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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[December 20.]
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Sir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-Received December 20.)
(No. 74. Very Confidential.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Tokyo, December 20, 1909. WITH reference to telegram No. 198 of the 18th December from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, I have just been informed by Count Komura that this afternoon a proposal was submitted to his Excellency on behalf of the United States Govern- ment by the American Ambassador for the internationalisation of all railways already constructed, or which may in future be constructed, in Manchuria.
I was informed by his Excellency that he had not had time to make a careful study of the proposal, but he said he would at once let me know as soon as the Cabinet had arrived at a decision.
"They are asking us to internationalise," his Excellency added, "what is our own property, acquired by us at the cost of much treasure and many lives."
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