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CHINA RAILWAYS.
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[August 13.]
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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 13.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
BURMAH-YUNNAN Railway.
Peking, August 13, 1908.
I would suggest that the British and Chinese Corporation should not be approached on the subject of the loan as proposed by the India Office, according to your telegram No. 108 of the 11th instant, until I have laid the matter before the Wai-wu Pu, and obtained, if possible, their general acceptance of the suggestion. Mr. Bland is at present absent from China, and I do not think that the discussions with the Chinese Government, which are bound to be prolonged, will have resulted in a settlement before he returns.
It should be borne in mind that though they might agree to the proposal in principle, the Chinese will certainly insist on retaining perfect freedom as regards the selection of the intermediaries through whose agency the loan is to be raised.
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