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Telegram from Sir J. Jordan, Peking, to Foreign Office
No. 118, dated June 22nd, 1907.
Hupei Loan. My telegram No. 112 of June 17th.
German Consul at Hankow has called on the Taotai
and has asserted, on the score of the proposals made
in 1905 (see my telegrams Nos. 164 and 199 of 1905),
the prior rights of the Germans to the loan.
The French bankers are it seems willing that the
British and Chinese Corporation should appear as the
lender but the French Government objects to this course.
There seems no prospect of successful result unless
some arrangement can be made for the elimination of
the French name.
It is possible that the Viceroy may be trying to
use this incident as an excuse in order to back out
of his engagements to His Majesty's Government.
The following is confidential.
Casenave has
proposed to his principals that the French should not
appear in the Agreement respecting Hupei in return for
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