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Late and bad government is one
Extract of March 17th from Mr. Boot I
learnt that the Viceroy's rejoinder was that he had
telegraphed I.P. on March 15th regarding
following alternative proposals as he
but need not go into
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1.
China to borrow money from the British and
Chinese Corporation and any financiers but
not to construct herself: the
railway to be security for the loan and any failure to
repay capital or interest to give the Corporation
control of the accounts;
Kaiping to raise money and
build the line ShanHaiKwan through the Corporation
His reply ignored the
Agreement and the request contained in the WaI Wu telegram of February 23rd, and merely attempted to
transfer negotiations to Peking.
Sir Edward Nathan