XLII
(Pamsaran) & Celegram)
MB3.14. Chary's d'Affairs.
Peking
12.18.706.
Your talegram of yesterday.
You Suggest would Chuirs
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"To Governor Houging
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an only too well aware that tha uitenests of the Hong Kong Government and of the Corporation an not identical, and they will lose no opportunity of playing our off against the other with a saw to causing delay.
fairly free hand is not givin to Bland his chances of concluding a loan agrement in
If
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reasonabla lūną an hoor. I could unform the wai-wa-pu as you Suggest but they would either refuse to ague or reman's silaut, and if Bland's urgotiations failed he could fairly use the Communication
To ask as an excuse for his failure. the Chuissa ungotiators to accept the February draft working agrement in pruiciple would be useless if
as seems probable the loan agraurent kunst be radically different from the February draft.
·Cannot a
draft working agreement be pmpared and discussed with the Viceroy when the basas of the loan agrement an settled hare.
Cornagia.
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