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PEOP Rec 20 MAR 09
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Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J. Jordan, No. 48, dated
March 18th. 1909.
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With reference to your telegram No. 63 of March
16th. in regard to the Hankow-Canton Railway Loan, I am
informed that Berlin group telegraph, in reply to an
inquiry as to whether their Agent at Peking Mr. Cordes
had received instructions for the suspension of his
negotiations with the Chinese Government, that he has
been directed to withhold his signature of the Final
Agreement until they again communicate with him.
information contained in the final paragraph of your
telegram, above referred to, would therefore seem to
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be correct, and it would appear in the circumstances
that we are justified in at once formally reminding the
Chinese Government that we consider the undertaking of
February 13th. as binding and expect them to give ef-
fect to it. Pray do so, if you agree in this view.
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