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KEGY & JUN 09
Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J. Jordan, from Sir E.
Grey, No. 106, dated June 4th, 1909.
Railway loan.
Please see your telegrams 100,.
101 and 102.
In the circumstances described we concur in the
agreements being signed at once. The elimination,
however, of the British and Chinese Corporation in
whose neme the agreements were concluded with the French
and German group, and with whom there is under nego-
tiation a general agreement for railway business in
China, has a very unfortunate appearance. At Berlin
and Paris where so recently assurances have been given
that the Corporation had in this case the exclusive
support of His Majesty's Government, it must bring
about a serious loss of prestige for the British group.
You should endeavour to keep Liang to his promise
described in your telegram 102 of the 4th instant.
We must do our best to prevent the elimination of the
Corporation from having the effects outh in China and
in
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