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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
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[June 1.]
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CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No. 204.) Sir,
Sir Edward Grey to Sir F. Bertie.
M. CAMBON to-day spoke to me again about the Chinese loan.
Foreign Office, June 1, 1911.
He said that he had explained to Count Benckendorff that the Russian Government ought to be satisfied with an assurance that railways would not be included in its objects; and that it was futile for them to press the French to withdraw on any other point, as the withdrawal of the French would not prevent the loan from being made.
I told M. Cambon that I had spoken to the United States Ambassador as I had intended. From the information which had reached me, it appeared that in the programme of the first instalment of the loan no railways were included, there being nothing but industrial enterprise apart from railways in Manchuria.
I am, &c.
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