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and settled. As a result Mr. Jamieson addressed His Britamic
Majesty's Minister, Peking, by telegraph, and on the 28th. Septem- -ber Kr. Jaies on informed me that he was in receipt of a telegram from Sir John Jordan to the effect that the Wai Wu Pu had promised to send telegraphic instructions to the Provincial Authorities on the subject. On the 4th. of September Ir. Lo, Secretary for Foreign Affairs had an interview with the Colonial Secretary on the subject of the Wong Kam expedition.At the close of it ir...
Severn, on my instructions, represented to Mr. Lo that the Green Island Cement Company was incurring heavy loss, owing to the en-
-bargo on its supply of limestone, for which a claim would in due
course be lodged against the Canton Goverment. Mr. Severn told Mr. Lo that it was unreasonable to stop the supply suddenly even if it had been found that the quarriers had been committing irregulari -ties, for which the Company was in no way responsible.
7.
Under date of the 2eth. September Mr. Jamieson forwarded to me copy of a Lelorandum, copy enclosed, which he had addressed to the Tu Tu on this subject. In it he explains the
reasons for which the Company are unable to obtain limestone from certain quarries from which its export would apparently be un- -objectionable, and urges that a quantity of 37,000 tons of stone quarried prior to the publication of the new regulations concern- -ing the quarrying of stone and actually loaded ready for export, should be allowed to be exported. Nothing has resulted from this and previous representations. I attach a précis of these regula- -tions. Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Company inform me that the con- -tractors from whom they purchase their stone are quite prepared to comply with them.
8.
On the 16th. October the Green Island Cement Company made urgent representations to me to the effect that their stocks of finished cement were almost exhausted and that they were in grave danger of losing their best connections which would pass into the hands of Japanese and French competitors. I there- -fore addressed a telegram of which a paraphrase is enclosed to His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking. I attach paraphrase
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