CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 191

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA RAILWAYS.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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[March 29.]

REG 18 JUN 10

SECTION 1.

Mr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received March 29.)

(No. 60.) (Telegraphic.) P.

Peking, March 29, 1910. ACTING under great pressure, the Board of Communications has replied to petition mentioned in decree of the 30th January by a minute authorising the establishment of a Hupei company to collect the capital necessary for the line. In the event of the final signing of the foreign loan agreement it seems to me likely that a condition of affairs will be created similar to that which followed the establishment

of the Provincial Railway Bureau for the Shanghae-Ningpo line.

(See my despatch No. 51 of the 15th February.)

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