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CHINA RAILWAYS,
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12 MAY 10
[April 19.]
SECTION 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, April 19, 1910.
Mr. Lincoln,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can state on what grounds His Majesty's Government supported the Imperial Japanese Government in their vetoing or effectually preventing the construction by a British firm of a railway from Chinchow via Taonan-fu and Tsitsihar to Aigun on the Amur; and if he is aware that, due to the attitude of His Majesty's Government, the financing of this railway passed to a large extent out of the hands of the British firm, and the rolling-stock and railway material, which was to have been entirely constructed in this country, is now to be so no longer, and the British share in the orders for material has been diminished by a sum computed at not less than 500,0001., which would have found work and wages for a large number of people in this country.
Answer by Mr. McKinnon Wood (for Sir Edward Grey).
I assume that the hon. Member has not read the answers given to previous
the paper. questions on this subject, or he would not have put this question upon have nothing to add to previous answers.
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