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

CO 23539

RECS

CHINA RAILWAYS.

RAF18 JU 11

CONFIDENTIAL.

[June 6.]

SECTION 1.

[22000]

No. 1.

Sir,

Messrs. Pauling and Co. to Foreign Office.~(Received June 6,)

26, Victoria Street, London, June 6, 1911,

I HAVE the honour to request, in view of Lord ffrench's return from St. Petersburgh and of the letters exchanged by him with their Excellencies the Russian Minister for Finance and the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs† there dealing with a proposed alternative route for the Chenchow-Aigun Railway, that His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will be good enough to grant Lord ffrench a personal interview at his early convenience, for which we shall be very much obliged.

I am, &c. (For Messrs. Pauling and Co., Limited),

J. M. SCOTT, Secretary.

* See in 19355.

[2076 f-1]

Not communicated to Foreign Office.

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