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Mr. Allen (Shanghai),
25th October, 1938.
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W/T
27th October, 1938.
R.
5.25 p.m.
27th October, 1938.
No. 1530. (R).
IMPORTANT.
Shanghai telegrams Nos. 1469 and 1497 and Canton telegram
No. 223 to Shanghai.
An official letter has been received from British and
Chinese Corporation as trustee for bondholders, requesting that
the Japanese Government, and, if His Majesty's Ambassador
considers it necessary, the Chinese Government as well, may be
reminded of British rights and interests involved in Canton- Kowloon Railway by virtue of loan agreement of 1907 and debt settlement of August 26th 1936. Article 3 of this loan agreement stipulates that security for Canton-Kowloon Railway loan is revenue of all descriptions derivable from railway as well as "all land, materials, rolling-stock, buildings, property and premises of every description purchased or to be purchased for railway and railway itself as and when constructed" and
Article 7 paragraph 7 of the same agreement states that railway with its appurtenances shall not be injured.
Original amount of the loan was one million, five hundred thousand pounds of which sum about one million, one hundred and eleven thousand pounds and scrip one hundred and eighty-eight [?] thousand two hundred and sixty-five pounds is outstanding.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 1530, repeated to Tokyo No. 980, Hongkong No. 288 and Canton No. 108.
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