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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
RECE Rroe18 JUN OS
[March 27.]
SECTION 3.
[11698]
(No. 70.)
No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received March 27.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
HANKOW-CANTON Railway loan.
Peking, March 27, 1909
The statement mentioned in your telegram No. 55, and which is supposed to have been made by Bland, is a mere excuse for refusing to withdraw, and is, he assures me, entirely without foundation Ife is informing the German agent to this effect.
I consider the situation very grave, and that our interests in the Yang-tze valley are seriously threatened.
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