line now under discussion.
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