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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA RAILWAYS,
CONFIDENTIAL.
463
[January 29
SECTION 3,
4 APR 10j
[3306]
No. 1.
Sir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received January 29.) (No. 11. Confidential.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
AIGUN Railway.
Tokyo, January 29, 1910.
Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs informed me yesterday that, having learnt of the opposition shown by the Russian Government towards this railway (see Sir A. Nicolson's telegram No. 25), the Japanese Government were of opinion that an altogether new situation had been created, and that the matter would now have to be considered by the Powers concerned on a new and, as he thinks, more complicated basis.
Provided that none of the Powers object to the railway, Japan is willing to waive her objections and to participate in its construction. In view, however, of the Russian objections, Count Komura thinks that the matter must be taken into fresh consideration.
Speaking with the Russian Ambassador, his Excellency informed me--and as to this there can, I think, be no doubt-that the American proposal to internationalise the lines in Manchuria had had the effect of bringing about a much closer entente between Russia and Japan.
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