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COPY OF MEHORANDUM RECEIVED BY J.P.MORGAN & CO. FROM .W.STEVENS

PEKING, TRACKS TO AND IMPROVEMENT OF CANTON HARBOUR.

galled "Canton-Jankow Railroad". Project.

If negotiations for the completion of the so-called "CANTON- Hankow Railroad" ever get under real way, the above mentioned subject will become important and must be dealt with frankly by the Consortium Groups and their respective Governmenta.

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(1) As a matter seriously involving the security of the prospective Bondholders, (2) as a matter of justice to China, especially Bouth China, and (3) as a matter in which American and ether foreign commerce is very much concerned, I intend in such negotiations to urge as a part of the "CANTON-Hankow Railroad" plan, the construction (or at least the right by China to construct at any time) of any and all tracks desired extending from the existing railroads at Canton to points on the Canton River. may well be wondered, what possible basis for objection will any ene offer to this: and I hope to be surprised by learning that there will be none; but a rather old and seldom heard of treaty between Great Britain and China, below mentioned, seems to Chinese of prominence to have had this very subject in mind and to have contemplated the prevention of such tracks; and such prevention would greatly delay, if not actually prevent the long proposed improvement of Canton Harbor, as the same must necessarily be

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I have here no copy of the old treaty referred to and do not recall its phraseology. It was made about the time of the building of the Kowleon railroad; and China put restrictions upon herself to the general effect that she would never build tracks that would divert traffic from the Kowloon railroad; and tracks to points on the Canton river to reach vessels would so divert traffic.

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