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them to arrange matters, and the Wai-wu Pu now requests that the representatives of the banks may be notified to negotiate the matter satisfactorily direct with the Board of Communications.

We have accordingly been requested by our respective legations to place ourselves in communication with your Excellency's board for the purpose of discussing, within the terms prescribed by the identic note of the 13th July, the formalities necessary for the definite completion of the two agreements referred to, and we have therefore now the honour to ask that your Excellency will be good enough to appoint an early. date upon which we may be accorded an interview,

We have, &c.

(For the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation),

E. G. HILLIER, Agent.

(For the Banque de l'Indo-Chine),

R. SAINT-PIERRE,

(For the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank),

H. CORDES.

(For W. D. Straight, agent of the American group),

D. A. MENOCAL.

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

CHINA RAILWAYS.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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Mr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 16.)

WITH reference to the telegram to the Viceroy of India of the 2nd July and

Peking, August 26, 1910. your telegram to me of the same date, authorising me to communicate to the Chinese Government the Indian survey reports for the proposed Bhamo-Tengyuch Railway, [ have the honour to state that I have now been supplied for this purpose with the two following documents :----

1. Bhamo-Tengyush (Momein) Railway Project. Report by Mr. A. R. Lilley, dated the 5th January, 1907; and

2. Tengyuel-Tali-fu Bailway Survey. Report and Estimates by Mr. Lilley, dated the 5th September, 1907.

I have transmitted these reports to the Wai-wu Pu in a memorandum, copy of which I have the honour to enclose herewith, and have expressed the hope that the Board of Communications will now be enabled to take up the question of the construction of this line at an early date.

I have, &e.

(In the absence of His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires), ERNEST SCOTT.

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Enclosure in No. 1,

Memorandum communicated to Wai-wu Pu by Mr. Max Müller.

THE Board is aware that for some years past the question of the construction of a railway from Bhamo to Tengyueh, with a subsequent extension to Tali-fu, has been frequently discussed with this legation, and that at the last interview Mr. Max Muller had with the Board on this subject it was agreed that the Indian Government should be asked to communicate to the Chinese Government any surveys or reports made by their engineers.

The Indian Government were accordingly telegraphed to, and two volumes of reports and estimates have now been received, which Mr. Max Muller has the honour to forward for transmission to the Board of Communications, who, it is understood, have stated that they would be glad of an opportunity to examine auy such reports.

Mr. Max Müller hopes that the receipt of these reports will enable the Board of Communications to take up at an early date the question of the construction of the above line.

Peking, August 25, 1910.

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