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Reel 20 MAR 09)
Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J. Jordan, No. 44, dated
March 12th. 1909.
Hankow-Canton Railway Loan.
of March 12th.
Your telegram No.59
The German representatives explained at a meeting
which took place to-day that their agent had concluded
the Preliminary Agreement under a misunderstanding,
that they earnestly desired to rescind, if possible,
the terms agreed to, and hoped that in this the support
of the British and French Ministers would be accorded
them. A draft was submitted by the British and Chinese
Corporation arranging that the three Syndicates should
issue all railway loans on equal terms, and, with re-
gard to the control of the funds, on conditions not in-
ferior to those of the Canton-Kowloon loan, the three
groups in rotation to nominate the Chief Engineer. The
British representatives claimed however that in the
case of the Hankow-Canton and Pukow-Sinyang lines the
Engineer should be British and that this last stipula-
tion should not apply.
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