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This Document is the Property of His Eritannic Majesty's Go 4810

RECO [January 27.] Rroo18 FEB 10

CHINA RAILWAYS,

CONFIDENTIAL.

[3094]

No. 1.

SECTION 2.

Mr. C. S. Addis to Sir F. Campbell,-(Received January 27.)

Dear Sir Francis.

Hong Kong and Shanghue Bank, 31, Lombard Street, London, January 26, 1910.

I ENCLOSE copy of a letter which I received this morning from the Germans, together with my reply.

I hope you may approve what I have written with regard to the alleged support of the British Government in the Kinchow-Aigun negotiations.

I also enclose copy of Ilillier's telegram to-day with reference to the tenders for rolling stock on the Hankow-Canton, advertised in the Chinese native press.

Copies of both letters and telegramis have been sent by me to the French as well as to the Germans.

Enclosure in No. 1.

Papers communicated by Mr. C. S. Addis.

(1)

Yours, &c.

C. S. ADDIS.

Deutsch-Asiatische Bank to Mr. C. S. Addis.

Dear Mr. Addis,

Berlin, January 24, 1910. ALL the newspapers report, and a telegram of Mr. Cordes in Peking confirms, that a preliminary agreement between the American syndicate represented by Mr. Straight and the British syndicate Pauling, on the one part, and the Chinese Government, through the Yuchuanpu, the Duke Tsai Tse, and the Wai-wu Pu, on the other part, has been arrived at, according to which the Chinese will borrow from the American an amount of 50,000,000 taels for the construction of a railway from Kintschow to Tsitsihar, which is to be built by the Pauling syndicate.

Our information goes as far as to say that the negotiations are supported by the American and British Governments, and under such circumstances, considering your close connection with your Foreign Office, we presume that your bank is interested in the new business.

We shall be glad if you will be able also to let us have our share in the trans- action.

Hoping to receive a favourable reply, we remain, &c.

(2.)

Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, (Per pro Nissem),

REHDERS.

Dear Herr Rehders,

Mr. C. S. Addis to Herr Rehders.

January 26, 1910. IN reply to your letter of the 24th January, the preliminary agreement for the Kinchow-Tsitsihar-Aigun Railway loan of 10,000,000l., signed by Mr. W. D. Straight, representing the American syndicate, and Lord Ffrench, representing Messrs. Pauling and Co., of the one part, and by the Viceroy of Manchuria, of the other, was, I am informed, ratified by the issue of an Imperial elict on the 20th instant.

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