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REGS 18 FEB 14.
Paking,
January 21, 1914,
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9 FEB 1914
3ir,
In my despatch No. 8 of the 8th instant, I had the
honour to report on a proposal made by the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bunk for relieving the Vinancial situation of the
Canton Province by an internal loan to be issued through
the quintuple Group.
The scheur drum up by lir. Hillier was subsequently
rejected by the Canton Goverment on the ground that the
conditions as to control were too rigorous, and attempta
were made to raise a loan, without safeguards, from an
independent British source. These attempts also proved
unsuccessful.
On the lộth instant His Majesty's Consul-General
at Canton, after consultation with the Governor of Hongkong,
submitted by telegraph for my consideration a proposal of a
different kind. The Chinese in the Colony of Hongkong
were able and willing, it appeared, to comm to the areistance
The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Gray, Bart., K.G., M.P.,
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