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CLANA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
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Rre 21 APK 10
[April 4.]
SECTION 2.
Question asked in the House of Commons, April 4, 1910.
Earl Winterton,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the arrangement come to between Great Britain and Russia in 1899 regarding railway concessions north of the Great Wall and in the Yang-tsze Valley referred to concessions only; and, under these circumstances, in what way can that arrangement regulate the attitude of His Majesty's Government regarding the proposed Chinchow-Aigun Railway, which China proposes to build by contract and for which no concession of any sort is being given,
Answer by Mr. McKinnon Wood (for Sir Edward Grey).
There is nothing in the agreement referred to in the question which affects the right of China to build what railways she pleases for herself, but there is an under- standing on behalf of Great Britain not to seek on behalf of British subjects or others any railway concessions in this region. I cannot, therefore, select such railways as a suitable field for diplomatic interference on the part of His Majesty's Government.
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