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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer
"DEVANHA,"
Arrived Hongkong on 21st Nov., 1912. FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDYESDAY, NOVEMBER 27′′¤, 1918
CHINESE LOAN DISPUTE.
PUBLICATION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE.
The correspondence respecting the Chinese loan negotiations was published on the 20th uit, as a Parliamentary Papor [Cd: 6448]. The series of 57 communica- tions opane with & leiter to the Foreign Office from Lord Balfour of Burleigh (dated January 24, 1912) intimating on behalf of the Eastern Bank that they are members of an international syndicate to finance loans for the Chinese Government and requesting that their participation may be noted in case of an international loan being arranged. In a letter from the Foreign Office to Lord Balfour of Bur leigh under the date (March 14), the following passages occur:—
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His Majesty's Government and the other Governments. concerned have, from tho experiance of past years, came to the unanimous conclusion that, both in the interests of their own franciors-and-invest- ing public, and also as a safeguard of China's credit, it is incumbent on them to prevent, as far as lies in their power, all possibility of a return
the former dangerous policy of urprofitable interna- tional competition in China, which only enabled the Chinese Government to obtain money without adequate guarantees, and rendered it impossible for the Governments interested to exercise the necessary control. over the terms of any loans.
Hin Majesty's Government feel therefore that they are under obligations not only to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, but also to the Governments and financial groups concerned in these advances, not to give their support to any other group in negotist- : ing with the Chinese Government any loan
until the large loan, out of which these advances and the expenses of reorganization are to be covered, has been successfully negotiated, and, above all, until the security on which it is to be issued has been definitely settled.
Meanwhile before this letter had boon received by the Eastern Rank the Peking agents of that corporation and of Mesare. J. Henry Schröder & Co., Mr. H. Lawson, and Major Menzies had, in conjunction with their Belgian and French associates, arranged a lono for £1,000,000. Despite the repeated representations of the bank, the Foreign Office refused to instruct Sir J. Jordan, the British Minister in Peking, to receive the customary notification of the Chinese Government.
THE CRIB GYNDICATE,
The Foreign Office, in the various letters and telegrams which followed, showed that it felt bound in the first place not to support any negotiations
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR BIGK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godawaatside the Six-Powers Group, and, in the Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo
From London, &c., er s... "Mantan"
and "Himalaya." From Persian Gulf, ex 8.8. B. LAN,
and B. & P. 8. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed here smless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours.
Goods not cleared within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me In any case whatever,
Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consignes and the Company's. Surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD and Douglas, at 10 A.M. on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here. after which date they cannot be recognised No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns,
THE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Steamship
n
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consigneos before NooN TO-DAT requesting it to be
landed here.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 28th Nor. will be subject
to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 28th Nov., at 9.33 a
second place, not to support any loan pro- jeeted which did not provide guarantees for the proper expenditure of the money. The first mention of the Crisp loan appears in a despatch dated August 23, from Sir Edward Groy to Sir J. Jordan. This despatch is as follows:
Mr. C. Birch Crisp, a member of the London Stock Exchange, called at this department to-day and stated that a syndi- cate which he claimed to represent was negotiating a loan, of £10,000,000 with the Chinese Government. The syndicate was, he said, composed of Lloyds Bank, the London County and Westminister Bank, and the Capital and Counties Bank, and the negotiations were being conducted with the Fepresentative of the Chinese Republic in London, Mr. Low Yuk-lin.
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Sir Edward Gray. then informed the British Minister that he was in communi- cation with the Crisp syndicate with a view to stopping the execution of the agreement. On September 10, the follow ing was forwarded to Sir: J. Jordan by Sir Edward Grey
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As
the indemnity, and its reorganization was essentially an international matter. security for a foreign lean the property transfer tax had value except for
SHO
advertising purposes. -
On September 23, Sir Edward Grey informed Sir J. Jordan:
A representative of Mesara. C. Birch Crisp & Co. called at this Department to-day, and stated that the prospectus of the first part of the loan of £10,000,000 to the Chinese Government was about to be
The presont position of his Majesty's Government in the matter of loans to China, and their obligatione towards the other Governments and the six-Power consortium, were explained to Mr. Crisp, and he was
Mr. C. Birch Crisp called to-day by H. W. D. SHALLARD, informed that his Majesty's Government appointment at this office in connection with Acting Superintendent. did not consider that China was free to the proposed loan of £10,000,000 to the borrow outside the consortium until the Chinese Government, referred to in my Hongkong, 21st November, 1912.
repayment of the advances made by the despatch of the 23rd nit. Mr. Crisp was SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC CO, LTD. latter had been duly provided for. It was received by Mr. Gregory, of the Far Eastern issued to the public. Messre, Crisp's
GOTHENBURG.
also explained to Mr. Crisp that, as a matter Department, and confirmed the statement representative said that this notification. of general principle, his Majesty's Govern-contained in Me Law Yak-lin's noto of the was rude in pursuance of the undertaking ment would never support a loan concluded 4th inst., that the loan in question had been given by Mr. C. B. Crisp that he would not without adequate guarantees for the control definitely conslided. Mr. Gregory pointed issue the prospectus without giving previous of the expenditure of the proceeds and out that Mr. Crisp had acted in defiance of notice to the Foreign Office. The ander- "CEYLON,"
without proper security. The fact that the the declared policy of his Majesty's Govern- taking in question would appear to be that having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby six-Power consortium, with the full wipport ment, which had been made perfectly clear reforred to in my despatch of the 10th inst. informed that their Goods, with the exception of the respective Governments, had so far to him on his previous visit to the Foreign Mr. Crisp, however, then engaged not merely of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, ara being been unable to obtain satisfactory terms in Office. Mr. Crisp admitted that this was to issue no prospectus, but to proceed no landed and stored at their risk
into these respects from the Chinese Government so, but said that he know that the public further in the matter of the loan without the hazardons and/or extra hazardous rendered it very improbable that a syndicate was prepared to take up the loan, and that previous netice to this Department. The Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon without the same experience and unsup- he did not see how his Majesty's Govern- present notification seems to indicate that Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence ported by any foreign Government could ment could prevent the transaction being Mr: Crisp bas in the wetnwhile made the
meet with a greater measure of success.
carried through. Mr. Gregory replied that necessary arrangements for underwriting, delivery may be obtained.
To a telegram giving the gist of this his Majesty's Government were not, of and has completed all other proparations for despatch and a second (dated August 30) course, in a position to put pressure on the the issue of the lean; it can therefore announcing that a loan to China of syndicate interested in the loan, but they scarcely be regarded as fulfilling the under- £10,000,000 was being negotiated by the could put considerable pressure on the taking which he was understood to have Chinese Engineering and Mining Com Chinese Government, and would not hesitate given. It must indeed baro boon clear to pany, who were informed by the Foreign to do so at once. Mr. Gregory inquired Mr. Crisp that that undertaking, if it was Office in the same sense as Mr. Crisp, Sir whether Mr. Crisp would prefer to see the
to have any value for this Department, must J. Jordan replied on September 3:--
whole influence of the six Governments necessarily provide for the notice being to enable his Chinese have made fresh overtures to the thrown against the loan, or whether he given in suficient time six groups for loan of £20,000,000, stipulat would he prepared himself to cancel the Majesty's Government further to consider ing that terms must not be such as to impair agreement and provent un open conflict. the position, and to take such action as their administratire authority or to excito After consideration, Mr. Crisp admitted they considered necessary, before the definite popular alarm. This is understood to imply that it would be foolish to proceed with the issue of the load rendered any further steps some modified control of gabelle. Chinese loan in the face of the active hostility of futile.. are, in my opinion, more likely to accept the six Governments, and he therefore proper conditions of security and control at proposed the following procedure, which Mr. the hands of the six groups than from any Gregory promised to submit to me: Ile individual group of lenders, and intter's would postpone the issue of the loan and only chance of success seems to lie in their would undertake not to proceed further with agreeing to relax terms. Given equal terms, it without previous notification to the Ou the 8th inst, the six groups would be preferred, because Foreign Office; he would issue no prospectus; Mr. Ginnell (Westmeath, N., Nat.) they have command of the market, and, he would cause no reference to be made to asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs salt being practically the only available the agreement in the Press, and would whether, since Russia and Japan had no security, its reorganization must, on account
refuse aug information as to its existence money to lend to China, he would say in of indemnity claims, be an international if applied to. Mr. Gregory could not say respect of what interests they were ad- whether I should be satisfied with this mitted to the financial group for provid- solution, or whether I should demand that ing China with money now called the New day Mr. Lew Yuk-lin, of the the Chinese Government should cancel the Six-Powers Group; and, if the interesta Chinese Legation, informed Sir Edward agreement. He would, however, subunit the in question comprised designs upon Chi
neso territory or restriction upon China. Groy that under instructions from his proposal to me as it had been made. Government, and in fulfilment of a pre- In a telegram next day Sir Edward in any part of her territory, he would liminary agreement signed at Peking on Grey asked the British Minister to state the extent of the design or restric July 12 last, he had signed on the 30th persuade the Chinese Government to tion, whether Great Britain concurred in alt. a definitive agreement with a finan-disavow the action of their agents in this enforcing it, and how it was reconcilable integrity and independence of cial group, represented by Messrs. C. B. transaction, which, in view of the formal China.
It was clearly desirable Crisp & Co., for a loan of £10,000,000, engagements into which the Chinese Sir E. Grey secured upon the unhypothecated portion Government have entered with the that all the Powers interested in the of the Chinese salt gabelle. On September groups, Sir Edward could not believe stability of China should be in agreement was conducted by their authority. If in the matter of a loan so as to avoid as they refused the Minister was instructed far as possible individual lending in re- to inquire how they could maintain their tarn for special concessions which might attitude to be consistent with those have been of a political or territorial naturo and Russia and Japan, who are engagements.
In his reply Sir J. Jordan said:- close neighbours of China, could not pos I told Kirton that transaction seemed to sibly be excluded from considerations of me impracticable, and that I was bound to this kind There has been no question, in Balt revenue, as at present any of the conditions proposed to China. oppose it. administered, was insufficient to meet even of any designs on Chinese territory or
independence.
All Claims must reach us before the Iat Dec., or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be anuntersigued by the Undersigned.
ARTHUR NILSSON & CO., Agents.
140 Hongkong, 21st November, 1912.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
S.S. SIBERIA," FROM SAN FRANCISCO VIA JAPAN PORTS AND MANILA
THE above-mentioned Vessel having arrived,one: Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified to send in their Bills-of-Lading for enunter- signature and take immediate delivery of Cargo from alongside. Cargo impeding discharge will bo landed immediately at Consignees' risk and Cargo remaining on board after THURSDAY, 28th inst at Noon, will be landed at Consignees Tisk and experSE.
expence.
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Cargo remaining undelivered TUESDAY, 3rd Deo, at NOON, will be subject to landing and storage charges.
No Claims will be entoriained for outage or damage unless packages have been examined prior to delivery and list of exceptions furnished Consignees
No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected, All chafed and otherwise damaged Cargo will be examined at the above Company's Godown MONDAY, Dec. 2nd, 1912, olberwise they will not be recognised.
FRED. J. HALTON,
Agent. Hongkong, 26th November, 1912
(23
PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT SIGNED
9, Sir J. Jordan telegraphed -
Minister of Finncer informed the repre- sentive of one of the groups yesterday that he had just learnt that late Minister of Finance had without his knowledge can cluded negotiations with London bank through Chinese Minister in London for loan of £10,000,000; he was accordingly telegraphing to Chinese Minister warning latter not to sign agreemert.
The correspondence ends with definite telegraphed instructions on October 10, from Sir Edward Grey to the British Minister to decline to place the Crisp loan on record.
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