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agreement Mr. Wei Han, the managing director of the Chinese section, would be appointed to act as the Chinese delegate, and it was arranged that the discussion should take place at Canton with a delegate of the Hong Kong Government and His Majesty's consul-general.
I shall be glad if your Highness will inform me whether Mr. Wei Han can now be empowered to conclude a joint working agreement, and at what date he will be authorised to commence the negotiations with the Hong Kong delegate and His Majesty's consul-general.
Sir,
The favour of an early reply is requested.
I avail, &c.
W. G. MAX MÜLLER.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
Prince Ch'ing to Mr. Max Müller.
March 19, 1910.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir John Jordan's despatch of the 14th February, in which he states . . . (Quotes despatch).
The board communicated with the Board of Posts and Communications, and they have now replied as follows :---
"As it is clearly laid down in the Cauton-Kowloon Railway Loan Agreement that the director-general should arrange an agreement for the junction of the Canton section of the railway with the Kowloon section, we must accordingly observe the loan Mr. Wei Han, the agreement and appoint an official to negotiate the matter. managing director of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, has therefore been appointed by telegraph to take the matter up at once. In due course he will appoint a date to meet the representative of the Hong Kong Viceroy and open negotiations in respect to the junction of the two sections. We beg that you will notify the British Minister in
this sense.
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I have the honour to communicate the above for your Excellency's information.
I avail, &c.
Prince CHING.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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Mr. Mae Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 3.)
(No. 318.) Sir,
Peking, September 15, 1910, THE Board of Trade Journal of the 28th July last (p. 187) quotes a report from His Majesty's consul at Dairen to the effect that an agreement regarding through- freight rates has been concluded between the South Manchurian Railway Company and the Chinese Eastern Railway authorities in St. Petersburgh.
In a despatch from the acting British consul at Harbin, dated the 30th August, 1910, copy of which I have the honour to enclose, Mr. Sly states that he is informed that no agreement regarding goods traffic has yet been arrived at, but that negotiations between representatives of the companies concerned are now proceeding at St. Petersburgh.
As regards passenger and baggage traffic, two agreements are now in force
between-
(a.) Places on the Chinese Eastern and Ussuri Railways and places on the South Manchurian Railway and in Japan.
(b.) Places on the Chinese Eastern and Ussuri Railways and places on the South Manchurian Railway.
Mr. Sly understands that the intention is to extend similar facilities to places on the Russian Government railways, but that the arrangement has been delayed owing to the introduction of new passenger rates on the Trans-Siberian route.
As the agreements in question refer solely to the business relations between the Russian and Japanese companies, and do not indicate any alteration in the existing passenger and baggage tariff, I do not forward copies of these documents.
I have, &c.
W. G. MAX MÜLLER.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Acting Consul Sly to Mr. Max Müller,
(No. 26.) Sir,
Harbin, August 30, 1910. REFERRING to Mr. Parlett's despatch No. 44 of the 5th ultimo to Sir Claude MacDonald, copy of which was forwarded to you, I have the honour to enclose herewith copies of two agreements which are now in force in regard to passenger and baggage traffic between--
1. Places on the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Ussuri Railway and places on the South Manchurian Railway and in Japan; and
2. Places on the Chinese Eastern and Ussuri Railways and places on the South Manchurian Railway.
The intention is to extend, similar facilities to passenger and baggage traffic to places on the Russian Government railways; but the arrangement has been delayed owing to the introduction of new passenger rates on the Siberian route, and will not, therefore, so I understand, come into force before next month.
As regards goods, my information is that no agreement of the kind mentioned in the enclosure to Mr. Parlett's despatch has so far been reached, and that the whole subject is now under discussion at St. Petersburgh. The Japanese representatives at the conference which is being held there are: Mr. Y. Kinoshita, engineer, tratfie manager of the Japanese Imperial Railways; Mr. Aoki, engineer, Japanese Imperial Railways; Mr. Katabe, freight department, Imperial Japanese Railways; Mr. Tanaka, traffic manager, South Manchurian Railway; Mr. Shoji, interpreter, South Manchurian
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