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CHINA RAILWAYS.
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JUEGR RES12 MAY 10 [April 25
SECTION 2.
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No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, April 25, 1910.
Earl Winterton,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact that His Britannic Majesty's Government was a consulted and consenting party to the Anglo-German Financial Agreement of 1898, as included in the Blue Book, No. 1, of 1899; and whether the same financial agreement was formally and specifically recognised in the subsequent Anglo-Russian Convention which embodied the principle of spheres of influence regarding railway concessions in China.
Answered by Mr. McKinnon Wood (for Sir Edward Grey),
I have explained the nature of this agreement in my reply to a previous question by the noble Lord on the 13th instant. His Majesty's Government were consulted and assented to the agreement between the two financial groups concerned, but it never became an agreement between the two Governments. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative.
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